1. What types of careers do women have today?
Warm Up:
What types of careers do women have today?
Write down as many as you can think of!

2. Today’s Question:
What was the role of women in the early and middle 1800s? How did the women’s suffrage movement begin?

3. Today’s Activities Notes on the role of women in the 1800s
Pictures: women in the 1800s
In groups: read about one women’s suffrage activist
Create sensory figures

4. Separate Worlds
Women were expected to be _______ wives and devoted ________ whose place was in the home. Men were expected to earn an ______ and take part in ______.

6. Legal Status
Under the law, when a woman married, she was considered the __________ of her husband.
Women were:
Denied the right to __________.
Denied ___________ opportunities, especially higher education.
Denied _________ opportunities in business.
Limited in the right to own ___________.

7. Pictures of Women in the 1800s:
You will have 30 seconds to look at your picture and write down your observations on the back!

11. Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote and hold public office

12. Early Women’s Suffrage Activists:

13. Women’s Suffrage Activists
Read the biography and answer the questions
Discuss questions with your group, make sure everyone has the correct answers—agree on 2 important facts to tell the class
Divide your group into 2. Each smaller group will create a sensory figure to describe your activist.

14. Sensory Figure:
Sensory figures are simple drawings of historical figures with descriptions of what they might have thought, seen, heard, touched, said, or felt. Each of the descriptions contains words and/or symbols and is placed near the part of the body that relates to the sense.
Make sure you have:  
Seven sentences or phrases that represent what each figure might see, hear, smell, say, touch, think, and feel (emotions).
Make sure the sentences or symbols represent important experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the character.