Gretchen Storey

Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

Les Cheneaux Community Schools

Library of Congress Lesson Plan

June 27-29 Workshop Women and the Right to Vote!

Gretchen Storey

Cedarville High School

Lesson Overview: Women obtained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

The Womens' Suffrage Movement began in 1840, but if finally built momentum during the

Progressive Era, with leaders such as Alice Paul Lucy Burns, Carrie Chapman Catt, and

Woodrow Wilson. Many saw women as inferior and opposed equal suffrage. In this lesson,

students will analyze various primary sources, leading up to the equal suffrage amendment.

Some questions to think about during this lesson: How were women portrayed during this

era? What would some consequences be for women in fighting for equal suffrage? Why

would some be opposed to equal suffrage?

Objectives:

Students will be able to:

Analyze political cartoons illustrating differing viewpoints on Womens Suffrage.

Analyze and Discuss pictures, political cartoons, and newspaper headlines to gather

conclusions about womens political plight during this era.

Use a variety of sources to write a newspaper editorial on the justification of equal

suffrage.

Standards:

USHG 6.3.2 Progressive Movement, the National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eugene Debs, W.E.B.

DuBois, role of reform organizations, movements and individuals in promoting

change (e.g., Woman’s Christian Temperance Union,1 settlement house movement,

conservation Uptain Sinclair, Ida Tarbell).

Gretchen Storey

Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

Les Cheneaux Community Schools

USHG 6.3.3 Women’s Suffrage - Analyze the successes and failures of efforts

to expand women’s rights, including the work of important leaders (erg., Susan B.

Anthony, Elizabeth Candy Stanton) and the eventual ratification of the 19th

Amendment.

Civics 6.1.1 Identify and research various viewpoints on significant public policy

issues.

Time Required:

2 Class periods

Recommended Grade Level(s):

High School

Topic(s):

U.S. History

Civics/Government

Womens' Studies

Era:

Progressive Era

1910-1920

Modern American Emerges

Preparation:

Materials:

Printed Pictures from Library of Congress for small groups/partners

Resources:

See attached Resource Table.

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Gretchen Storey

Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

Les Cheneaux Community Schools

Procedure: Activities

Review what the word “suffrage” means with students.

Use Political Cartoon “By Popular Demand” Right to Vote, as a whole group activity/warm up. Put on smartboard or overhead, go through the cartoon, explain

objects, symbols, captions. Have students complete a quick write on the following:

“ Do you think the message of this cartoon supports or opposes equal suffrage?”

Explain. 5-10 min. Ask a few students to share.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-

bin/query/i?ammem/suffrg:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a51845)):displayType=1:m856sd

=cph:m856sf=3a51845

Model/Review how students analyze pictures. Each pair or small group will analyze two

pictures or cartoons. They will use the rest of the pictures/cartoons on the resource

sheet to analyze. They will use analysis sheet provided. This will take about 15 minutes.

Each group will share inferences they have made and two questions to find out more about

this era and/or primary source. I will remind students to break each source into

quadrants when analyzing it. This way they will not miss important objects, people,

items, or captions. Students will turn in completed evaluation sheets to check for

understanding after sharing with the class.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Primary_Source_Analysis_T

ool.pdf

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Political_Cartoons

.pdf

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Photographs_and

_Prints.pdf

Womens' Suffrage Primary Source Collection Link:

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage/

Final task will be a writing assignment for evaluation.

Gretchen Storey

Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

Les Cheneaux Community Schools

Extension Activities:

Read Newspaper Article on Alice Paul and Hunger Strike in Jail. Discuss as a class or

research more on Womens' Equal Rights Movement during this Era.

HBO Film Iron Jawed Angels. View portion of film. Class discussion or journal

opportunity comparing characters in the movie to primary sources found in the Library

of Congress.

Evaluation: Students will complete a writing assignment. They will write an editorial for the

Washington Post (1915-1920). They will be evaluated by using rubric from ACT prep website.

CRAFT Writing Prompt:

You are an individual in favor of Equal Suffrage during the late 1910's and you are writing

an editorial to the Washington Post. You are trying to convince anti-equal suffragists why women deserve the right to vote and why there should be a national amendment supporting

equal suffrage.

Rubric:

http://www.actstudent.org/writing/scores/guidelines.html

Gretchen Storey

Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

Les Cheneaux Community Schools

Resource Table

Image Description Citation URL

Newspaper Article

of Alice Paul describing force

feeding.

“Alice Paul Describes

Force Feeding.” London,

England: December

1909. From the Library

of Congress, Miller

NAWSA Suffrage

Scrapbooks, 1897-

1911.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbcmil.scrp6014301

The first picket line - College day in the

picket line

LC-USZ62-31799

(b&w film copy neg.)

Library of Congress Washington, D.C.

20540 USA,

February 1917

http://www.loc.gov/pi

ctures/item/975002

99/

Men looking in the

window of the National Anti-

Suffrage Association

headquarters.

Library of Congress

Prints and Photographs

Division Washington, D.C.

20540 USA

LC-USZ62-25338 DLC

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ite

m/97500067 /

Votes for Women: Selections from

the National American Woman

Suffrage

Association Collection, 1848-

1921 The Woman

suffrage year book

Library of Congress, Rare Book and

Special Collections Division, National American Woman

Suffrage Association

Collection.

The Woman suffrage

year book 1917-

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v/cgi-

bin/query/r?ammem/

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ER+@od1(rbnawsa+n7

468))

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Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

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Billboard Campaign of the National Women's Party

Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of

Congress,

Washington, D.C.

http://memory.loc.gov/

cgi-

bin/query/r?ammem/m

nwp:@field(DOCID+@li

t(mnwp000345))

The sky is now her

limit

Political Cartoon, Women's Suffrage

Cartoon showing a woman carrying

buckets on a yoke,

looking up at ladder ascending up to the

sky, bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery,"

and "Shop Work."

Illus. in: New York times current

history; a monthly

magazine. New York : New York

times company, 1920 October, p.

142.

http://www.loc.gov/pi

ctures/item/200271

6769/

Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's

Opposition to Woman Suffrage,

October 1916]

Women of Protest: Photographs from

the Records of the National Woman's

Party, Manuscript Division, Library of

Congress,

Washington, D.C.

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v/cgi-

bin/query/r?ammem/

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Cedarvill High School

Social Studies

Les Cheneaux Community Schools

By Popular Demand:

"Votes for Women"

Suffrage Pictures,

1850-1920

Library of Congress Prints and

Photographs Division

Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

reproduction number,

LC-USZ62-110212

http://www.loc.gov/pi

ctures/item/975002

26/

Votes for Women Broadside.

Women's Political

Union

Library of Congress,

Rare Book and Special Collection Division, NAWSA

Miller Scrapbook Collection

1897-1911;

Scrapbook 9; page 33

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