1. Take it to a Vote: The electoral college process should be changed
Do Now
Take it to a Vote:
The electoral college process should be changed
School should be year round
Women should be part of the draft

2. Women who fought for the right to vote
What does
suffragette
mean?
Women who fought for the right to vote

3. The women’s movement By 1870______% of college students were women.20
By 1870______% of college students were women.
Very few women could obtain high level jobs:
_________________________________
Most women went into the professions of
_________________________
Many women became active ______________ since they couldn’t use their education toward a career and were expected to stay at home.
executives, lawyers, doctors, etc.
social work or teaching
reformers

4. Votes For Women
Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony started the _____________________________________(NAWSA)
In 1913 The National Women’s Party was formed and used _______________________________ and other means to draw attention to the cause.
In 1919 the US Congress passed the _____ Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
parades, pickets, hunger strikes
19th

5. Look at the Timeline on page 676-677
How long did it take after Congress passed the 19th Amendment for it to be ratified?
What was the date for the first national election in which women were allowed to vote? What president could they vote for?
After the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment, what had to occur for it to become a law?
14 months
November 2, 1920
The Senate had to pass it, and 3/4s of the states had to ratify it

6. Create a banner with a slogan for or against the women’s right to vote.

7. Women in the Workplace Increased 25 million 30 million 38 million
3 ½ times ,

8. Make a list of as many famous/historical women as you can.
Do now:
Make a list of as many famous/historical women as you can.

9. trivia Price of the original Barbie in 1959 $3
Length of time Barbie dated Ken, at which time Mattel announced the couple “feels it is time to spend some quality time apart.”
Boxes of Girl Scout cookies sold annually
Shades of blonde Marilyn Monroe tried before choosing Platinum
Number of celebrities who have been on Oprah Winfrey’s show
Price of Lucy’s (from Peanuts) psychiatric advice (“The doctor is in”) $3
43 years
2mil. 9
856
$.05

11. This massive parade consisted of no less than nine bands
This massive parade consisted of no less than nine bands. It also included four brigades on horseback and close to eight thousand marchers.  The parade was cut into sections: working women, state delegates, male suffragists, and finally African-American women.

12. The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin
Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.

13. EXPOSITORY
WRITING
  Pick out three to five phrases which you think are especially important to the story . Briefly describe why you chose each. What questions about character or motivation or plot does this story leave in your mind?

14. Finally… How would Kate Chopin feel about modern day women?
Explain what happened at the end of the story.
What does the title mean?
What does this story tell you about the time period?
How would Kate Chopin feel about modern day women?