| Women: Struggle and Triumph
What can primary sources teach us about the lives of
American Women in the Nineteenth Century?
GETTING STARTED
Prior to beginning this lesson, the following
skill
building activities should be completed with the students. Expect
to spend one 45 minute class period on each activity. It is understood
that these skills are taught on an ongoing basis and it may not be necessary
to conduct all three activities with your students prior to beginning
this lesson. Ideally this lesson is co-taught by the media specialist
and the classroom teacher.
PREPARATION: Teacher planning (one - two planning periods)
Each group of students is provided a packet of primary
source information. These packets will provide information on a certain
category of Nineteenth Century woman.
Directions
for creating the primary source packets for each category of woman are
provided in detail on the packet sources page of this lesson.
Categories:
INTRODUCTION:
Teacher models analysis of a primary source packet.
TAKING NOTES
AND ASSIGNING PACKETS
Teacher models the use of the Objective Observation
worksheet
with an image
from the lesson and explains how the Document Analysis worksheet
is used.
TEACHER
LED DISCUSSION
Drawing conclusions about women
in Antebellum America.
WRITTEN LETTER
Use the American Memory collections to find at least
four additional primary sources that relate to a Nineteenth Century
woman and write a letter as this individual.
EVALUATION
Teacher and Media Specialist
may assess letters using a rubric.
EXTENSION
Using primary sources, students will create a
presentation about a Nineteenth Century woman.
Overview |
Teacher's Guide |
Resources |
Extension |
