Title: Women in the 20^th Century

Type of Teaching Unit: Lesson Plan

Grade Level: 8^th grade

Time frame: 4 days

 

Teacher Information:

Joshua Sterns

Shiloh Village School

AAM affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

jsterns@shi85.org

 

Lesson plan description and rationale:

 

Students will be examining the effects of the women’s movement on the United States in the twentieth century. Students will be looking for the advances of women have made over the past one hundred years, with an emphasis on power, influence, and  income.  Students will be placed in predetermined groups of no more than 4.  Students will then work on concluding if the women’s movement should end or continue.  The students will present their conclusions to class.

 

State Standards:

 

STATE GOAL 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other nations.

16A.-Apply skills of historical analysis and interpretations.

16B.-Understand the development of significant political events

16D.-Understand Illinois, United States and world social history.

 

STATE GOAL 18: Understand social systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

18B. Understand the roles and interactions of individuals and groups in society.

 

Objectives:

• Students will be able to examine primary source documents and make historical inferences from them.
• Students will use the Internet to conduct historical research.
• Students will present at least four accomplishments women achieved in the twentieth century and discuss women’s current economic status.
• Students will work with partners to promote collaborative research.

 

Resources:

Rockwell, Norman.  [Cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post showing a woman "Rosie" in overalls, face mask and goggles, eating a sandwich with a pneumatic riveter resting on her lap]. 1943 May 29. American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.  [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/awhbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b22417))] Illus. in: Saturday evening post, v. 215, no. 48 (1943 May 29), [cph 3g05602 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05602] (April, 2004)

 

Websites that the students will be seeing:

 

This website provides links to help research Women’s history

 http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#first%20twenty

 

Women of the Century-discoveryschool.com

http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/index.html

 

Women Who Changed the 20^th Century-Thinkquest.org

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001621/?tqskip=1

 

Median Income of People in the US-US Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income02.html

 

Methods:

Anticipatory Set:

This lesson will take place in the computer lab for one day & two days in the classroom .

Students will be shown a picture of Rosie the riveter and ask how she was different from photos we have seen of women earlier. 

Students will be asked about what they have learned about the women’s movement. Students will also be asked if they think the women’s movement is continuing today.  The class will discuss issues that are affiliated with women and if anything is currently being worked on to help them with these issues.

 

1. Students will be given a list of websites to focus their research.
2. Students will be given a handout to help them identify women’s accomplishments in the twentieth century.
3. Students will discuss and present what was learned from their Internet research to the class.

 

Evaluation:

Students are to present at least four accomplishments that women made during the 20^th century.  Students will then discuss some modern issues that face women i.e. equal pay in the work place.   Students will then conclude if “all people are truly equal” and what they think must be done to improve the status of all people in the US today.

 

Keywords for this lesson:

Primary Source, Secondary Source, Accomplishment, Movement, Equality