"Remember the Ladies"
From: Gilder Lehrman
Grade Level: (HS), (College)
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 1 Class Period
Length of Reading: Pages
Meets Common Core standards. Break your class into groups of 3. Ideally, you should have 8 groups though you can have more groups. Give EACH group ONE of the 8 provided primary sources (1-2 pages each). These docs are written by women. Each group seeks to answer the 2 essential questions and the questions unique to each document. Each student in the group is tasked with searching for a particular aspect of the document (the link will tell you more about these). Finally, the groups explain their docs to the class.
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Grade Level:
(HS), (College): There is no specified age group for this activity; however, we think it would be well suited for high school and college students
This Activity Involves:
Primary Source: This activity utilizes primary sources.
Group Work: This activity calls for working in pairs or groups or having a group discussion.
Image: Copley, John Singleton. “Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis) oil on canvas.” Wikipedia, derived from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1763, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren#/media/File:Mrs_James_Warren_(Mercy_Otis),_by_John_Singleton_Copley.jpg. Accessed: 7.16.2020.
