Lesson Plan The US Government and Indigenous Peoples before the Trail of Tears, 1770-1839 Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this five-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan American Women and World War I 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this three-lesson unit :
Lesson Plan Black Women and the American Revolution 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this lesson plan.
Lesson Plan The History of Federal, State, and Tribal Powers, 1788–2020 Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this five-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Colonial Pennsylvania and the Paxton Massacre, 1763 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this four-lesson unit. About This Lesson Plan Unit The four lessons in this unit explore a massacre in colonial Pennsylvania in which the Paxton Boys—immigrants from Ulster,...
Lesson Plan Woman Abolitionists Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Background Women always played a significant role in the struggle against slavery and discrimination. White and black Quaker women and female slaves took a strong moral stand against slavery. As abolitionists, they circulated...
Lesson Plan A Different Perspective on Slavery: Writing the History of African American Enslaved Women 9, 10, 11, 12 Introduction The accounts of African American slavery in textbooks routinely conflate the story of enslaved men and women into one history. Textbooks rarely enable students to grapple with the lives and challenges of women constrained...
Lesson Plan Alice Paul: Suffragist and Agitator 9, 10, 11, 12 Background The American women’s suffrage movement has always been identified with its two founders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, whose strong, enthusiastic leadership defined the movement. When they retired from active...
Lesson Plan Examining Women’s Roles through Primary Sources and Literature Art, Literature 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Essential Question: How were the ever-changing roles of women in American society chronicled? Background Joseph Heller writes in his book The Feminization of Quest-Romance that "American Literature equates the very essence of what it...