CRITICAL ISSUES HERSTORY"
OUTLINE:
I. Interpreting
Editorial Cartoons
II. Articles
for Discussion
a "Why men sometimes feel
they'd rather have the extra rib.tm
b. "Life behind the Vail."
C. "India: Till Death Do Us Part.
d. "Brazil: Crimes of Passion."
e. "Israel: Agony of The Agunot."
f. ·Asia: Discarding
Daughters."
g. "Look Out, It3s
Superwoman'tm
III. Looking
Back
a. A timeline of women's history
b. Declaration of Sentiments
IV. Women in
the Know Crossword
V. Rachel
Carson, influential American
VI. Women in
Literature
VII. Famous
Female Authors
VIII. Who1s Who in Women's Literature
IX. Women's
History Quilt Project (30 pts.)
X. Women's
History Badge Project (70 pts.)
XI. Women's
History Crossword Review
XII. Gender
Debates
XIII. Final Test
REPRODUCIBLE PAGE
Women-in-the-Know Crossword
by Carol Smaliwood
Complete the following crossword puzzle about women.
Across Down
1. Alice _______ gave many
speeches and helped 2. Joan of _____,heroine
of France
women
get the vote in 1920. 4. Priscilla ______
appears in Longfellow's "The
3. This woman helped many slaves
escape to the Courtship
of Miles Standish."
North
before the Civil War. 5. Molly _________ became
a legend because of her
8. This first lady drafted the
"Universal Declaration bravery
in the Revolutionary War.
on
Human Rights" for the United Nations. 6. First woman elected
governor in 1975 in Con-
9. She was the first black woman
elected to necticut.
Congress.
She ran for President in 1972. 7. Indian friend to early
settlers, saved John Smith
11. Feminine pronoun 10. Margaret ________ wrote
Coming of Age in Samoa
13. Jane _______ studied how
chimps communicate in
1928.
with
one another where they lived in Africa. 12. Maggie _______________
became a leading black
15. Acronym of a leading women's
organization bank
president (1867-1934).
founded
by Betty Friedan in 1966. 14. Abigail ________ was a
President's wife whose
16. First black woman to become a
United States letters
are in museums.
Presidential
advisor
17. State where the author of
Little Women was born
18. Early leader of feminism,
head of the National
Woman
Sutfrage Association
Educational Oasis, IsSue 34. Mar~/Ap~.,1992 ~ Good
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WOMENS' HISTORY BADGES
*Students will interpret contributions of women in
American history.
*Students will design and create a badge/pin/button
that is representative of the contributions and significance of a woman in
American history.
MATERIALS:
Construction paper and/or tagboard
Sissors
Colored pencils, markers, crayons
Safety pins or straight pins
Reference materials pertaining to the women listed
on the attached page. Library
access may be necessary.
Students will research a famous woman in American
history. They will determine the contributions that the woman gave to society.
Students will then interpret the contributions in the form of a
badge/pin/button that will be worn by the student on an assigned day. The
purpose of the activity is to create an awareness of famous women in American
history and their contributions to our country. Students are required to wear
the badge throughout the day and share with other students and teachers the
significance of the badge and the woman they researched.
At the end of each class hour, students will need to
obtain their teacher's signature on the sheet of paper provided. This is to
verify that they wore the badge in that class.
Signatures may not be obtained until the end of the class period. Each
signature is worth 10 points.
Assignment points = 70
Brazil: Crimes of killed. the man's
defense is
always
the same: she was
PassIon seeing
somebody else."
The mountainous southeast- There are encouraging signs. em ~tate of
Minas Gerais is however, that the
old ways of
commonly known as the terra
Brazilians are changing. Worn-dos
mac/zoes, or land of the en's groups in Rio de laneiro machos.
"Here. if a man sleeps are
mobilizing to bring public around with other women, it's a pressure on the justice system. sien of
masculinity," says Earlier
this year, a Belo HonElaine Matozinho. a police- zonte man was sentenced to 19 woman in Belo Horizonte.
