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This section of the Teacher's
Corner contains several links to classroom activities and assignments
that use materials from the Women and Social Movements website. Please
contact us if you are using
materials from the website in your classes: we would like to highlight
your lesson plans here.
Heaven
Will Protect the Working Girl
An activity created
by Professor Tracey Weis at Millersville University using documents
from "Workers and Allies in the
New York Shirtwaist Strike." The activity asks students to
document the strike from a reporter's point of view, make recommendations
for an editorial position, and discuss the activities in small groups.
Women
in U.S. History, 1620-1865, Writing Assignment
A 10-12 page
paper assignment created by Professor Joyce Hanson at California State,
San Bernardino. The assignment asks students to write a memoir assuming
the persona of a woman living in 1859 using, in part, resources from
the following document projects: "Oberlin
Women and Antebellum Social Movements," "The
Appeal of Female Moral Reform," "The
Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement," "Bible
Communism and Women of the Oneida Community," and "Lucretia
Mott's Reform Networks."
National
Association of Colored Women, Creative Writing Assignment
Dr. Dianne Glave
at Loyola Marymount University asks students to read documents from
"African-American Women and the
Chicago World's Fair" to prepare for an in-class creative
writing assignment about African-American women leaders in the club
movement.
Equal
Suffrage?
A threaded discussion
as part of a class offered by Nancy Page Fernandez asking students
to apply what they learned about the suffrage movement and to better
understand race in American history using documents from "National
Woman's Party and the Enfranchisement of African-American Women."
Gender
and Jim Crow
A threaded discussion
as part of a class offered by Nancy Page Fernandez asking students
to apply what they learned about the political interests, problems,
and activities of African-American women before they had the vote
using documents from "African-American
Women and the Chicago World's Fair."
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