Women's Footprint in History
DPLA: The Equal Rights Amendment
The Digital Public Library of America is an invaluable archive of primary sources with thousands of images, texts and videos from all over the United States. Primary source sets come equipped with teaching guides and can be linked directly to Google Classroom.
DPLA: The Black Women's Suffrage
Crash Course
Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel started by John and Hank Green (collectively the Green brothers), who first achieved notability on the YouTube platform through their VlogBrothers channel. John Green is also the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down.
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Video Reconstruction Assignment
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Students watch a video three times. The first time, students just watch the video. During the second and third viewings students take notes. In between the second and third viewing, students are given an opportunity to discuss their notes with elbow partners. Following the third viewing, elbow partners reconstruct the main ideas of the video from their notes.
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The Early Leaders of the Movement
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3, 2, 1 Exit Ticket
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This is a quick and easy Exit Ticket that can be used in conjunction with any videos on this site. Exit Tickets in general, assess student learning and incorporate writing as a daily practice.
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Biography Videos
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Remarkable American Women Internet Search
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This is a simple assignment that asks students to use an online search engine to investigate some remarkable American women.
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Contrary to Popular Belief, Rock & Roll is a Matriarchy
Despite not being a household name today, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Her flamboyance, skill, and showmanship on the newly electrified guitar played a vital role in the conception of Rock & Roll as a genre of music.
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Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was a blues singer and songwriter whose recordings of “Hound Dog” and “Ball ‘n’ Chain” later were transformed into huge hits by Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin.
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Dolly Parton's America Podcast
Dolly Parton's America is a podcast exploring Ms. Parton's enduring popularity across cultures and generations in an increasingly polarized world. Episode One, entitled Sad Ass Songs, expands beyond Dolly herself to address the difference between First and Second Wave Feminism. This episode also discusses the sub-genre of "Murder Ballads" in which men sing about brutally killing women. (Mature Content)
To listen to episode one click HERE.
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Great Big Stories
Great Big Story is a global media company devoted to cinematic storytelling about real people from around the world. All their stories are available on YouTube.
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OpenLearn: How Women Changed the World
- Who wrote the first novel over 1000 years ago? Who disguised herself as a man to explore the new world? Take this interactive world tour to discover the stories the history books left out.
- Meet some extraordinary individuals who rewrote the rules rather than accept them; when you return from this voyage of discovery you won't see history in the same way again.
- CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW
Teaching Tolerance: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Their resources emphasizes social justice and anti-bias.
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SmartHistory Videos
Smarthistory is the most visited art history resource in the world. They are also the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and they support AP art history and A-level curriculum. Smarthistory supports students, instructors, and lifelong learners everywhere.
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Rigoberta Menchu
This indigenous woman from Guatemala won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for devoting her life to promoting indigenous rights in her country. In a dramatic film-like twist, her campaigns got her exiled, and she escaped to Mexico. There, she narrated a book about her life to Venezuelan author and anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos, "Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia" (My name is Rigoberta Menchú and this is how my conscience was born). The book made her an international icon.
"My name is Rigoberta Menchu," reads the book's first page. "I am 23 years old. This is my testimony. I didn’t learn it from a book and I didn’t learn it alone. I’d like to stress that it’s not only my life, it’s also the testimony of my people. ... My story is the story of all poor Guatemalans. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people."
"My name is Rigoberta Menchu," reads the book's first page. "I am 23 years old. This is my testimony. I didn’t learn it from a book and I didn’t learn it alone. I’d like to stress that it’s not only my life, it’s also the testimony of my people. ... My story is the story of all poor Guatemalans. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people."
The Seneca Falls Convention
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Teaching Tolerance: "Ain't I a Woman?"
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Shadi Ghadirian & Representations of Veils in Art
Photographer Shadi Ghadirian was born in 1974 in Tehran, where she lives and works today. Ghadirian studied photography at Azad University, where she encountered some of the earliest works in the history of Iranian photography. These archival images sparked her own work, a series of photographs that capture the private worlds of Iranian women today, caught between eras, between tradition and modernity.
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The Hidden World of Girls
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF GIRLS —Stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities—of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide. This series is produced by The Kitchen sister for National Public Radio. For access to their archives click HERE!
For two decades, the Kitchen Sisters (originally called Horizons) interviewed female gang members in Los Angeles. The goal was to document for posterity these women and their unique perspectives and experiences. (Mature Content)
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BooBoo was originally interviewed in 1995. At that time she was living with friends in East Los Angeles and deeply involved in her gang the Playboys. When she was interviewed again in 2011 her life had gone through many changes. (Mature Content)
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Original audio documentary in 1995 (28:50 minutes)
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Revisiting BooBoo in 2011 (7:19 minutes)
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