Beginning with an exercise of favoritism to engage learners, progressing through image and primary source analysis of the Nineteenth Amendment and the Seneca Falls Declaration, and culminating in a look at a political cartoon called Election Day, your learners will get up close and personal with the advocacy events leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Concepts

elizabeth cady stanton, women's rights, the nineteenth amendment, women's suffrage

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Additional Tags

women's rights, seneca falls, lucretia mott, elizabeth cady stanton, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• In case some learners may already know of the Nineteenth Amendment, consider having an alternative warm-up question while you guide the experience outlined in the anticipatory set

Classroom Considerations

Pros

• Excellent discussion questions are included throughout the lesson
• All primary documents and corresponding worksheets are included, as well as an audio clip from NPR
• The timeline worksheet is included as a possible extension activity

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.5