Teacher Names: Evangelia Ifantides, Maryann Mahoney and Barbara Zenker School : Bryant Adult/Alternative High School Subject Area: History and Family Consumer Science Grade/level: HS

Lesson Plan Template

based on Understanding by Design by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

Title of Lesson

Women Who Changed History

Unit Topic

Impact of women on US political and social issues “We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place—or not to bother.” Jane Goodall

Enduring Understanding What are the big ideas that have value beyond the classroom? What are the core processes at the heart of the discipline?

As a result of this lesson, students will understand:

• Women and their developing roles as leaders in the social and political arena

• Women as role models • The impact these women had on the average woman of their day • The impact these women had on future generations

Content Knowledge What specific content knowledge will students acquire as a result of this lesson?

As a result of this lesson, students will know how to:

• Use the Library of Congress site as a research tool • Use the Internet • Learn about different era periods and the impact of women during

that time • How one person or group of women changed governmental policy

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Skills What are the specific skills developed by this lesson?

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

• Identify women as leaders and their impact on history. Students will learn about their lives, adversity, accomplishments and legacy.

SOLs addressed History and Social Science: VUS.14

o Compare how work life is affected by families and how families are affected by work life

o Demonstrate an understanding of your place in the family,

community, and world

o Identify life changes that impact a life management plan

o Evaluate societal conditions affecting individual, family, and community well being

History and Social Science: GOVT. 17, GOVT. 18

o Identify ways to be a responsible citizen at home, at school, at work, and in community settings

o Analyze the value of work ethic in relation to personal and family

principles and goals

Length of Lesson Approximately how long will this lesson take?

Two weeks

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Overview of lesson. Briefly summarize the lesson.

The Power of One: How one woman’s passion led to reform and justice for others. Research an influential woman or women’s group – one from each decade -- 1900 – 2000

Prior Knowledge Are there specific knowledge or skills the students must have before they begin this lesson?

• Basic research skills in using the computer • Summarization skills • Report format if report required • PowerPoint if required

Resources needed Books? References? Audio/Visual Material? ***please include copies of hand-

outs ***

Library of Congress Resources with title and permanent URL Bold an image to be used on the cover page of the lesson. http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/rosie.html

Other resources

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Process of lesson Explain how lesson will unfold. Write this section so that another teacher could follow your instructions. Be sure to include a hook or warm-up and student performance tasks.

Beginning with 1900 students will research a woman who contributed most to that decade. For Example: 1900 - 1910 -- Suffragettes 1910 - 1920 -- Margaret Sanger 1921 - 1930 -- Amelia Earhart 1930 - 1940 -- Eleanor Roosevelt 1941 - 1950 -- Rosie the Riveter 1951 - 1960 -- Rosa Parks 1961 - 1970 -- Jacqueline Kennedy 1971 - 1980 -- Gloria Steinem 1981 - 1990 -- Sally Ride 1991 - 2000 -- Antonia Novella

Evaluation How will you know that the lesson was successful? Describe what type of student assessments you will use to evaluate understanding. Include the criteria you will use or attach rubric.

• Take a digital picture of yourself – insert in a poster – describe that

time period and how you would bring about change.

• Keep a first-person diary or journal as an advocate of a particular cause and living in that era.

• Create a poster and present to class “A day in the life of . . . .”

• Write a letter to a fellow advocate and bring her up to date about

progress regarding your common cause.

• As a reporter for a newspaper, interview a famous person at an important event pertaining to her cause.

• Be one of the advocates and give a persuasion speech to your

class regarding your cause and why you believe it is important.

• Compose an essay -- In this decade, what cause would you advocate: environment, school related issues, politics, health, rights for immigrants, etc.

• Compose an essay -- What do you have in common with any of

these women.

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• Compose a paper comparing/contrasting the following women or groups OR create a dialogue between the following:

• Any suffragette, Gloria Steinem and Rosa Parks • Margaret Sanger and Antonia Novella • Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride • Eleanor Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy • Rosie and Riveter and Iraqi War wives or other female

family members

Extension Activities What further activities might be done to increase student understanding on this topic?

• Read an autobiography or biography about the person • Use the Internet, make a timeline pertaining to events occurring

during the specific decade • Find pictures of the time period • View a Movie about the person, period or event • View TV accounts (if available) 20th Century by Mike Wallace

(CBS), PBS documentaries, The History Channel and FCPS Video Library

Possibilities for Differentiation How can this lesson be adapted for different learners or different classes? (Honors, Special Education, English as a Second Language)

The student can empathize with a person of any decade – big or small cause and relate it to his/her own experience. The evaluation assignments are adapted for a variety of learning styles. Teacher and student will work together to select the evaluation assignment that best suits the student’s abilities.

