US History · Week 30 · Postwar America and Civil Rights
Women's Rights and Differing Views
Students compare differing perspectives on the roles of women, from Stanton and Anthony to activists and opponents in the 1960s and 1970s, and reflect on the expectations that shape their own choices.
- Students will
- Students compare differing perspectives on the roles of women from Seneca Falls through the 1970s, and explain what shaped each viewpoint.
- SEL skill
- Notice which expectations shape your choices and how those expectations feel
- What it looks like
- Students recognize the expectations that shape their own choices and name how those expectations feel.
- Content focus
- Women's Rights and Differing Views
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and how they influence what you do. More self-awareness 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
- 11.10.7: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.10, item 7)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HREP3 Evaluate major debates among historians about alternative interpretations of the past. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.4.9-12 Analyze the complex and interacting factors that influenced people's perspectives during different historical eras.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors on the same or related topics.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 15: Civil Rights
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 45: Redefining Equality: From Black Power to Affirmative Action
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 46: The Widening Struggle
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 54: Politics and Society in the "Me" Decade
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More self-awareness activities for US History
- Becoming a Citizen Historian Self-awarenessStudents explore the Enlightenment ideas behind the nation's founding and name the questions about belonging and fairness they bring to the American story.
- Americanization and Identity Self-awarenessStudents examine the Americanization movement's pressure on immigrants to give up language and customs and reflect on the parts of their own identity they carry proudly.
- Social Darwinism or Social Gospel Self-awarenessStudents compare Social Darwinism and the Social Gospel as explanations for poverty and success and examine their own beliefs about why some people struggle.
- Fear and Civil Liberties Self-awarenessStudents analyze the Palmer Raids, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas alongside the responses of the ACLU, NAACP, and Anti Defamation League and learn to recognize fear driven thinking in themselves.
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