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Celebrating Women’s History Month ActivityCelebrating Women’s History Month Activity
Publisher
Newspaper Association of America
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Grade
4th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Types
Activities & Projects
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Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Independent Practice
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Technology
Internet Access
Year
2016
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Celebrating Women’s History Month

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Examine the lives of four women—Blanche Stuart Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Evans Price, and Sybil Ludington—in a 23-page activity packet. Each profile comes with a set of vocabulary and reading comprehension questions. Further activities include timelines, image analysis, writing a plot summary, completing a Venn diagram, KLW chart, and cause and effect practice.  

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

famous women, women's history, women's history month, informational texts, Vocabulary, reading, reading comprehension, timelines, image analysis, madeleine l'engle, plot summary, venn diagrams, cause and effect

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Schedule time in the computer lab or on personal learning devices to visit websites needed to complete the packet 
  • Allow pupils to choose which figure they wish to work on; invite them to share their newfound knowledge with the class 
  • Create a bulletin board that pupils can decorate to showcase each of the four women 

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires plenty of copies 
  • The activity's duration is an estimate of how long it can take for learners to complete one set 
  • March is Women's History Month

Pros

  • Profiles come with an engaging photograph 
  • An answer key is provided 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.4.1 RI.4.2 RI.4.3 RI.4.4 RI.4.5 RI.4.6 RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RI.5.3 RI.5.4 RI.5.5 RI.5.6 W.4.1.a W.4.2.a W.4.3.a W.4.4 W.4.5 W.4.6 W.4.7 W.4.8 W.4.9.a W.5.1.a W.5.2.a W.5.3.a W.5.4 W.5.5 W.5.6 W.5.7 W.5.8 W.5.9.a SL.4.1.a SL.4.2 SL.4.3 SL.4.4 SL.5.1.a SL.5.2 SL.5.3 SL.5.4 L.4.1.a L.4.2.a L.4.3.a L.4.4.a L.4.5.a L.4.6 L.5.1.a L.5.2.a L.5.3.a L.5.4.a L.5.5.a L.5.6 RI.6.1 RI.6.2 RI.6.3 RI.6.4 RI.6.5 RI.6.6 RI.7.1 RI.7.2 RI.7.3 RI.7.4 RI.7.5 RI.7.6 RI.8.1 RI.8.2 RI.8.3 RI.8.4 RI.8.5 RI.8.6 W.6.1.a W.6.2.a W.6.3.a W.6.4 W.6.5 W.6.6 W.6.7 W.6.8 W.6.9.a W.7.1.a W.7.2.a W.7.3.a W.7.4 W.7.5 W.7.6 W.7.7 W.7.8 W.7.9.a W.8.1.a W.8.2.a W.8.3.a W.8.4 W.8.5 W.8.6 W.8.7 W.8.8 W.8.9.a SL.6.1.a SL.6.2 SL.6.3 SL.6.4 SL.7.1.a SL.7.2 SL.7.3 SL.7.4 SL.8.1.a SL.8.2 SL.8.3 SL.8.4 L.6.1.a L.6.2.a L.6.3.a L.6.4.a L.6.5.a L.6.6 L.7.1.a L.7.2.a L.7.3.a L.7.4.a L.7.5.a L.7.6 L.8.1.a L.8.2.a L.8.3.a L.8.4.a L.8.5.a L.8.6 RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.3 RH.6-8.4 RH.6-8.8 RH.6-8.9

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