During this webinar, you will learn teaching strategies that help students interrogate text, think critically, and discuss controversial issues respectfully. You will also discover how to move to culturally mediated and equitable practices where all students find their voice, become critical thinkers and are more engaged in their education.
Resource List
- Lesson: The Audacity of a Vote: Susan B. Anthony's Arrest
- Reading: Is It a Crime for Women to Vote?
- Teaching Idea: Voting Rights in the United States
- Book: The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
- Reading: Untitled Poem by Beth Strano 1
- Teaching Strategy: Barometer
- Teaching Strategy: Contracting
- Teaching Strategy: Four Corners
- "Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?" (National Park Service)
- "Black Women & The Suffrage Movement: 1848-1923" (Wesleyan University)
- "Hundreds of 'I Voted' Stickers Left at Susan B. Anthony's Grave" (PBS)
- "African American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment" (National Park Service)
- "The 19th Amendment Only Really Helped White Women" (Teen Vogue)
- "How Racism Almost Killed Women's Right to Vote" (The Washington Post)
- Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles
- Teaching Idea: A New Generation of Young Voters Emerges
Citations
- 1 : We originally posted a version of this poem attributed to Mickey ScottBey Jones. After learning that Jones' version was plagiarized, we have replaced it with the original poem by Beth Strano. Please use Strano's version going forward.
