US History · Week 16 · World Power and the 1920s
Winning the Vote
Students trace the long campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment and set a personal goal that will require steady effort over time.
- Students will
- Students trace the long campaign that led to the Nineteenth Amendment and explain how the changing role of women in society, and the persistence of activists, shaped the outcome.
- SEL skill
- Break a long term goal into steps and name what helps you keep going
- What it looks like
- Students set a goal that requires steady effort over time and plan steps toward it.
- Content focus
- Winning the vote
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means directing your thoughts, feelings, and actions toward goals, including staying motivated when progress is slow. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 11.5.4: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.5, item 4)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI4 Understand the meaning and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.14.9-12 Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging ways people change societies, promote the common good, and protect rights.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
Fits these textbook chapters
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 11: Reconstruction
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 17: The Progressives Respond
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More self-management activities for US History
- Faith and Reform Self-managementStudents study how religious revivals energized abolition and other reform movements and identify the sense of purpose that keeps them working toward a goal.
- The Home Front in the Great War Self-managementStudents examine wartime propaganda, limits on speech, and the Great Migration and practice managing stress when pressure to conform runs high.
- Radio, Movies, and Mass Culture Self-managementStudents compare the arrival of radio and movies with today's media and build a plan for managing how media shapes their mood.
- The Crash and the Human Toll Self-managementStudents examine the causes of the Great Depression and how families coped and identify healthy ways to handle stress about money and the future.
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