Suffragists and Their
Tactics
Suffragists and Their Tactics
Teacher's Guide |
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ACTIVITY
ONE (1 class period): Primary Source Analysis - Photos
ACTIVITY TWO
(1 class period): Primary Source
Analysis - Parades, Picketing, and Cartoons
ACTIVITY
THREE (1 class period): Primary Source Analysis - Evaluating Broadsides
ACTIVITY FOUR (2 class periods):
Primary Source Analysis - Suffragists' Arguments
ACTIVITY
FIVE (20 minutes): A Historian's Perspective: One
Hundred Years toward Suffrage
Evaluation
- Students will study and analyze graphic and print primary source materials.
- Groups will take part in active discussions about the readings and
the role of women in the suffragist movement.
- Students will design and create broadsides which depict the challenges
of the suffragist movement. Use this rubric
to evaluate the broadside.
Extension
- Explore the collections
"Votes
for Women" Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920 and Votes
for Women: 1848-1921, to find out more about these women, their
arguments, and their strategies;
- Compare and contrast the
American and British suffragist movements;
- Apply the tactics used by
the suffragists to a controversial issue in your community; or
- Examine a similar social
movement (the Progressives, the anti-Viet Nam war movement) in terms
of its arguments, tactics, and goals.
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