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Upper School Faculty!
This multimedia exhibition featuring items from several collections, including the National Archives, provides students a unique opportunity to learn about the history of Women's Suffrage. They will improve primary source and visual literacy by experiencing history portrayed using various methods. They will use critical thinking skills to complete writing assignments which can be modified by faculty to be formal or informal. Students will also be exposed to other U.S. historical collections.
The following is primarily intended to complement your existing teaching units.
Writing assignments and prompts developed by English faculty member Yakshi Palmer.
Grade: 9-12; can be modified for 7-8
Location: 'Iolani School Archives. Adaptable for Distance Learning.
Materials:
Each student must bring:
Format:
Suffrage Video Viewing:
The class, as one large group, will view the video "Best Kept Secret: Suffrage in the 20th Century" available through the Fairfax County Government YouTube channel. The video provides a summary of the history of Women's Suffrage.
Video: 8 minutes 12 seconds
---> Writing assignment - Answer all questions:
'Iolani Women:
This component will feature yearbooks, photographs, and more highlighting the role of women throughout the history of 'Iolani School. Beginning with its start as an all-boys school through to coeducation in 1979, it includes information about the only female head-of-school.---> Writing assignment - Answer all questions:
Rightfully Hers from the National Archives:
'Iolani School Archives is fortunate to have received Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote popup exhibit from the National Archives. It was created to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment (August 2020). It includes information and images of digitized items from the National Archives collections exploring the history of the ratification of this historic amendment, women's voting rights before and after, and its impact today.
The exhibit is presented in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Unilever, Pivotal Ventures, Carl M. Freeman Foundation in honor of Virginia Allen Freeman, AARP, and Denise Gwyn Ferguson.
**Scroll down to see Digital versions for Distance Learning: Rightfully Hers popup poster 1-4.**
---> Writing assignment - Answer all questions:
Optional Follow-up:
If time permits, or as follow-up to the class visit, additional videos are available through an archivist curated playlist of videos, including speaker panels and informational shorts from the National Archives.
Possible additional writing assignment:
Rightfully Hers - Supplemental Image Gallery
Digital Versions for Distance Learning
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote | National Archives Museum website
Photograph Based Questions - Examining Primary Sources: