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Voices for Votes - Suffrage Strategies
Overview
Students examine a variety of primary source documents related
to the women's suffrage movement. They identify different methods people
used to influence and change attitudes and beliefs about suffrage for
women. Students then create original documents encouraging citizens to
vote in current elections.
| Objectives |
While completing this project, students will:
- examine a variety of primary source documents to learn about the history of suffrage for women;
- learn that there are many ways to influence and effect change;
- understand that it took the efforts of many people over time for women to gain the right to vote; and
- use their knowledge from studying the suffrage movement to create modern day election ephemera.
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| Time Required |
Four 45 minute instructional periods
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| Recommended Grade Level |
4-6 |
Curriculum Fit |
U.S and/or State History
Civics, Citizenship and Government
Integration of Technology into Curriculum
Language for information, understanding, and analysis
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Standards |
McREL 4th Edition Standards & Benchmarks
Historical Understanding
Standard 2. Understands the historical perspective
Language Arts
Standard 4. Gathers and uses information for research purposes
Standard 6. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
Standard 7. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts
Standard 9. Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
US History
Standard 29. Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties. |
Resources Used |
American Memory
Other Internet Resources
Books
- Corey, Shana. You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia
Bloomer. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000.
- Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie
Stanton? New York: Putnam's, 1995.
- Hakim, Joy. Reconstruction and Reform.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Hakim, Joy. War, Peace, and All That Jazz.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Hodges, Elaine Prater. Seneca Falls: Achieving
Women's Rights (Volume 12 - Teaching With Primary Sources Series)
Chicago: EPH Productions.
- McCully, Emily Arnold. The Ballot Box Battle.
New York: Knopf, 1996
- Sullivan, George. The Day the Women Got
the Vote: A Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement.
New York: Scholastic, 1994.
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