Library of Congress Lesson Plan June Workshop

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1 Library of Congress Lesson Plan June Workshop Women and the Right to Vote! Cedarville High School Lesson Overview: Women obtained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19 th Amendment in The Womens' Suffrage Movement began in 1840, but if finally built momentum during the Progressive Era, with leaders such as Alice Paul Lucy Burns, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Woodrow Wilson. Many saw women as inferior and opposed equal suffrage. In this lesson, students will analyze various primary sources, leading up to the equal suffrage amendment. Some questions to think about during this lesson: How were women portrayed during this era? What would some consequences be for women in fighting for equal suffrage? Why would some be opposed to equal suffrage? Objectives: Students will be able to: Analyze political cartoons illustrating differing viewpoints on Womens Suffrage. Analyze and Discuss pictures, political cartoons, and newspaper headlines to gather conclusions about womens political plight during this era. Use a variety of sources to write a newspaper editorial on the justification of equal suffrage. Standards: USHG Progressive Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. DuBois, role of reform organizations, movements and individuals in promoting change (e.g., Woman s Christian Temperance Union,1 settlement house movement, conservation Uptain Sinclair, Ida Tarbell).

2 USHG Women s Suffrage - Analyze the successes and failures of efforts to expand women s rights, including the work of important leaders (erg., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Candy Stanton) and the eventual ratification of the 19 th Amendment. Civics Identify and research various viewpoints on significant public policy issues. Time Required: 2 Class periods Recommended Grade Level(s): High School Topic(s): U.S. History Civics/Government Womens' Studies Era: Progressive Era Modern American Emerges Preparation: Materials: Printed Pictures from Library of Congress for small groups/partners Resources: See attached Resource Table. T:\My Documents\LOCREsourcepage.odt#LOC Citations

3 Procedure: Activities Review what the word suffrage means with students. Use Political Cartoon By Popular Demand Right to Vote, as a whole group activity/warm up. Put on smartboard or overhead, go through the cartoon, explain objects, symbols, captions. Have students complete a quick write on the following: Do you think the message of this cartoon supports or opposes equal suffrage? Explain min. Ask a few students to share. =cph:m856sf=3a51845 Model/Review how students analyze pictures. Each pair or small group will analyze two pictures or cartoons. They will use the rest of the pictures/cartoons on the resource sheet to analyze. They will use analysis sheet provided. This will take about 15 minutes. Each group will share inferences they have made and two questions to find out more about this era and/or primary source. I will remind students to break each source into quadrants when analyzing it. This way they will not miss important objects, people, items, or captions. Students will turn in completed evaluation sheets to check for understanding after sharing with the class. ool.pdf _Prints.pdf Womens' Suffrage Primary Source Collection Link: Final task will be a writing assignment for evaluation.

4 Extension Activities: Read Newspaper Article on Alice Paul and Hunger Strike in Jail. Discuss as a class or research more on Womens' Equal Rights Movement during this Era. HBO Film Iron Jawed Angels. View portion of film. Class discussion or journal opportunity comparing characters in the movie to primary sources found in the Library of Congress. Evaluation: Students will complete a writing assignment. They will write an editorial for the Washington Post ( ). They will be evaluated by using rubric from ACT prep website. CRAFT Writing Prompt: You are an individual in favor of Equal Suffrage during the late 1910's and you are writing an editorial to the Washington Post. You are trying to convince anti-equal suffragists why women deserve the right to vote and why there should be a national amendment supporting equal suffrage. Rubric:

5 Resource Table Image Description Citation URL Newspaper Article of Alice Paul describing force feeding. Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding. London, England: December From the Library of Congress, Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, scrp The first picket line - College day in the picket line LC-USZ (b&w film copy neg.) Library of Congress USA, February ctures/item/ / Men looking in the window of the National Anti- Suffrage Association headquarters. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division USA LC-USZ DLC m/ / Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, The Woman suffrage year book Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection. The Woman suffrage year book v/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ nawbib:@field(numb ER+@od1(rbnawsa+n7 468))

6 Billboard Campaign of the National Women's Party Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, cgibin/query/r?ammem/m t(mnwp000345)) The sky is now her limit Political Cartoon, Women's Suffrage Cartoon showing a woman carrying buckets on a yoke, looking up at ladder ascending up to the sky, bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery," and "Shop Work." Illus. in: New York times current history; a monthly magazine. New York : New York times company, 1920 October, p ctures/item/ / Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, October 1916] Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, v/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ mnwp:@field(docid +@lit(mnwp000288))

7 By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division USA reproduction number, LC-USZ ctures/item/ / Votes for Women Broadside. Women's Political Union Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collection Division, NAWSA Miller Scrapbook Collection ; Scrapbook 9; page 33 v/cgibin/query/r?ammem/ r002522))