Book Description

The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The Women's Suffrage Movement Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock. Women's Suffrage Movement Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards! Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. The 20 documents in the Women's Suffrage Movement Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Portrait of women's rights activist Lucretia Mott - 1842 2. Photograph of women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton with her daughter Harriot, and an excerpt from her autobiography - photo 1856 3. Portrait of women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony and excerpt from her 1872 trial on the charge of illegal voting 4. Photograph showing the arrest of a suffragette in London, England - circa 1910-1915 5. Photograph of Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio - 1912 6. British cartoon speculating about why suffragettes refused to eat in prison - circa 1913 7. Cover of official program for National American Woman Suffrage Associa