Here at Flocabulary, we use hip-hop music to make learning exciting and accessible to students. We recently created a song all about the history of women’s rights, and we couldn’t wait to share it with the NWHP community. Using our Women’s Rights Song as a jumping off point, this lesson plan allows students to focus in on key moments in the history of women’s rights and create a kinetic timeline of famous women in history. At the end of the lesson, students will use historical examples to support a plan for the future of women’s rights.

The Lesson Plan

1. Listen to Flocabulary’s Women’s Rights song. As students are listening, ask them to note down the different rights that women fought for throughout history, as well as current issues that women face. These issues are:

• Equal rights in the home
• Inability to own land
• Prohibition from voting
• Women being sent back to the home after WWII
• Educated women being bored at home
• Unequal pay
• Women currently owning 1% of land worldwide
• Women not being allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia
• No American head of state.

Explain to students that they will be learning more about the fight for these rights relate to periods of history through a research project and a creative presentation.

2. Break your class into 6 groups. Assign each group one of the time periods in history:

1. The French Revolutionary Era
2. The Civil War Era
3. Early 1900s
4. Post World War II
5. 1960s-1980s
6. The Modern Era

3. Each group should research and answer the following questions for its time period. They can begin research by clicking on the lyrics of our Women’s Rights song, and then using other online research techniques to find more:

• What major historical events happened in that period? How did these events affect women?
• What major rights issues were women facing during that period?
• Who were famous women during your time period who led the fight for specific rights?
• What were major women’s rights accomplishments during your time period? What important limitations still remained?
• From the beginning of your time period until the end, what changed for women?

4. After students have been given time to research, each group should create a skit that explains the answers to the questions. Give the groups time to write and practice their skits.

5. Started with the French Revolution group, have each group perform for the class while other students take notes. At the end this kinetic timeline, ask students:

Based on the successes and failures of historical women in their fight for rights, how do think current women’s rights issues should be addressed?

You can use this question as a basis for class discussion or as an essay prompt.

Like this song and lesson? Visit Flocabulary.com to access hundreds of songs, videos and lessons like these. 

Unequivocally, Women’s Education has assisted in improving the quality of life for women. Veritably, women’s history is an extensive one filled with struggle, strife, barriers, discrimination, demands, change and opposition. While women’s history is filled with opposition, clearly, women’s education has leaded the way to women’s empowerment. Care givers, nurturers, and providers by nature, women’s education has expanded the role of women to include such descriptions as mentors, motivators, educators and leaders.

Initially, at the rudimentary stages of American History women who considered getting an education often met opposition and adverse reactions. Although, the Women’s Right Movement and Feminist Movement has help to expand the roles of women in society, surely, the success of both of these movements has been the education of women and women educating other women.

Today, in the United States 60 Women’s colleges exist, and add to the fact a myriad of women attend state universities and colleges that accept both sexes. Archaic in our time, the school of thought that education should only be for men is now nearly defunct. Women’s education began as a thought, and then became part of a movement and eventually an equal opportunity. Women’s education for decades has received much approval, support recognition and encouragement from grandmothers, mothers, single mothers, daughters and sister girl friends.

Without the Women’s Right Movement, Feminist Movement, education and empowerment , today’s woman would be subject to one role that of domestication. To conclude, to effectively empower women with the tools to be successful in today’s society, education must be a pre-requisite, not an afterthoughtoroptional, Women’s Education and Women ‘s Empowerment is not invariable, it is dynamic and constantly changing; therefore, as women it is important that each of usremember the

Women’s Right Movement and Feminist Movement  as well as the importance of each movement and howboth movements has help improve the quality of life for all women. As you can see  and tell,despite the rate  or speed that Women’s Right progress ,each of usmust remember thatWomen’s Education – Women’s Empowerment began with women demanding equality .

Written by:
Jamala M Johnson

Founder & President of csaccac Inc

I was offended viewing the bookmark that the only woman of color was a slave or from that error. Many many African American Women have made great strides for women all around. Why does injecting slavery images or pass ills that tried to destroy us in this Country a must when discussing or advertising women progress.

Yes, slavery was real, but do you really think African American women want to be reminded of it continually?  I picked up so many markers to give out in school and my church. I have since rethought that process and discarded the bookmarks.

In the time of Tea Party, celebrating ill grains of slavery by proclaiming a confederate month in Virginia, I truly feel “women” need to embrace not just one type of African American Woman, but the whole group of us who have suffered greatly and yet are marvelously rebuilding ourselves and our families in spite of the hatemonger.

Any woman who comes from the lineage we have are proud and we would hope that others would start to embrace and respect us, we are powerful group, and need I write how “we” AA Women shaped this Country?

 Also, if you are a poet, you can submit your poetry about sexism to hiphopjenn@gmail.com and it will be posted. The link to the blog is: http://www.interculturalencounters.com/jenn_s_outlook.html.

Enjoy!

Washington was the 5th state to grant women full suffrage – 10 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified! Often, people are not aware that some states had granted women suffrage long before the 19th Amendment. When you look at this map of suffrage in the United States, women suffrage in America was a convoluted effort to be sure. By 1920, 17 states had granted full suffrage, 8 still had not granted any suffrage, 8 had granted presidential suffrage and 7 had granted school, bond or tax suffrage, only. There were other variations, as well, including primary and municipal suffrage in some cities.

To be celebrating a centennial of woman suffrage is a celebration, to be sure! The Washington Women’s History Consortium’s Exhibit, Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices, does just that.  The exhibit is co-curated by the Washington State Historical Society, the Women’s History Consortium and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. The exhibit is scheduled (subject to change) to move as follows:

• Washington State History Museum: Wed Feb 28, 2009 through Sun Sept 27, 2009
• Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center: Sat Oct 24, 2009 through Sun Jan 10, 2010
• Yakima Valley Museum: Thurs Feb 11, 2010 through Sun Jun 20, 2010
• Museum of History & Industry, Seattle Sat Jul 17, 2010 through Sun Oct 3, 2010
• Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Sat Oct 30, 2010 through Sun Jun 26, 2011

To help with the celebration, the Washington State Historical Society website hosts a wealth of information, including classroom lesson plans.

We are a small nonprofit educational museum and center, developed by myself, a single women that has just turned 50! We work diligently to educate young visitors on American History, the history of the American Presidency, and the history of those who have made a difference in our nation’s story.

We are working to add a Women in History exhibition hall to our current museum offering. We do have several vignettes that include those such as Martha Washington, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Yesterday I had the pleasure to meet with Susan K. Scott of Bonniebrook Museum, home of Rose O’Neill. We have plans to work together to further educating visitors and the communities of SW Missouri on the contributions women have made throughout history, especially Rose O’Neill. At the conclusion of our meeting, I began to search the Internet for information on Rose, and immediately came upon your site.

I have since signed on as a 2009 supporter, and ordered products from your site store! I am thrilled with the information. As our budget allows, I want to add all of your DVD’s to our library. In fact, it is because of your site, we are going to honor the Women Leaders of our community on August 26 at the museum with a group photo in our Oval Office exhibit, a reading of the 19th Amendment, and Suffragette ribbons for all in attendance!

Watch for information about our Women in History Month activities in 2009, we promise big announcements, big programs, and big educational opportunities!

I just wanted to thank you for your efforts, and your wonderful web site. I will visit it often! Be sure to include Jane Addams among the women you honor next year. She is responsible for the start of public sanitation departments (trash pick up)!
among many other accomplishments.

Sincerely;
Stormy Lynn Snow
CEO and Founder
National Center for Presidential Studies
501c3 Educational Center