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TCH 264 - Language Arts Instruction Strategies

A guide meant to provide or supplement library instruction to support the integrated multicultural unit and refection assignment.

Continued Barriers to Women Voting

Directions

The twenty example texts have been sub-divided thematically into five sections for more focused review. Your group is looking at materials which would likely be used to directly discuss the topic of the text set, women's voting rights, and focuses on continued barriers to voting for women after the 19th amendment. Important topics include the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and amendment in 1975. You can assume students will have previously been introduced to voting and election basics, as well as the women's suffragist movement. 

Potentially Relevant Standards from the C3 (College, Career, & Civic Life) Framework for Social Studies State Standards include:

  1. D2.His.2.3-5. Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today. 
  2. D2.His.5.3-5. Explain connections among historical contexts and people’s perspectives at the time.
  3. D2.His.6.3-5. Describe how people’s perspectives shaped the historical sources they created. 

Within your group, decide who examines which of the four texts. (Note: If you have more than four group members, put multiple people on whichever text(s) seems the most complicated. If you have fewer than four group members, choose which text(s) not to review).

After reviewing your text(s) reflect on the following questions and take notes on your thoughts:

  1. How is your text related to Women's Voting Rights, and more specifically continued barriers to voting after the 19th amendment?
  2. How does the text address issues of diversity, equity, & social issues?
  3. What would students already have to know or understand to engage with your text? What would students be able to learn from your text?
  4. How do you imagine using such a text instructionally when designing a unit on Women's Voting Rights?

Reconvene with your group members and report back on your text, sharing answers to the above questions. This verbally models the annotations you will do when constructing your own text set when completing the Integrated Multicultural Unit Reflection assignment. 

  • How could your texts work together or complement each other instructionally?

Be prepared to share out your group's thoughts with the larger class after reviewing this section of the larger example text set. 

Text 9 - Timeline

Rubin, S.G. (2019). Give us the vote! : over 200 years of fighting for the ballot. Holiday House. pp. 105-107.

 

Text 10 - Primary Source (Photograph)

[African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama]

About this Item

  • Title: [African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama] / WKL.
  • Photographer(s): Leffler, Warren K.
  • Created / Published: March 12, 1965

Leffler, W. K. (1965) African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama / WKL [Photograph]. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014645538/. 

 

Text 11 - Non-Fiction Picture Book

Lillian's Right to Vote

Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter (TMC 323.1196 WIN)

Book summary: An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family's tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a "long haul up a steep hill" to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky-she sees her family's history. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. (Read-aloud: https://youtu.be/AS6lxJqbPiA)

Winter, J. & Evans, S. (2015). Lillian’s right to vote : a celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Schwartz & Wade Books.

 

Text 12 - Primary Source (Video)

Johnson, L.B. (1965, March 15). Speech to Congress on Voting Rights [Speech audio recording]. Britannica Kids. https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Voting-Rights-Act/631613/media.

 

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