The Progressives: Women's Suffrage

Agenda 2/25:

1. Students responded to the statement: Women and men are equal. The class then shared and discussed their responses.
2. Students watched a clip from the film Miss Representation [below].
3. I went over a brief background of the women's suffrage movement [below].
4. Students then went through a series of documents illustrating the debate between suffragists and anti-suffragists.

Miss Representation:


Women's Suffrage:

 

Ain't I a Woman, Sojourner Truth 1851, read by Alice Walker: