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"Remember the ladies"
From: Gilder Lehrman
Grade Level: (HS), (College)
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 1 Class Period
Length of Reading: Pages
Our Summary of
"Contagious Liberty:" Women in the Revolutionary Age
Meets Common Core standards. Break your class into groups of 3. Ideally, you should have 8 groups though you can have more groups. Give EACH group ONE of the 8 provided primary sources (1-2 pages each). These docs are written by women. Each group seeks to answer the 2 essential questions and the questions unique to each document. Each student in the group is tasked with searching for a particular aspect of the document (the link will tell you more about these). Finally, the groups explain their docs to the class.
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Image: Copley, John Singleton. “Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis) oil on canvas.” Wikipedia, derived from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1763, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren#/media/File:Mrs_James_Warren_(Mercy_Otis),_by_John_Singleton_Copley.jpg. Accessed: 7.16.2020.
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Grade Level: (HS), (College)
- We put these in parentheses because there is no specified age group for the activity.
- However, we think it would be excellent for high school (HS),and college students.
Remote Ready: With Modifications
- Links to the reading assignments can easily be emailed or posted for students.
- It’s much easier for small groups or pairs to coordinate a phone call or video conference meeting than for the entire class to sync their schedules. Have these small groups post answers, a synopsis, or a video of their discussion to your LMS.
- Paraphrase questions into your LMS so you can grade student’s written answers online rather than in an email or on a worksheet. Or if a graphic organizer is amazingly well done, you could have your students take a picture of their completed work and email it to you.
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This activity calls for working in pairs, a group, and/or having a class discussion
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