When+Esther+Morris+Headed+West+Reinforcement+Activity

__**Objective: **__ Students will be able to identify leaders of the Women Suffrage movement and what they achieved by researching various leaders of the movement.

__**Materials:**__ -Book //When Esther Morris Headed West// //-//Class computers

__**Procedures: **__
 * 1) Read //When Esther Morris Headed West// with the entire class.
 * 2) Students will be placed in groups. Each group will be assigned one of the following leaders of the suffrage movement:
 * 3) Alice Stone Blackwell
 * 4) Carrie Chapman Catt
 * 5) E.C. Stanton
 * 6) Frances Willard
 * 7) Jane Hunt
 * 8) Julie Ward Howe
 * 9) Lucy Stone,
 * 10) Mary Church Terrell
 * 11) Mary White Ovington
 * 12) Nora Blatch
 * 13) Each group will research their suffrage leader answering the following questionsHave the class come back together again. Have them share their findings with the entire class. Discuss the impacts the students see today from the lives of these women they investigated. These connections will show why Social and Civil Rights group like the women's movement still impact our lives even if they are in the past or dead. This discussion will answer the question of why studying historical events and people is of interest today.
 * 14) What is their background?
 * 15) What vocation did they have?
 * 16) Why did they decide to work towards women suffrage?
 * 17) What individual or public goals did they achieve or attempt to achieve within their specific movement?
 * 18) What actions did they do in order to try to meet their goals.
 * 19) Have students present what they learned to the class. Broden the discussion to civil rights movements today and what actions people are still taking to achieve equality.

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