Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote
Celebrate 100 years of a Woman's Right to Vote this year, 2020, as we read about and discuss the Women's Suffrage Movement and the ratification of the 19th amendment.
Mrs. Russell, M.S. Ed.
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4.9
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What's included
9 live meetings
9 in-class hoursClass Experience
Class structure: This class offers a non-fiction version of Literature Circles to students. The students will participate in reading this remarkable non-fiction text and will hold a weekly student-led discussion, rotating roles as they investigate both the history of the women's suffrage movement and ratification of the 19th amendment as well as evaluating the author's structure of the text. Book information: "The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot. The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen." - from Amazon description
Learning Goals
Word Wizard
Your job is to make sure the group understands the vocabulary in the text.
While Reading:
• Locate all new/challenging vocabulary words and any key words
• Share definitions for the new words
Questioner
Your job is to brainstorm questions that the group will discuss.
While reading:
•Ask clarifying questions
•Ask questions for discussion
Quote Master
Your job is to make sure the group cites accurate evidence from the text.
While reading:
• Find important quotes or evidence in the text
• During discussion, make sure your team cites evidence from the text
Key Point Finder
Your job is to make sure the team has identified all the key points of the text.
While reading:
• Make a list of the most important facts/details from the passage
Summarizer
Your job is to make sure the group holds an understanding of a summary of the text.
While reading:
• Write a short summary of the text that includes the key vocabulary and author’s main points
Text Structure Analyzer
Your job is to identify how the author organizes the information in the text.
While reading:
• Identify the text structure
• Complete the graphic organizer to share with the group
Connector
Your job is to make connections between other texts, videos, current events and any other activities on the same topic.
While reading:
• Compare and contrast this text with other sources of information (i.e., videos, texts, speeches) on the same topic
Moderator
Your job is to moderate the discussion and activity.
You will:
• Read and explain the directions
• Begin and close out the activity with the group
• Be sure the group stays on task.
Author’s Assistant
Your job is to think about the author’s perspective or get in the mind of the author.
While reading the text:
• Make a list of opinions the author might have about the topic.
• Make a list of statements the author makes about the topic.
Text Feature Collector
Your job is to explain to the group the information given using captions, photographs, tables, and graphs
• Look at all the graphics in the text
• Read each caption
• Explain what information the graphics give about the topic
Other Details
Supply List
1. A copy of the book "Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote" by Susan Zimet. 2 . Documents, provided by the teacher, printed by student.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined August, 2018
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Teacher expertise and credentials
My name is Carie Beth Russell. I live in the Kansas City area with my husband, two daughters and two cats. I am a former elementary teacher and gifted education specialist. I have been “home” since my second daughter was born, but have remained active in the field of education by teaching educational summer camps, tutoring and teaching at a homeschool enrichment program.
My professional priorities center around student-led learning. It’s my strong conviction that supporting children as they learn, rather than dictating how and what they learn, is the way to encourage their inborn patterns of curiosity, wonder and problem-solving that will serve them well in all stages of being human.
While my own children attend public school, we very much view education as something we own and must take personal responsibility for. We work hard at educational advocacy within the public school context. I teach my daughters to communicate with their teachers, ask for what they need and request amended or extended: depth, duration and scope of projects, units, skills and personal areas of interest.
Gifted Education services often provide these things for students who have been identified as such, but these standards and the definition of “giftedness” vary from state to state, based generally on funding, and doesn’t allow for many students to qualify. This leaves an enormous group of students who have “need of different” but no access to a more open-ended and curiosity-led education. Please understand that when I say enormous, I mean ALL.
Out School, and other platforms like it, allow students to adapt their learning modalities and pursue interests and learning pathways that intrigue their own very unique minds. Teaching students to participate in Student Led Learning, in its various formats, allows them to continue on in their own investigations of an amazing planet and human experience, studying past, present and future as they forge their own distinct path. Reviews
Live Group Class
$135
for 9 classes1x per week, 9 weeks
60 min
Completed by 6 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-16
4-9 learners per class
