FEMINISM

What is it? What does it mean?

How has it changed over time?

Celebration Circle 20 min

Im not a feminist but CAROUSEL

Respond to quotes by famous women

in your notebooks

http://www.salon.com/20
13/04/06/im_not_a_femin
ist_but/

The F Word:
Reading
In your notebooks:
Why do you think feminism has become a bad word for so many
people? What keeps people from calling themselves feminists?
What would you say to someone who said something similar to
Madonna or Marissa Mayer?
I dont think that I would consider myself a feminist. I certainly
believe in equal rights - Marissa Mayer

Chimamanda
Adichie
Dialogue Journal

First Wave of
Feminism

has it been since

women won the
right to vote?

Gender Studies
Period 6 & 7
LT: Research
female
suffragists of

Women in Early America Video

4 Remarkable Wild
West Women

Women in Early America Jigsaw

1)With your group, read your section of american womens history
and fill out the section of the worksheet. Prepare to teach others
about it.
2)Mix groups up to have at least one person from each reading in a
group share your readings and teach others so they can fill out their
worksheet. TEACHING DOES NOT MEAN GIVING PAPERS AWAY TO
COPY.
3)Discuss as a whole class.

When did women get the right to vote

in the United States?
Does anyone know the answer?

When did women get the right to vote

in the United States?
In 1920, the 19th amendment was passed:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Newsflash: WOMEN
HAVE HAD THE RIGHT
TO VOTE FOR LESS
THAN 100 YEARS!

Sit with your

suffragist
research
partner from
last class

1915
or
2015?

Is there
interest
in an
after
school
field trip?

Researching a SUFFRAGIST
assignment
Suffragist: Person who fought for womens right to vote
1)With a partner, circulate room and choose a suffragist to research
on the ipads (no group can do the SAME suffragist)
2)Get an iPad (trade your ID or phone for an iPad)
3)Research your character to fill out worksheet
4)Prepare to tell class about your suffragist next class.

11/19
Sit with your
role group!

http://frugale
dmontonmama.co
m/2015/10/this
-barbie-advert
isement-change

Everyone is
talking
about how
this
commercial
changes
everything.
What do
you think?

Recap:
What were the conditions of women in the 1800s and early 1900s?

Welcome to the Seneca Falls

Convention of July, 1848
The first organized gathering of women to demand their rights as
women.
Not all attendees were women but because women comprised the
majority of those who attended, we are going to take on female
identifying roles.

Recap roles
Women in newly conquered territory of New Mexico,
Enslaved African Americans, New England Mill Workers,
Cherokee Women, Upper and Middle Class Women
1)Your homework was to read your role. Recap your role with
your group members.
2)DISCUSS WITH GROUP and WRITE ANSWERS IN NOTEBOOK:
What are our strengths? What are our challenges?

COME UP WITH AT LEAST 5

RESOLUTIONS.
Resolutions should begin:
Resolved that...
l

All resolutions must be based on the

perspective of your role but you may
use whatever information you have
available.

During the meeting, the group may

come up with many resolutions but it
is likely that the newspapers will only
pay attention to the top three.
Pick a travelling negotiator to spread
the word about what resolutions your
group deems important.

Travelling Negotiator
1) Share your resolutions
2) What do you have in common? What are your
differences?
3) Can you negotiate or rewrite resolutions to be more
inclusive? How can both of your groups get your needs
met by having something important to you in the top 3
demands?

MEETING

Declaration Preamble

Evaluating the Resolutions

Translate resolutions into your own words or modern day language onto
the sentence strip.

Have we met this resolution? Be prepared to answer this question

CRITIQUE DOCUMENT
What did you like about the document? What did you not like? What
effect do you think this document would have on the womens
movement as it developed?

Answer the following questions in your

notebook:
1)Look for clues about writers class or race background. What groups
of women do you believe were present at the convention based on
the Sentiments and Resolutions? From your groups standpoint,
what is left out of the list of complaints about the status of women?
2)According to the document, who or what makes women fully equal
to men?
3)What is the enemy according to the document? Are men the
enemy?
4)Critique the document. What do you think of it?

