Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.7a
The Standard
- SS24.US1.7
- Assess how women challenged their societal roles under the Cult of Domesticity through their participation in social movements prior to the Civil War.
Summarize the contributions of women reformers in the early to mid-nineteenth century who sought to expand political and educational opportunities for women.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect reformers to specific actions. They explain how a convention or a new school challenged limits on women's political rights or education.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary to give women advanced study. They can explain that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls convention, but women did not win the national vote then.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think women won the vote right after Seneca Falls. They may also treat efforts to open schools to women as the same campaign as the fight for voting rights.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one reformer who worked for political rights and one who worked for education. Write one action each took and the opportunity each sought to expand.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards with reformer names, actions, and goals; have them match each set and explain their choices.
Ask students to write two sentences: How did organizing Seneca Falls and opening Mount Holyoke expand women's options in different ways?
Play reformer bingo: call out an action, such as founding Mount Holyoke, and have students mark the matching name.
Compare your school's science course list with Emma Willard's 1819 education proposal; circle one subject she wanted girls to study.
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