Women's History

To assist students in developing analytical skills that will enable them to evaluate primary documents and images such as photographs, political cartoons and posters related to African American women during World War II.

This lesson implements the Socratic Seminar Instructional Method to investigate Women and the Islamic Revolution.

Students research and learn about the fashion of a certain time period and identify with the personal convictions and tastes of the famous First Ladies of the past.

Students will read primary documents from suffrage workers and female WWI contributors to discover their feelings toward not being allowed to vote.

Students will research in a group setting and prepare a written report or a PowerPoint presentation (complete with notes) about some aspect of the 1920s that does not fit the stereotype this era.

This will be an individual learning assignment that will require the use of artifacts and other primary sources from the Emma Goldman Papers project by the University of California-Berkeley and Public Broadcasting Station (PBS).

Students will read chapter five from Fredrick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday, "The revolution of Manners & Morals" as a guide to the seismic shifts in American popular culture during the 1920s.