The Women's Rights movement is the focus of an engaging and collaborative exercise, in which young historians use information found in textbooks, class notes, and the provided documents to craft a DBQ essay.

Concepts

women's suffrage, suffrage, the suffrage movement

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Flip the lesson and have class members do the readings out of class, saving class time to model how to approach a DBQ

Classroom Considerations

• Designed to be use with the Call to Freedom textbook, the lesson is easily adapted to other textbooks
• The DBQ is designed for eighth grade but is appropriate for high schoolers as well
• Beware the typos in Lucretia Mott's and Carrie Chapman Catt's bios

Pros

• The 15-page packet includes the DBQ and the DBQ documents, a graphic organizer, and biographical information about Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Cons

• Neither a rubric nor scored sample papers are included in the DBQ packet

Common Core

RI.8.1 RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1 RH.6-8.1 RH.9-10.1 RH.11-12.1