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Women's History Month Word Clouds ActivityWomen's History Month Word Clouds Activity
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Center for Civic Education
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5th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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Women's History Month Word Clouds

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What a great idea for celebrating Women's History Month and discovering the amazing efforts that individuals have put forth on behalf of women's rights! Learners take a closer look at the speeches and other primary source documents of famous female activists, and then incorporate their words into a word cloud with an online tool.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

women's rights

Additional Tags

women's rights, social studies

Classroom Considerations

  • Consider having learners incorporate other speeches and texts that they have independently discovered 

Pros

  • Includes list of links to several notable speeches made by women's rights activists

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Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.4 RH.6-8.6

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