Day 35 - The "Woman Question"

Today we hurried 1st period through women's suffrage with a lecture and a couple of activities. The lecture was an overview of three sections in the textbook that cover the women's rights movement, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and going through the 19th Amendment in 1920. It was a nice review for students who saw "Iron Jawed Angels" earlier this week and a very quick overview for everyone else. To see how well they were paying attention I created a "timeline challenge" activity. Ten volunteers each got a piece of paper with an event on it. The rest of the students in the class had to arrange the ten volunteers in chronological order. I don't know whether they actually learned anything from this, but it got some of the students out of their seats and moving around and gave others the chance to test how well they paid attention during the lecture, so I would consider doing something like it again in the future.
After this we spent the second half of class doing the For/Against chart activity followed by the "imagine" letter. It was a lot to pack into one day, but it kept the students busy, which is the most important thing as far as 1st period is concerned.