Primary Source Activities: Let Ohio Women Vote
Author: Jean M. Mooney
Grade(s): 9
Description
Allow students, in groups or individually, to examine the primary source linked under Resources to the right, while answering the questions below in order. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
Level I: Description
1. When do you think this post card might have been created?
2.Does this image remind you of anything else that you have seen before?
Level II: Interpretation
1. Why does the post card say, "Ohio Women?"
2.What might the artist be trying to convey through the style chosen to do this drawing.
Level III: Analysis
1. Based on your examination of this post card, who would you guess that artist to be representing?
2. Who would you imagine might have purchased and sent this card?
3. What was the purpose for this card? Why would a vendor want to stock it in his inventory?
Standards
- History 9-10, Benchmark F: Identify major historical patterns in the domestic affairs of the United States during the 20th century and explain their significance.
- Indicator: Grade 10, GLI 9. Analyze the major political, economic and social developments of the 1920s including: b. Womens right to vote.
- Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities 9-10, Benchmark A: Analyze ways people achieve governmental change, including political action, social protest and revolution.
- Indicator: Grade 10, GLI 2. Explain how civil disobedience differs from other forms of dissent and evaluate its application and consequences including: a. Womens suffrage movement of the late 1800s.