"But years for killing his
wife. "Thines if a woman is an adulteress, it's have got better," says Sandra a different story: she
pays with Lima of the
Confederation of her life."
Brazilian Women. "but thev
are
During
the past 20 years, still far from
ideal." U
the murder or beating of
women by their husbands
or bo'~riends was so common an occurrence that k~~ima defesa do
ho,zra (legiti- ~ mate defense of honor)
became a popular and tolerated legal defense. National murder statistics
are not tracked by
. sex, but according to Matozinho. in Belo Ho- . rizonte
(pop. 1.5 million) 24 women are killed each year by husbands or
boyfriends. Many more cases go unreported. Most of the assailants are
never con- FEMINISTS MARCH
victed. "Regardless of the real
reasons she was
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in Brazi~?
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in Ni na-~ Ger I a-~?
~re the-c men pun i -hed?
Diary
Project Outline
Idea: Student
will pick one woman from a list of famous women in history. They will write as
if they are that person in a diary.
Criteria: Diary
needs to have a least 5 entries, each being at least 2 paragraphs long. The
entries should be important dates involving the person that they choose. For 3
of the 5 entries, students must use a visual aid. This can be a picture, model,
sketch, diagram, etc...
Grading: Students
will be graded in the following categories:
Neatness
Creativity
Required Elements
Effort
Work Time in Class Project is out of 50
points.
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Women
in History Speech Outline
Idea: The
students will have one week to research a famous woman in history. They will
pick from one of
the
following people.
· Eleanor
Roosevelt
· Mother
Teresa
· Margaret
Thatcher
· Anne
Frank
· Marie
Curie
· Julia
Child
· Ruth
Handler
· Oprah
Winfrey
· Lucille
Ball
· Marilyn
Monroe
· Nancy
Brinker
· Princess
Diana
· Amelia
Earhart
· Hellen
Keller
· Jackie
Kennedy
· Shirley
Temple
· Wilma
Rudolph
· Billie
Jean King
· Elizabeth
Taylor
· Coretta
Scott King
· Sandra
Day O'Connor
· Sally
Ride
· Dolley
Madison
· Judy
Garland
· Aretha
Franklin
· ClaraBarton
· Maria
Tallchief
· Grace
Kelly
· Carol
Burnett
· Barbara
Walters
· If
the students have any other women that they would like to use, they may.
Criteria: The
speech must be at least 3-5 minutes long. The must include biography of their
life, how they have changed history, and at least 3 visual aids. These can be
sketches, pictures, diagrams, etc...
Grading: The
students will be graded in the following categories: Organization, Originality,
Effort, and Criteria. The project will be worth 40 points.
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WOMENS' HISTORY DEBATE
*Students will discuss and debate the issues of gender.
*Students will analyze and evaluate their points of
agreement and disagreement.
Stage a classroom debate. Divide the class according
togender.
1. Have
the girls agree on five traditionally male-dominated occupations that they
might like to practice when they grow up. See if the boys can present valid
reasons why the girls could not participate in the occupations they choose.
Have the class debate the issue.
2. Have
the boys in the class agree on five occupations they think the girls cannot
practice. As the boys present their reasons, have the girls rebut. Discuss the
points of agreement and disagreement.
3. Repeat
the exercise above. This time, have the girls present five occupations they
feel the boys cannot practice. Can they present valid reasons for exclusion on
the basis of gender?
Asia: Discarding searcher at Delhi University. Studies show that female chil- meals than males. In rural China Those permitted to be born dren in India and Bangladesh when food is scarce, anthrnpol~
Daughters may not survive into adulthood Oarde
breast-fed for a shorter peri- gists
report, girls are more likelv
because
of deliberate neglect. and
given less nourishing to
suffer from chronic malnutri
""' here arc many
ways to kill tion
than their brothers.
