Marching+With+Aunt+Susan+Reinforcing+Activity

//Marching with Aunt Susan //Reinforcing Activity


 * Materials: **
 * Marching with Aunt Susan
 * White poster paper
 * Markers
 * Pencil
 * Paper


 *  Objectives: **

-Students will explain why voting is important. -Students will answer questions about women’s suffrage. -Students will create a sign that details why they think women’s suffrage is important.


 *  Procedures: **


 * // Exploration: //**

Start the lesson by discussing what the word “suffrage” means. Ask the students how they might feel if they weren’t allowed to do something because of their gender.

After the discussion read aloud Marching with Aunt Susan
 * // Introduction: //**

Talk about some of the things that happened in the book.
 * //Development: //**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ask the students to write about why they think everyone should have the right to vote. Discuss with the class why they think women might not have had the right to vote to begin with. Write or discuss how they think the women’s suffrage movement benefited from people working together.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Explain to the students that they are now part of the women’s suffrage movement during the same time as Bessie. They will need to create their own sign for suffrage that they could carry in a parade. On the back of the sign they need to write a short paragraph explaining what they have on their poster, and how they think Susan B. Anthony might feel if she were to have seen it
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Expansion: //**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Once they are finished, students will share their signs with a neighbor. Ask for volunteers to share their sign with the class.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Assessment: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I will observe and listen to the student’s responses in order to gauge their understanding of the women’s suffrage movement and why it was important.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Student’s signs will be collected and evaluated based on if it was completed, as well as the creativity and effort put forth.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Other standards

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Grade: 3 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strand: Government <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Topic: Civic Participation and Skills <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Content Statement: 10. Individuals make the community a better place by solving problems in a way that promotes the common good.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suffrage, Women, Gender Equality, History, Susan B. Anthony, Claire Rudolf Murphy,
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