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Women's Suffrage Lesson Plan

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This unit explores the Women's Suffrage Movement in Arkansas through the use of primary and secondary sources. Students will read newspaper articles and pamphlet excerpts to understand the goals and history of the movement. A list of various activities related to original primary and secondary resources allows teachers the flexibility to choose parts of this lesson plan to use and adapt as needed.

This lesson plan was produced for 6^th grade, 7^th grade, and 8^th grade students, but may be altered by teachers to fit other grade levels.

Suffrage Or No Suffrage, Kayla Peterson

Curriculum Unit on the Gilded Age in the United States

This lesson focuses on the Women’s suffrage movement, which was started during the Gilded Age (1865-1900). By studying and learning about this movement, students will begin to grasp how much was changed during and by the women who continually fought for equality and rights. In this lesson, students will learn the thoughts and thinking of the time period by analyzing primary documents from the era. By studying this information, students will, hopefully, start to really understand and and realize how different our world today would have been different if these women never stood up and fought for their rights.

The Ursinus Weekly, October 25, 1915, Leroy Fritsch Derr, George Leslie Omwake, John Wentworth Clawson Jr.

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Reserves defeat Allentown Prep • Ursinus Music Society formed • Suffrage bell here • Sublunary reflections •. Literary societies • On the campus • Fatal automobile accident