The actual Seneca Falls Convention

A: Who was there?

B: What did you like about the Declaration of Sentiments and

Resolutions? What did you not like?

Sojourner Truth
Would Truths concerns be
represented throughout the
womens movement?

Aint I A Woman?

Follow along with

text.

h
t
t

Read and Respond to Questions

If you finish early, do the extension.

Bill of Rights?

14th Amendment
The year is 1867 and you are a woman living in the United States
starting to fight for your right to vote. What do you notice? What do you
like? What upsets you?

15th Amendment
The year is 1869 and you are a woman living in the United States
starting to fight for your right to vote. What do you notice? What do you
like? What upsets you?

Characters of Iron Jawed Angels

Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
Carrie Chapman Catt

Review Questions

What is a hashtag?

Analyze quotes using hashtags.

Women and WWI

Your house and your

neighborhood both need to
be fixed up. Which do you
fix up first?
Answer in notebook and on board

Alva Belmont
- Divorced one of the richest men in the world to marry another man
- She was a central figure in New York high society
- She was a leader and benefactor of the NWP
CONTEXT FOR LETTER:
- NWP picketed in front of the White House after Wilson took the
United States into World War I

Read Mrs. Belmonts letter

- Demonstrate Understanding: Identify main ideas in margin notes or
in notebook.

Read Woodrow Wilsons Address

Home
- Use President Wilsons rhetoric
against him
- Use his words, phrases, or
arguments to explain why we need
democracy at home (why we need to
give women the right to vote)

Neighborhood/Abroad
- Identify Wilsons main arguments for
why the United States needs to be a
force for democracy abroad.
- Expand on his arguments and
prepare to present them.

Movie

Debrief movie
Why were both NAWSA and NWP
necessary?

Timeline
Event, significance, illustration.
Lets finish!

How did women get

to the roaring 20s?
Mass consumption, jazz, and work

1848
What women wear

1890-1915
What women wear

1920
What women wear

here in under
10 years?

Cult of
Domesticity

Before the Civil War, married women were

generally expected to devote their time to
caring for their home and family.

Changes in social status men are not the

only breadwinners.

Entering the
Social
Sphere

Late 1800s and early 1900s: Women are

entering the workplace
Why now? What social and economic forces do you think made it
necessary for women to enter the workplace?

War times
As men went off to war, women took their place in
work. WWI created a need for labor that
brought over 1 million women into the
workforce.
Women worked in traditional male jobs such as
railroad workers, shipbuilders, coal miners,
dockworkers, bricklayers, and cooks.

Industrial Times

Womens Education

Jobs such as teaching

required a high school
diploma, so many more
women graduated high
school during the late
1800s and early 1900s.
More women attended
college.

Feminine jobs

Women also worked in traditional

female jobs such as teachers,
nurses, and clerks. Others
volunteered at the Red Cross.
Women did NOT receive equal pay
for stepping into mens jobs.
The army did not allow women to
enlist in combat, but they
could serve in non-combat
roles, such as nurses.

Women Work
At the turn of the century, 25% of working
women had jobs in manufacturing.

Scavenger Hunt
What are you noticing?

Respond:

What else is happening?

- 18th amendment (Frances Willard what strategies did frances use to
unite women to suffrage -- appealing to that cult of domesticity)
- 19th amendment (wilsons speech to congress or
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-ritchie/the-power-of-the-19th
-ame_b_5718395.html
)
- Jazz (Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith iBio videos and Jo Baker doing the
charlseton)
- the Flapper (How are women of this era portrayed differently than in
the film Iron Jawed Angels? Flaming Youth trailer)

Respond:
Women were the guardians of morality: they were made of finer stuff
than men and were to act accordingly
- Frederick Allen

1920s-1950s
Next class: Wonder Woman

gender related
events on the
timeline?
Group competition

Warm up:
What do these car ads imply about
men and women?

