Women's History

Students will read and analyze the two parts of Eleanor Roosevelt's radio broadcast on Dec. 7, 1941. Through class & small group discussion, students will analyze what Eleanor’s message was intended to be and how it was delivered. Students will identify the talking points and how they differ from the original broadcast. Students will consider the effect of Eleanor’s speech, being the first, to address the attack on Pearl Harbor from the White House. Students will conclude the lesson with listening to the radio broadcast and discuss how hearing her voice might change tone of the speech they read.

Students will compare and contrast First Ladies

This assignment is a technology based cooperative assignment using primary and secondary source materials to determine the role of the First Lady in United States history.

Spending time with Martha Washington to learn about the colonial era.

Using Photographs and Cartoons to teach Eleanor Roosevelt's Role as First Lady and Adviser to the President

Analyzing Eleanor Roosevelt and her role in the early civil rights movement.

Students will compare and contrast women's issues of two time periods.

The students will read about events and people significant to the women's suffrage movement in the United States. They will review documents, photographs, poems and listen to music associated with the movement. They will compose a poster using four primary source documents.

In this lesson, the students will apply their knowledge of the tactics and strategies used during the Civil Rights Movement to the movements for women's rights and Native American rights. The students will use both primary and secondary sources.

Students will conduct research to gain an understanding for where women started in American society, and as a result a better understanding of how they got to the position they are in today.