Virginia SOL USII.8.f

Social Studies6th GradeLate 20th–Early 21st Century

The Standard

describing the similarities and differences between the objectives of the women’s movement of the early and mid-20th century

Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students compare goals pursued by women’s rights activists in different parts of the 20th century. They identify shared aims, such as equal citizenship, and changing priorities, such as voting rights, workplace equality, and education.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can sort movement goals by time period and support each choice with historical evidence. They can name at least one similarity and one difference between the periods.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat the women’s movement as one event with unchanged goals. They may also think voting rights ended sex discrimination or that all women gained equal access at the same time.
How to Assess It: Give students four goals: voting rights, equal pay, equal education, and access to jobs. Ask them to place each by period, then explain one similarity and one difference.

Lesson moves

Give pairs goal cards and dated source excerpts, then have them build a two-column timeline and defend where each card belongs.
Ask students to write: How did winning voting rights change, but not finish, the fight for equality?
Play Goal Match, where teams connect leaders, laws, slogans, and demands to the early or mid-20th-century movement.
Use a school handbook or job advertisement to discuss how rules about education and work can create or remove barriers for women.

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