Introduction
Attention!
ATTENTION!!
Sit down quietly and lets begin!
Women have been scorned once again... They are no longer allowed the right to vote anymore.
Are you mad?
Are you excited?
I NEED TO KNOW!
and so it begins...
Task
Your task is to reach out on a social networking site about the dangers of women not being allowed to vote. Make a post, make a comment, make it known that you need people's opinions.
Why is this an issue?
Is it an issue?
What makes this such an outrage?
Is it an outrage?
How is this significant?
Is it significant?
Does this change anything?
How would we (as women) win the right to vote back?
Would we want too?
What does voting allow women?
Does it allow us anything?
Collect the different responses and create a video in order to teach the class as to why this would be an outrage, how you feel about the issue, and how you understand the book as whole a lot better now.
Process
1.) Make sure you have read the book "A Cure for Dreaming" By Cat Winters.
2.) Think critically about how the issues of the women not being able to vote in this time period made them feel. What was their reasons for wanting to vote?
3.) Look up statistics of how many women actually vote in America.
Now the time has come... It is April 2016 and a woman's right to vote has been revoked.
Why is this an issue?
Is it an issue?
What makes this such an outrage?
Is it an outrage?
How is this significant?
Is it significant?
Does this change anything?
How would we (as women) win the right to vote back?
Would we want too?
What does voting allow women?
Does it allow us anything?
4.) Post questions above to a form of a social networking site and tag people in the post that you know will either share your post, or have an opinion on it.
5.) Record their responses and see if their responses meet yours. Does it differ? If so, how? If not, why is it alike?
6.) Using all of the information and responses that you have gathered make a clear argument as to if women should or should not be allowed to vote.
7.) Create a video that demonstrates your side of the argument, including the statistics and the responses from people. Make the video convincing. The audience needs to agree with your side of the argument. Your video should range from two to five minutes.
Make sure to include an introduction and a conclusion to your video. Make it compelling, make it different, and have fun with it!
Evaluation
Rubric
Introduction 10 points:
Does it introduce your topic and your position on how you stand on that topic? Was it a compelling? Did it have a hook?
Evidence 25 points:
Did the student include statistics of women voting? Are the statistics clear and presented well? Did they affect your position on the subject? Did the student use the social networking site in order to collect data? Was the data present in the presentation? Did the student use statistics that have an opposing point of view? Was the point of view of the student explained well enough and with enough evidence (other people's opinions) to support why they felt this way? Was the point of view convincing?
Conclusion 10 points:
Did your argument end on a strong note? Did it either leave the reader wanting more or completely satisfied with your point of view?
Presentation 5 points:
Were you visible in your video? Was your wording well thought out and clear enough to understand?
Conclusion
In the end the students will come out with an either opposing point of view for women voting or a point of view that supported the book. With this presentation, it will further explain the stance that women had in this time period of the book and why they wanted to vote. It will allow the students to become aware of the social issues and the stance that women take today on their right to vote. Overall, it will relate the book to an important issue that women today are still willing to stand up for.
Credits
These are resources that the teacher suggests for the students to guide them when looking for statistics about women voters and things to put in their video.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-dittmar/black-women-voters-by-the_b…
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0ahU…
http://statusofwomendata.org/explore-the-data/political-participation/p…
Teacher Page
ELAGSE9-10SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
ELAGSE9-10SL5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Using the sources on the Credits Page, I created this example of my project.