1. Warm Up:
Take a walk around the classroom to look at the memorials your classmates created.
What images are particularly powerful? Why?
What do you think about what happened to the Native Americans of North America?

2. How did the women’s reform movement begin?
Today’s Question:
How did the women’s reform movement begin?

3. Today’s Activities Quiz: women in the 1800s
Listen to quotes, respond from the perspective of a suffragette
Begin sensory figure

4. Women’s suffrage quiz:
You have 5 minutes to quietly read the questions and answer “true” or “false.”
This will not count as a graded quiz!

6. The Era of Reform
The first half of the 1800s was not only a time of great territorial expansion, it also brought about growth in social reform. One of the most significant movements for reform was the struggle for women’s equality. Reform: To make changes to something in order to improve it Suffrage: The right to vote

7. Early Women’s Suffrage Activists:

8. Procedure:
You will see a picture of a women’s suffrage leader. We will discuss who this person was and how she was involved in the movement.
We will read a quote by this women’s suffrage leader and talk about what it means.
We will hear an opposing quote, discuss what it means, and how this suffrage leader would react.

9. Susan B. Anthony
Leading organizer for women’s suffrage and equal rights Founded organization to promote women’s suffrage Dedicated life to inspiring other women to demand equal rights

10. “Women have enough influence as mothers and wives that they don’t need to be involved in politics. Because of their influence in the family, they are already very powerful—giving them the right to vote is unnecessary.”

11.
Sojourner Truth
Enslaved half her life before earning her freedom Testified in court and before congress on behalf of African American rights Well-traveled public speaker on such topics as women’s rights and abolition

12. “Women have delicate bodies and emotions
“Women have delicate bodies and emotions. They should not be placed under unnecessary stress or physical strain. This could overwhelm them and, ultimately, harm their ability to have children.”

13. Lucy Stone
Established women’s suffrage organization Urged states to protect women’s rights Founded women’s journal which chronicled women’s progress in politics, employment, and law

14. “The man is the wage-earner and provided for the family
“The man is the wage-earner and provided for the family. A woman who works is simply bringing in extra money for the family, and thus does not need to be paid as much as a man.”

15. Elizabeth Blackwell
First American woman physician Overcame scorn and discrimination throughout medical school career Her success as a doctor inspired first women’s medical school

16. “A woman’s most important job is caring for her family and tending to her home. To place anything above her domestic duties—a career, personal ambition, or other interests—is irresponsible.”

17. Sensory Figure:
On the left side of your notebook, create a sensory figure for a woman in the 1800s. Use pictures and labels to show the ways in which gender attitudes impacted women’s lives during that time. You should include ideas from all the reformers we heard about today.