Women were the guardians of

morality: they were made of finer stuff
than men and were to act
accordingly
Frederick Allen

Margaret Sanger

Mini Bio

Read Article
- Do pre-reading activity
- Take summarizing and reaction margin notes

Questions

1)What language did Margaret Sanger use to describe the first kind of
person? Who makes up the first group?
2)What language did Margaret Sanger use to describe the second
group? Who were they?

Women in the 1940s research

4 groups research

PUT INTERESTING OR MOST IMPORTANT DETAILS ON POSTER

NEXT CLASS
- Present posters
- Wonder Women
- Home assignment

1950s
Its Peggys
first day at
work. What
kind of advice
does Joan give
her?

1. What do these two women

have in common?
2. How do they differ?
3. Which image do you think
became more popular with
the public during the war?
Why?
4. How do these images go
against the usual portrayal of
women during the era?
5. Which image do you like
better? Why?
6. What was the purpose of
these images?
7. Do these images fit the
definition of propaganda?
Why or why not?

Women in the 40s and 50s

- Wonder Woman
http://commoncore.scholastic.com/sites/default/files/JS-WonderWom
an.pdf
- http://wonderwomendoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Middle-Sc
hool-Curriculum-T16.pdf
p 18 and 19 READ, look at comic see video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq1xMrm5lSI
- Students will interview a woman close to them or a community
leader. Some examples include their mother, older sister, aunt,

WARM UP: ANSWER 3 of the 7 questions in

your notebook.

1. What do these two

women have in common?
2. How do they differ?
3. Which image do you
think became more popular
with the public during the
war? Why?
4. How do these images go
against the usual portrayal
of women during the era?
5. Which image do you like
better? Why?
6. What was the purpose of
these images?
7. Do these images fit the
definition of propaganda?
Why or why not?

Poster Presentations
Find your poster in the back of the room and present the information with your
group.
As you listen to presentations, take notes in notebook.
PRESENTATION ORDER:
1) Women at work
2) Women at home
3) Women in the army (nurse)
4) Women in the army (corps)

Gallery Walk Comics

Circulate room looking at Wonder Woman comics on blue posters. Take notes in
notebook answering the following questions:

Read Article
1) Read article
2) Answer our class question: How does Wonder Woman reflect
the times in which she was created? in your notebook.
3) Look up ERA (Equal Rights Amendment that didnt pass
4) Look up if your state ratified the ERA.

Winter Assignment
Interview a woman close to you or a community leader. Some examples
include mother, older sister, aunt, neighbor, teacher, local business
owner, director of a non-profit or a local political representative. Ask the
woman about.
- Experiences growing up
- Specific obstacles she had to overcome
- Her role in the workplace or educational institution
- Changing perceptions of women over the years
Write notes in notebook.

As a class:
Brainstorm questions you could ask for assignment
Write ideas on the board and on assignment sheet

Extra Credit Extension

Write a report on the woman interviewed based
on the interview.
- Designing a mock social media page
- Create a Wonder Woman comic
- Writing a news story about a time in their lives
- Making an propaganda advertisement featuring that person

Welcome Back!

Circle
1) Great thing over break
2) Goal for this semester

Wonder Women
Ask the woman about.
- Experiences growing up
- Specific obstacles she had to overcome
- Her role in the workplace or educational institution
- Changing perceptions of women over the years

SHARE INTERVIEWS AT TABLES

With your tables:

Review major events of the time periods

First Wave Feminism

At tables, come up with major events in each time period.

The kooky 1950s

The birth of second wave

feminism
Betty Friedan, 1963

After reading your

paragraph

1) Summarize your paragraph in your notebook.

2) Answer ONE of the following questions based on your
reading:
a) What is the feminine mystique? (role of women)
b) How do women respond to this mystique?
c) How are women supposed to respond to this mystique according
to society?
d) What is the problem with the feminine mystique?

QUESTIONS:
1. What is the
feminine mystique?
(role of women)
2. How do women
respond to this
mystique?
3. How are women
supposed to respond
to this mystique
according to society?
4. What is the
problem with the
feminine mystique?