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Sites for Women Who Impacted History Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a52000/3a52700/3a52783r.jpg 100 Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html Susan B. Anthony Supports Women's Suffrage Amendment http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded/susanb_1 Susan B. Anthony – Super Sleuth game http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/sleuth.cgi?action=mission&level=1&mission=1

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a30000/3a30400/3a30477u.tif Margaret Sanger – Birth Control Poster and paper http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=awh_rbcmisc&fileName=awh/awh0004//rbcmiscawh0004.db&recNum=0 Women's Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger and Jane Addams Event Date: March 24, 2003 cybercast http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/womenact/

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/earhart Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/womenswords/earhart.html Amelia Earhart picture http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a22000/3a22000/3a22092r.jpg Official Amelia Earhart Web site http://www.ameliaearhart.com/

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt, biography http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9463366&search http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/smahady/ercover.htm Eleanor Roosevelt, picture with FDR http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00185125)) Eleanor Roosevelt, picture http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/presp:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c08091)) Eleanor Roosevelt, Profile in Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html

Rosie the Riveter

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/rosie.html Rosie the Riveter Poster http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_rosie.htm

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience - December 1, 1955 http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/parks_1 Rosa Parks Picture http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c09000/3c09400/3c09426r.jpg Headline from the Montgomery Advertiser, December 6, 1955 http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_3_e.html

Jacqueline Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy, biography

http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9428644&search= http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html Jacqueline Kennedy, Field Museum exhibition, Chicago http://www.fieldmuseum.org/jkennedy/ Jacqueline Kennedy, Arlington Cemetery http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jbk.htm Jacqueline Kennedy, picture http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/presp:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a53361)): Jacqueline Kennedy, picture with Lyndon Johnson http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/pin:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsc+02881))

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Awards and Honors (Library of Congress). Gloria Steinem, picture http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/03600/03684u.tif Gloria Steinem, Interview with Feminist.org http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/interviews/gloria.htm Gloria Steinem, Quotes – might to have to pick and choose http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/gloria_steinem.html

Sally Ride

Sally Ride biography http://www.loc.gov/about/awards/legends/bio/ride.htmlhttp://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html

Thrust into Space: How the Space Program Changed Brevard County A Local Legacy http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/fl/space_1

Antonia Novella

Antonia Novella, biography http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9425582&search=anornia+novella

http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=1

What do you think these women are saying or thinking?

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/suffrg:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a52979))

What do you think Margaret Sanger is going to say to these young people?

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Exhibition/eg23.jpg

What do you think Amelia Earhart and this man are saying or thinking about?

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00185173))

What do you think George Washington Carver and Eleanor Roosevelt are discussing?

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?fsaall:25:./temp/~ammem_wsVT::displayType=1:m856sd=fsa:m856sf=8d18639:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aaeo,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,cdn,cic,cwnyhs,cwar,consrvbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mffbib,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,afc911bib,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,upboverbib,varstg,horyd,hawp,suffrg,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,awh,awhbib,sgproto,wright

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8b02904))

What do you think these women are saying or thinking?

What do you think Rosa Parks was thinking as she was getting fingerprinted?

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0119s.jpg

What do you think these former first ladies are talking or thinking about?

http://www.ehistorybuff.com/jackie_mamie_sp.html

What do you think was said to Gloria Steinem that made her smile?

http://images.quizilla.com/B/belladonnalin/1063932546_ia_steinem.jpg

Your comment here.

What do you think Sally Ride was thinking when she looked out of the window of the

space shuttle, Challenger, for the first time?

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110163/images/sally%20ride%202.jpg

What do you think her alumni directory would say about her?

University of Puerto Rico – 1965

Antonia Novello

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.educatingjane.com/images/nvllo.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.educatingjane.com/Study/medicine.htm&h=283&w=195&sz=22&tbnid=bQD3ziKnV7YJ:&tbnh=110&tbnw=75&hl=en&start=29&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dantonia%2Bnovello%26start%3D20%26svnum%

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RUBRIC – ORAL PREPORT WITH VISUALS

Elements Possible Points Available Points Earned CONTENT Concepts are accurately presented

15

Supporting details are used to help explain concepts

15

Vocabulary is appropriate to both content and audience

10

Visuals including pictures, photographs, etc., are used to support the presentation

15

Clear beginning, an organized body and clear closure

15

THE PRESENTATION Voice quality is clear, distinct and enthusiastic

10

Positive humor is used appropriately

5

Body language: posture, eye contact, body movement

5

Attire: Neat and presentable

5

Speaker left time for questions

5

Total Points 100 ______________

RUBRIC – WRITTEN REPORT

Elements Possible Points Available Points Earned COMPOSITION Report contains: Title page, Outline, Content, and Bibliography

10

Report contains a thesis statement

10

Report is well organized and paragraphs relate to the thesis

20

The paper shows that the writer has done research. Three sources used must be from LOC sites.

20

STYLE

Sentences are coherent; ideas are clearly expressed; sentences are meaningful (not wordy) paragraphs contain a variety of sentence structures; sections are not unnecessarily repetitious

20

No more than five mechanical errors – spelling, punctuation, capitalization

10

Sources are alphabetically listed, inverted paragraph spacing (hanging indent), correctly punctuated, capitalized and in the order of established bibliographic entries.

10

Total Points 100 ______________