Assessments
Formative and summative assessments may take the form of the following: teacher observation, oral presentations using the picture notes as a visual aid, R.A.F.T. assignments, Frayer models, analysis worksheets of primary sources, Content/Process notes, teacher made assessments (tests and/or quizzes) as you deem appropriate, and the transfer task.
The culminating assessment will be the following transfer task. Each student will create an exhibit (be the curator) that would be appropriate to be displayed in a Women's Rights Convention. In addition, each student will be responsible for explaining (be the docent) all about his/her exhibit to other students who will visit the museum. Each student will have their exhibit approved by the teacher.
Teacher Resources
Remember the Ladies: The First Women's Rights Convention written by Norma Johnston and published by Scholastic in 1995 will be used in the small group activity with picture notes. If multiple copies of this book are not available to you, you should find other text material that will give a brief history leading up to the Seneca Falls Woman's Right Convention in 1848 so that students can do the pictures notes and oral presentations.
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum and published by National Geographic in 2004 is an excellent resource. If you can procure enough copies for all students, they would benefit greatly from reading it. Perhaps you could get six copies or enough for each small group to use the text.
Iron-jawed Angels is a modern film, starring Hillary Swenk, which presents a fairly accurate account of the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment. When viewing be sure to do so in segments and have students pair to share their ideas and questions.
www.ibiblio.org/prism/mar98/path.html
This site provides a timeline entitled The Path of the Women's Right Movement from 1848 - 1998. It will be helpful to both teachers and students.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
This site is to be used by the students as they do research and make decisions about the museum piece they will design as part of the transfer task at the end of the unit. This site will provide worksheets to analyze a variety of types of primary sources. Teachers may find this site helpful as it may save time because they will not have to create their own forms. Additionally, this site can be used prior to this lesson so that students have experience analyzing primary sources and researching on the web.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#15
This site will take you to the Amendments of the Constitution
Annotated Bibliography
Bausum, Ann. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006.
This book makes a wonderful text for the study of the Nineteenth Amendment. It is well written and well documented. There are a number of primary source photographs and direct quotes from people who lived and worked through this time.
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race, & Class. New York: Random House, Inc. 1981.This book provides a historical view of women and how race and class has impacted the women's movement. Davis also explores more modern day problems facing women.
DuBois, Ellen C. Feminism & Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1978. This resource provides extensive information on the background of the women's suffrage movement and provides insight into the movement's political as well as social attributes. It provides in-depth information on the early portion of the women's right movement.
DuBois, Ellen C. Woman Suffrage & Women's Rights. New York, NY: New York University Press. 1998. This book contains a series of essays that will deepen one's knowledge of the historical struggle that women faced and also presents some information on the modern day struggles still facing women.
Harvey, Stephanie & Goudvis, Anne. Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement (2nd edition). Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers. 2007. This resource is invaluable for providing a variety of strategies to actively engage students in thinking and comprehension.
Johnston, Norma. Remember the Ladies: The First Women's Rights Convention. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 1995. This is an easy to read book that is full of factual information. It can easily be used to build background knowledge quickly and clearly for students so that more time may be spent in higher order thinking tasks.
Kraditor, Aileen S. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement/1890-1920. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1965. Kraditor offers an interesting inquiry into the women's movement focusing on the relationship between the oppressed group, women, and their ways of believing and acting in order to achieve their goal. This is a very fine reference for anyone studying the movement.
Santa, Carol M., Havens, L.T., Valdes, B.J. Project CRISS: Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies (3rd edition). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 2004. This is a manual designed as a support for teachers who participate in a two day training of Project CRISS. It is full of interactive strategies to help students become independent learners. The training and this manual are valuable resources for all teachers.
Siegel, Reva. "She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family." Harvard Law Review. 115:4, February 2002. Siegel provides a comprehensible read from a sociohistorical perspective of sex discrimination law and examines the Fourteenth and Nineteenth Amendments that illuminate the political struggle in which women were embroiled at the time. She refers to this time period as a lost chapter of our history, and asserts that by finding this chapter Americans can collectively come to understand the concept of equal citizenship for women.
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