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The Weekly Text, 15 March 2024, Women’s History Month Week 3: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Patti Smith

Posted on March 15, 2024 | Leave a comment

On this, the third Friday of Women’s History Month 2024, here is a reading on Patti Smith with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I’d really like to think at this point that this extraordinary artist requires little introduction on this blog, so enough said.

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Resolved: Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women, Social and Vocational Position, and the Law

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

“Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.”

Resolutions, First Woman’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 19-20 July 1848

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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Cultural Literacy: Sandra Day O’Conner

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

OK: Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Sandra Day O’Conner, who you may know died recently. As is the case with many Supreme Court Justices and the presidents who appoint them (Earl Warren comes immediately to mind), Justice O’Conner was often at political variance with the Republican ideologue, President Ronald Reagan, who appointed her.

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Seneca Falls Convention

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“Seneca Falls Convention: (July 19-20, 1948) Assembly held at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the U.S.s women’s suffrage movement. The meeting was initiated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (who lived in Seneca Falls) and Lucretia Mott. Over 200 people attended the meeting including 40 men, The group passed the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of grievances and demands modeled on the Declaration of Independence that called on women to organize and petition for their rights. A controversial demand for the right to vote passed by a narrow margin.”

Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

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Cultural Literacy: Margaret Mead

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Margaret Mead. This is a half-page document with a reading of two very long sentences which might be best broken up if you’re teaching struggling readers, and three comprehension questions.

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Book of Answers: Zelda Fitzgerald

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

Did Zelda Fitzgerald write any novels? One, Save me the Waltz (1932).

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

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The Weekly Text, 8 March 2024, Women’s History Month Week 2: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Anne Bradstreet

Posted on March 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

For the second Friday of Women’s History Month 2024, here is a reading on Anne Bradstreet with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. She was, as you may know (and I didn’t, I think, because I thought she was a key figure in North American Protestantism somehow, so a theocrat of some sort I suppose) a poet; in fact, she was the first person to publish a volume of poetry in Great Britain’s North American Colonies.

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Places in Women’s History: Greenwich Village, New York, New York

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Posted on March 1, 2024 in Announcement, New York City

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Sandra Day O’Conner

Posted on March 1, 2024 | Leave a comment

“Sandra Day O’Connor originally Sandra Day (b.1930) U.S. jurist. Born in El Paso, Texas, she studied law at Stanford University, graduating first in her class, and entered private practice in Arizona. She served as an assistant state attorney general (1965-69) before being elected in 1969 to the state senate, where she became the first woman in the U.S. to hold the position of majority leader (1972-74). After serving on the superior court of Maricopa County and the state court of appeals, she was nominated in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Supreme Court and became the first female justice in the Court’s history. She proved to be a moderate and pragmatic conservative who sometimes sided with the Court’s liberal minority on social issues (e.g. abortion rights). She is known for dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions.”

­­­­­­­­­Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.

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Cultural Literacy: Alice Paul

Posted on March 1, 2024 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Alice Paul. This is a full-page document with a reading of four sentences, all of them long, and the first a compound separated by a semicolon, and six comprehension questions. This worksheet is long enough to serve as independent practice, otherwise known as homework.

Did you know that Alice Paul was the first, in 1923, to write and propose an Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution? You know, the one Phyllis Schlafly worked so hard to defeat in the 1970s? If you watched the FX miniseries Mrs. America  (which includes the extraordinary Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisolm) you know something about this. Alice Paul also worked for the ratification of the 19th Amendment, affirming a woman’s right to vote, to the United States Constitution.

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