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Warm Up: Attach your new graphic organizer to your next open notebook page. This should take < 5 minutes. When you are finished, think of a definition of the word reformer and an example of one.
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colony kahoot
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Reformer Write a definition of reformer. If you aren’t sure, give it your best guess. Give one example of a person who tried to make reforms in society?
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PERSON WHO IMPROVES, CHANGES, OR MAKES SOCIETY BETTER
Reformer Write a definition of reformer. If you aren’t sure, give it your best guess. Give one example of a person who tried to make reforms in society? PERSON WHO IMPROVES, CHANGES, OR MAKES SOCIETY BETTER
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PERSON WHO IMPROVES, CHANGES, OR MAKES SOCIETY BETTER
Reformer Write a definition of reformer. If you aren’t sure, give it your best guess. Give one example of a person who tried to make reforms in society? PERSON WHO IMPROVES, CHANGES, OR MAKES SOCIETY BETTER
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HOW DID WOMEN REFORMERS BREAK GENDER BARRIERS?
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GENDER BARRIER What is a barrier? Can you think of a definition?
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GENDER BARRIER For gender barrier, it is:
An obstacle or something that prevents progress or success for a specific gender.
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Hand out Lesson Practice
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CLOSE READ THE QUOTATION BELOW:
"The men say we have no business with [politics], it is not in our sphere! I won't have it thought that because we are the weaker sex as to bodily strength, my dear, we are capable of nothing more than minding the dairy, visiting the poultryhouse, and all such domestic concerns They won't even allow us the liberty of thought, and that is all I want....” Eliza Wilkinson, letter to a female friend, 1782 10
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Eliza Questions... Sourcing: The quotation was from Eliza Wilkinson in What is the perspective and do we know if she is reliable? Close Reading: What does the writer mean when she says, “men say we have no business with politics, it is not in our sphere?” What does Eliza Wilkinson want to be able to do that she thinks men won’t allow? Contextualizing: What was happening in the colonies in 1782? Does the author reinforce or defy “accepted gender roles” for women during this time period?
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Gender Spheres : What is a gender sphere? Heck, what is a sphere? 12
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Gender Spheres : Behaviors, tasks, and responsibilities that a society considers appropriate for men and women 13
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GENDER SPHERES MEN WOMEN
What are some traditional tasks for men and women in our society?
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GENDER SPHERES MEN WOMEN Public life Politics, Work Private life
Home (domestic) Where are the above tasks performed?
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PATRIARCHY Define the term. If you know it, add it to your graphic organizer. If not, discuss w/ a friend and wait for us to come together.
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PATRIARCHY What, then, is a Matriarch?
When men hold the power in society or government and women are largely left out. What, then, is a Matriarch?
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PATRIARCHY When men hold the power in society or government and women are largely left out. What is the impact of the lives of women in a patriarchical society?
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PATRIARCHY What “tasks, chores, or jobs” are women able to do and not do during colonial America? What role does gender play in an early American woman’s life? What are your ideas, thoughts, and questions about women’s rights during this time period?
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Your job: -I will put you into groups of 1-2
-You will be assigned a picture or a document. -Each pic/doc has questions with it you will answer in your notebooks. -Be sure to do well on this, because we will go over it as a class and we need you to be the expert on your particular pic or doc.
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LESSON PRACTICE What was life like for early American women?
Close read or close view the document or picture. Source the document together. Write a 1-sentence summary. According to the document, what was life like for early American women? What are some jobs, tasks, opportunities and barriers for men and women living at this time? ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. Record your reactions and answers from the poster. Use pencil and write your initials. Does the author/artist reinforce or defy accepted gender roles for women during this time period?
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Now, switch documents with another group.
If you had a quote before, switch to a picture and vice versa. Do the same steps again.
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Day 1: WWLT? What is an example of a reformer?
What is a gender barrier? What is a patriarchy?
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Day 2: Warm UP? What is an example of a reformer?
What is a gender barrier? What is a patriarchy?
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Complete tasks from yesterday...
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Present While you listen to others present, turn to your graphic organizer and list roles for women on the 18th & 19th Century T chart. For each presenter, let’s answer the question: “Do the words or image reinforce or defy accepted gender roles for women during this time period?”
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“Women ought to have representatives, instead of being governed without any direct share allowed them in the discussions and running of government.” --Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
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“Now their separate characters are briefly these: The man’s power is active, progressive, defensive. His intellect is for thinking and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest... But the woman’s power is for routine, not for battle, and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. Her great function is praise … By her position, and place, she is protected from all danger and temptation.” John Ruskin, Lecture, 1865
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“One sex is formed for the more difficult exercises of government, the field and providing for the family. The other, for the management of the household, and for spreading happiness through social life. When a woman quits her own responsibilities, she offends her husband, not merely because she forces herself into his business but because she departs from that sphere which is assigned her in the order of society. Each sex feels a degree of pride in being best qualified for a particular position, and a degree of resentment when the other intrudes upon their rights.” Anonymous, 1788, “An Address to the Ladies,” American Magazine
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“When I took up my pen I decided to leave the field of politics to those whose proper business it is to think or theorize and to react to these boycotts and protests; but the events that have lately taken place are so alarming and so interwoven with the enjoyments of social and family life as to command the attention of the mother and the wife.” --Letter from Mercy Otis Warren to Hannah Winthrop, 1774
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“I know you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters, of those who do, and if you really suppose you can do nothing to overthrow slavery, you are greatly mistaken.” --Angelina Grimke-Weld, 1836
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"You see madam I ignore the opinion that women make different politicians. It may be true in general, but the present age has given at least one opposite example … When remarks or opinions are just and honorable, I think it unimportant whether they flow from a female lip in the soft whispers of private friendship or whether thundered in the Senate in the fearless language of the other sex." --Mercy Warren to Catherine Macauley- Richards
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QUIZ
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What’d we learn today? How are the rights of women the same or different in the 18th and 19th Centuries? What were women doing in the 19th Century that they weren’t in the 18th?
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What’d we learn today? What role does gender play in how early Americans lived their lives?
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What’d we learn today? Give examples of “gendered” language. When women write, do their words “buy into” a subordinate role or are their words defiant? How do men speak of women, as less than men, as needing protection?
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Day 3 Warm Up: Upon entering class, make sure you receive a white, laminated, “Role Card.” We will discuss.
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Let’s discuss the following questions...
Who has a task only women perform? One only men perform? Who has a task that few, if any women were allowed to do? Who has an example of a task performed in public life? Who has an example of a domestic task? Who has a job that shows power?
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Let’s discuss the following questions...
What are the differences between men and women’s spheres?
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Finish placards if need be...
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“Four Corners”
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“Women ought to have representatives, instead of being governed without any direct share allowed them in the discussions and running of government.” --Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
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“I know you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters, of those who do, and if you really suppose you can do nothing to overthrow slavery, you are greatly mistaken.” --Angelina Grimke-Weld, 1836
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In your notebooks for an assessment...
Define “patriarchy.” Define “gender roles.” In the following picture, label and explain the gender roles and patriarchy when you see it.
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In your notebooks on the next open page, answer the following four questions:
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TED talk on gender roles
#Ukraine
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3 things we learned today?
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Warm Up:
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