Read p22-28 by yourself or in

groups
In a socratic discussion we sit in a circle and we
cite evidence in order to gain a deeper
understanding of the text.
To prep for discussion as you read:
1) Number paragraphs
2) Highlight important quotes
3) Answer guiding questions

Sit in
front/behind
partner for
Socratic
Discussion
1/14

News of the Week

https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/video
s/669433226531521/?pnref=story.unseen-sectio
n

Thoughts?

Follow up Questions?
About the author?

About bias?

About a video?

WORKTIME

LAST DAY
BEFORE FINAL

Socratic Discussion
Sit behind partner who needs more time in
the circle.

Accomplishments of Second
Wave Feminism.
- Changed womens role in
society
- Movement and legislation
toward equal pay (Equal Pay
Act of 1963)
- Movement toward
reproductive rights

Naomi Wolf on
3rd wave
feminism
- More pluralistic: accepts
multiple experiences
- Less dogmatic
- Attention to class
- Media and power savvy

THIRD WAVE
FEMINISM
FOCUS ON QUEER NON-WHITE
WOMEN

The movement arose partially as a response to the

perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives
and movements created by second-wave feminism
during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, and the perception
that women are of "many colors, ethnicities,
nationalities, religions, and cultural backgrounds".
This wave of feminism expands the topic of feminism
to include a diverse group of women with a diverse
set of identities.

And waves to come...

Research THIRD WAVE

Choose one of the following (or find someone else) figures to research:
FEMINISM
Gloria Anzalda, bell hooks, Kerry Ann Kane, Riot Grrl Band,
Cherre Moraga, Audre Lorde, Maxine Hong Kingston, Reena Walker,
Eve Ensler, Angela Davis, Kimberlee Crenshaw, Kate Shanley, Paula
Gunn Allen, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Wangari Maathai, Mukhtaran
Bibi/Mukhtar Mai, Andrea Gibson, etc.
POSTER: Who are they? What did they do? What is their major
contribution to third wave feminism? Watch, listen, read.
PROJECT: Find a powerful poem, quote, video, speech, or piece of
writing by your person. Create something inspired by this person

Third Wave
Feminism

Riot Grrls

*First row move

clockwise
*Second row move
counter clockwise
*Answer questions and
Ill tell you when to

Gallery Walk
Write responses to images on post its

Riot Grrls
MOVEMENT

BANDS

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist

hardcore punk movement that originally
started in the early 1990s, in
Washington, D.C., and the greater
Pacific Northwest, noticeably in
Olympia, Washington. It is a subcultural
movement that combines feminist
consciousness and punk style and
politics.In addition to a music scene and
genre, riot grrrl is a subculture involving a
DIY ethic, zines, art, political action, and
activism.

Riot grrrl bands often address issues

such as rape, domestic abuse,sexuality,
racism, patriarchy, and female
empowerment. Bands associated with
the movement include Bikini Kill,
Bratmobile,Heavens to Betsy,
Excuse 17,Huggy Bear, Cake Like,
Skinned Teen, Emily's Sassy Lime,
Sleater-Kinney, and also queercore
groups like Team Dresch.

Kathleen Hanna and Bikini

Kill

How did Riot Grrl

Bands contribute to
third wave feminism?
Respond to their
movement: what was
interesting? What
made you hesitate or
question?

0-48:00

Research THIRD WAVE

Choose one of the following (or find someone else) figures to research:
FEMINISM
Gloria Anzalda, bell hooks, Kerry Ann Kane, Riot Grrl Band,
Cherre Moraga, Audre Lorde, Maxine Hong Kingston, Reena Walker,
Eve Ensler, Angela Davis, Kimberlee Crenshaw, Kate Shanley, Paula
Gunn Allen, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Wangari Maathai, Mukhtaran
Bibi/Mukhtar Mai, Andrea Gibson, etc.
POSTER: Who are they? What did they do? What is their major
contribution to third wave feminism? Watch, listen, read.
PROJECT: Find a powerful poem, quote, video, speech, or piece of
writing by your person. Create something inspired by this person