1800s Women's Rights Movement Activity: Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments

Teach the early women's movement of the 1800s using 4 different excerpts of primary sources! Students will read parts of the Declaration of Sentiments, as well as the writings of Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Sarah Grimke. Then, they'll complete a creative summary activity to show what they know!

GOOGLE FOLDER INCLUDES:

• 4 student worksheets with readings + questions AND a creative summary activity (Google Slides & PDF included)
• Teacher instructions and ANSWER KEY! (PDF)

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4 diverse primary sources with varying level of difficulty:

• Excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention in 1848
• Excerpt from Sarah Grimke's writings that connects the women's rights movement with religious and political arguments AND abolition
• Excerpt from Frederick Douglass's "On Women's Rights" editorial in the North Star
• Excerpt from Sojourner Truth's famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech

These readings are broken into chunks and include specific questions to help students break down the sources!

You choose which sources you want to assign! For instance, you might:

• assign one or two sources for students to get started learning about the early women's rights movements
• use the sources as an homework/extension activity
• create a group activity or jigsaw with the four sources
• differentiate the assignment by assigning various texts to your students based on their reading levels

Then, if you choose, students will complete a CREATIVE SUMMARY where they make visual propaganda for the 19th century women's rights movement.

• The assignment includes specific directions for what students must include in their propaganda.
• The activity also includes a page of ideas of visual propaganda from the 20th century women's rights movement for students to use as inspiration.
• PLUS, the creative summary activity includes a rubric!

Please note the Google Slides are not 100% editable. The readings & questions are set as backgrounds, and students will enter their responses in text boxes on the slides. Teachers can add and delete slides, as well as enter their own text boxes to edit this resource for their classroom use!

I use these activities when I am teaching the age of reform during the American antebellum period or the Age of Jackson to connect the women's rights movement of the 1800s with the abolitionist movement and generating a discussion on reform during this era.

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