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9 Step Lesson Plan

1. Lesson Plan Title:
- FIGHT 4 YOUR RIGHTS

2. Concept/Topic To Teach:
- Mistreatment of Woman and African American rights

3. Essential Question of Lesson:
- Who were the main people that stood up for our rights and changed history?

4. Connection:
- Quick-Write: Write a half page on what you think of the different movements.

5. Direct Teaching:
1. Lily talks about Sojourner Truth
2. Sheryl talks about Dorothea Dix
3. Nick talks about Horace Mann
4. Langston talks about fighting slavery
5. Lily talks about equal rights for women
6.Sheryl talks about Seneca Falls Convention
(write notes on board)

6. Step-By Step Explanation:
- Directions:
1. Unscramble the words.
2. When unscrambled use the words to fill in the sentences.

7. Student-Centered Activity:
- Work on “Super Scrambler”

8. Assessment:
- We walk around and make over the shoulder checks while answering questions

9. Closure:
- Ask students to share their answers.
- Ask a few questions to check for understanding.

Sojourner Truth

In 1797 a little African American baby named Isabella was born into slavery. At the time she was just a baby, but eventually she would become someone that everyone will remember.

In 1806, when she was 9 years old, she was bought at an auction for $100. Two years later she was bought at another auction for a total of $105. She gave birth to 5 children between 1815 and 1826; Diana, Peter, Elizabeth, and Sophia. The 5th child died as an infant. In 1826 Isabella and her newborn baby Sophia escaped slavery. However, she had to leave her other 3 children as slaves because they couldn't leave until their 20's. In 1827- 1828 she won a lawsuit to recover her son Peter who was illegally sold into slavery in Alabama. Soon after she converted into Christianity. In 1839 Peter left on a whaling ship. When the ship returned 3 years later there was no sign of Peter; Isabella never heard from him again.

At the age of 46 (1843) Isabella changed her name to Sojourner Truth. In 1851 Truth attended a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. They argued that women need help from men. They summed it up by saying, "Women are weak." This upset Sojourner and she stood up and said, "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could out do me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mothers grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"

That speech came to be known as Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.

Sojourner Truth played a very big part in the woman's rights movement. Because of her speech so many people were forced to realize that Sojourner was right. Women are not weak. They could do just about anything a man could do. She made people realize that something had to be done about the way women were being treated.

Sojourner Truth lived a long life. 86 years to be exact. She died in her home in Battle Creek, Michigan on November 26, 1883.

Summary

The main events we learned about throughout this chapter were mostly about the rights that we have today. Some of the events were The Second Great Awakening, the Reformers movement in the Treatment of Prisoners and the Mentally Ill, improvements in the Educational system, Slavery, Equal rights for all women, and the Declaration of Sentiments.

The Declaration of Sentiments was very similar to the Declaration of Independence because it had a list of complaints. However, instead of a list of bad things King George III did to the colonists, it was a list of things that the men did to the women that the women didn't like. They were fighting for their rights as a woman. They were fighting for the rights we are lucky to still have. The changes they made were changes that were needed. The Declaration of Sentiments was created at a convention that was held in Seneca Falls. Of the approximate 300 people who attended, 40 were men. Two people that created the Declaration of Sentiments were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; two women who fought for what they believed in.

Mott and Stanton met in 1840 at a World Anti-Slavery Convention. They were two very different people, yet they agreed on one thing: something had to be done about womens rights. These women fought for their rights for such a long time. The men treated them as if they were slaves, some men would beat their wives. The women would be stuck with the cleaning, cooking and taking care of the kids because men thought that was all they were capable of. The rights we have now are what the women back then fought for. The fight for no slavery actually started the movement for women’s rights.
Slavery was abolished in 1833. There were Abolitionists who were people that were against slavery. Sojourner Truth and Fredrick Douglass helped make the voices of the people more powerful. Sojourner Truth and Fredrick Douglass were former slaves. Fredrick escaped from slavery. Then he talked to a group of Abolitionists and told them about the treatments of slaves.
Horace Mann helped with the education of their young generation. Some of the kids only went to school for ten weeks in a year and the teachers were under paid. Horace Mann became the State’s Supervisor of Education and he traveled around the other states. Most of the schools only allowed boys and not girls or African Americans. In the South they only allowed a few girls by yet no African Americans. In 1837 to the 1860’s they began letting in women to the schools.
Dorothea Dix was visiting a jail to teach the prisoners. She was just trying to do a good deed, but when she went in she saw what was happening to the prisoners like the mentally ill or maybe even the wrongly accused. After her visit she decided she wanted to help some of the prisoners, like the mentally ill or the ones accused for a small crime but punished for it. After her decision she traveled to other states and made reports about treatment that the mentally ill receive. Dix showed reformers, even women, could lead a society to make useful changes in the US.
These events all lead together as if it was a path meant for those who choose to follow it. The path may lead to the success they had but they worked for it, they worked for that chance to say something many others wish they would have. Those thoughts started an important change in our country. History changed with people who decided their destiny for themselves instead of just following it.

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