| Reading |
- Women Have Always Fought for Rights in America
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- The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention Changed Everything
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- Black Women and Native Women Faced Different Struggles for Freedom
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- Women Worked as Spies and Code Breakers During World War II
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- The Role of Women in America Today: Progress and Challenges
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| Key Ideas |
- Under coverture laws, married women had no separate legal identity from their husbands and couldn’t own property or control their own money
- Even though women couldn’t vote or hold office, they contributed during the Revolutionary War as spies, nurses, and by keeping farms and businesses running
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- In 1848, about 300 people gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women’s rights at a historic convention
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments to sound like the Declaration of Independence on purpose, to show the Founding Fathers’ ‘blind spot’ about women
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- Enslaved Black women faced the cruel reality that their children could be taken and sold at any moment
- Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then made 13 dangerous trips back to rescue about 70 people, earning the nickname ‘Moses’
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- About 11,000 women out of 20,000 American code breakers worked secretly during World War II to read enemy messages
- Women code breakers helped with important missions, including efforts that led to shooting down the plane of the admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack
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- Women today have more opportunities than ever before and can become doctors, lawyers, astronauts, or even run for president
- About 26 out of 100 US Senators are now women, and women are leading major cities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.
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| Activities |
- Vocabulary Cards (Set 1)
- Mini Book: Early American Women’s Lives
- Coloring Page
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- Copywork
- Vocabulary Cards (Set 3)
- Mini Book Pages
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- Flapbook: Secret World War II Heroes
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- Tri-Fold Booklet: From Start to Finish
- Booklet: What Do You Think?
- Optional Quiz or Writing Prompts
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