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Activities with
are difficult.
Warm up
1. Count how many boys and girls are in your class/school committee.
Write your findings here:
There are
girls and boys in my class/school
committee.
I think that the number of boys and girls in the committee is because .
2. Read the following situations in pairs and decide what you would do:
You cannot vote in
the school's committee because you are a boy. How would you feel? What would
you do?
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You want to go to
school but you cannot because you are a girl. You have to stay at home, cook
and clean. How would you feel? What would you do?
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Send your work to the 
Did you know?
Women started their fight for suffrage (right to vote) 150 years ago because
only men could vote at that time. 
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are
created equal........."
With these words women started their fight for equal rights.
In 1920, women in the United States got many rights, including the right
to vote. It was a long and hard fight.
Today, there are many important women in many fields.
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In this unit you will learn about the contributions of significant women of the
past and present.
3. Women believed that they deserved the same rights as men. What about
children?
Work in pairs: which rights do you think
kids
should have?
To read what kids said
click here.
4. Watch the following movie 'Not
For Ourselves Alone'
to get some
general background on the Suffrage movement
(women's struggle for the right to vote).
Click
here.
What was the day and
year that women first voted?
Name the two women
whose work had a tremendous effect on women's rights.
5. Many women fought for their rights to  .
The first woman that we have chosen to present to you is
Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont.
She was one of the first and the biggest donator to the fight for equal rights
for women.
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| Alva
Vanderbilt-Belmont
was the Manager and Financier of the American
Woman's Suffrage Movement and
one of the most prominent figures of the women's movement. |
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont speaking at a meeting at her home in
Newport. |
Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont
frequently invited people to her home. Her guests drank from cups and
teapots on which appeared the words "Votes
for Women".
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6. In the following link you will learn about
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.
Click here.
Advanced students can
learn more
here
or here.
Work with a partner and decide which 3 facts you think are the most important
about Alva
Vanderbilt Belmont's
life.
7.
In what way do you think
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's life
and struggle effected women's life today? How did she change the face of today's
society?
Send to the
8. The following is a
quote by
Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont:
"I have been crying in
the wilderness for wealthy women to
give up their leisure
and do something to justify their existence - in vain - no reforms appeal to
women who have everything."
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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont |
Explain what
Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont
meant to say. Write your draft here.
Send your work to the
9. Search for a woman who has made a significant change in our world.
Write a factsheet, attach pictures and display in your class.
The following sites may help you.
Write your draft here.
10. If you liked
Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont's contribution to society,
notify sites listed above which do not mention her biography.
Which
sites did you notify?
Send
your work to the
11. Online word search on famous women 
Click
here. |
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12. In the following link you will read about the right
to vote (suffrage) in many countries.
Click here to read to learn more
click here.
Which
were the two first countries that gave women the right to vote? 
Which was
the last country that gave women the right to vote?
Check your answers.
13.
Write a timeline (of at least 10 countries) marking the name of the country and
the date in which it granted women suffrage. Display it in your classroom.
Women's life in the past 
14. In the following link you will learn some surprising details about
women's life in the past. Write 5 things that you think are unfair regarding
women's life in the 1800's.
Click here.
15. In the following link a woman who was born in 1907 is interviewed. She
tells what life was like for women almost 100 years ago. Write how women's lives
have changed since.
Click here.
Send
your work to the
16. Why did people oppose the Suffragists? 
Work in pairs and write 3 reasons why in your opinion people opposed the
Suffragists.
Look in the following link to check your answer.
Click here.
Did you answer correctly? Write a few reasons that you didn't think about which
explain why people opposed the Suffragists.
men and women equal today?
17. What will you do
if you hear people say one of the following:
"Don't
throw like a girl."
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"You
can't do that; you're a girl." |
"I
never was good at math or science." |
| "It's
not ladylike to whistle." |
"Boys
will be boys." |
"Let
the men build the fire; we'll cook supper." |
| "We
need a man to do this." |
"Boys
are smarter than girls." |
"Don't
listen to her, she's a girl." |
Send
your ideas to the
18. Women are
still fighting against discrimination based on gender. Read the following
cases of discrimination
click here.
Summarize one case that you have read and write your opinion
about it.
19.
Search in newspapers and the media for cases of
discrimination against women and let everyone know about it. Write your draft
here.
Send your
work to the
20.
The following link is a discussion forum on women's rights
and issues.
Express yourself! Click
here.
21.
Do women in 2001 have equal rights with men? 
Are there still rights to accomplish?
Send
to the
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