“[Casting her vote against the U.S. declaration entering World War I, 1917:] I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.”
Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeanette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Golda Meir. This is a half-page document with a reading of three simple sentences and three comprehension questions. A short, symmetical introduction to this world leader.
Did you know she was born and raised in Milwaukee? That makes her part of United States history as well as women’s history.
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“Margery (Louise) Allingham: (1904-1966) British detective story writer. She published her first story at 8, her first novel at 19, and her first detective story in her early 20s. Her stories about the fictional detective about the fictional detective Albert Campion became very popular, and such novels as Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The China Governess (1962), with their intellectual style and psychological insight, helped win detective fiction consideration as a serious literary genre.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
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.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“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.
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: (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.
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.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
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.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, united states history, women's history
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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