U baby girls. Feeding them The demographic impact is
poisonous
oleander bcrries, ~
~ dramatic: in South
Korea,
smothering them in
their after- where fetal testing to
determine
birth or just not feeding
them sex
is common. male births ex
are among the ancient methods ceed
female births bv ~4%,
still in use in some rural
parts I in
contrast to a worldwide aver-
of Asia. where baby boys have age
of 5%. In Guangdong prov
always been preferred. Nowa- ince.
the China news aeenc,
day~s technology also plays a ji Xinhua reported. 500.000 bach
role: fetal testtng
procedures, elors
are approaching middle
such as amniocentesis and son
~
f age
without hopes of marrvtne.
ocrams. are employed by wom-
I
~' because
they outnumber worn-
· en in China. Korea. India and en
ages 30 to 45 by more than
· elsewhere to detect the sex of a ~ 10
to I. Alarmed by such imbal
fetus, Manv mothers will abort ances.
some governments have
a female. "Over the pa~~t ccntu- taken
steps to limit the use of
~' ~cience has only quickened amniocentesis
as a prelude to
the pace of the death of the female
feticide. Asian nations
fcmale child. from the horn to also
hoped to influence parents
the unborn stage." says Meenu FEMALE
FETUSES ON DISPLAY by
designating 1990 the Year of
Sondhi. an amniocentesis re- the
Girl Child.
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40 TIME,
FALL 990
~s I
1. Uhat
are ~ome 0+ the method-~ u~ed to kill
bab',' g I r l
2. 1+ ~i rl S survIve, do the', have a stronq chan~e
+or survival 1 ater on? LJh>~- or ~h>' not?
Uhat e++ect is this havinq on the population in I
a?
4. Has
~sia tried to stop this.-' Ho~?
CRITICAL ISSUES
"HERSTORY"
FINAL TEST
'Mark the letter of the best answer to the questions below.
Good Luckl
1. Women1s movement is born at this convention in
1848.
A. Philadelphia C.
New York City
B. Seneca Falls ID.
Women's Suffrage
2. Year
of the first National Women's Convention.
A. 1993 C.
1920
B. 1850 D.
1989
3. Many
women became employed by the federal government in the 1 93~40s because of the
influence of this woman.
A. Madonna C.
Eleanor Roosevelt
B. Elizabeth Blackwell D.
S. B. Anthony
4. The
first American woman in space.
A. Sally Ride C.
Christa M~uIiffe
B. Sandra Day O1Conner D.
Harriet Tubman
5. The
first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
A. Sandra Day O'Conner C. Elizabeth Dole
B. Harriet
Beecher Stowe D. Shirley
Temple Black
6. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
A. Harriet
Beecher Stowe C. Shirley
Temple Black
B. Georgia
O1Keefe D.
E.C. Stanton
7. Lead
the Lewis and Clark expedition.
A. Sarah Winnemucca C. Sacalewea
B. Harriet Tubman D.
Pocahontas
8. Lead
the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
A. Sally Ride C.
Rosa Parks
B. Harriet Tubman D.
E.C. Stanton
9. Maker
of the first American flaQ.
A. GIcria Stienham C.
Rosa Parks
B. Dorthea Dix ID.
Betsy Ross
10. First
woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean.
A. Amelia Earhart C.
Dorothea Lange
B. Sally Ride ID.
Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Only
woman to seek election as Vic~President of the U.S.
A. S.B. Anthony C.
Geraldine Ferraro
B. Elizabeth IDole ID.
Jean Kirkpatrick
12. ~Angel
of the battlefield," founder of the American Red Cross.
A. Jane Addams C.
Margaret Mead
B. Clara Barton ID.
E.C. Stanton
13. Organizer
and leader of the "underground railroad."
A. Harriet Beecher Stow. C. Gloria Stienham
B. Harriet Tubman ID.
Geraldine Ferraro
14. First
female ambassador from the U.S.
A. Shirley Temple Black C.
Elizabeth Dole
B. Geraldine Ferraro ID. Mary
Harris Jones
15. First
Lady of the United States and one of the top 100 lawyers in the country.
A. Gloria Stienham C.
Hillary Clinton
B. Tipper Gore ID.
Billie Jean King
