Introducing “Votes for Women!” New Curriculum on the History of US Women’s Suffrage by BRI

0:00 name is Rachel Davison Humphries I’m the director of outreach here at the Bill of Rights Institute and I’m here with my colleague Gary to introduce you to our newest resource which is launching in April 29th team called votes for women the story of the 19th amendment we just launched this curriculum put it on our online resources voices of history and Gary here has been taking around the

0:20 country what are people been saying yeah yeah they love that there are seven lessons they can use ones a framing it takes you from the history of the women’s suffrage movement from pre-colonial times to the modern era and there’s a great capstone project dansa they really love that they can take and put it wherever they need it throughout their year like all of our resources these are all downloadable and free free

0:41 to use so we’ll walk you through one of the lessons now and then we’ll see on the other side Oh to get to our resource you go to voices of history that org slash of votes for women once on that page you’ll see that we have a preview of Lesson four so that’s the one we’re gonna walk through today so Lesson four

1:01 votes for women looks at 1866 to 1890 it examines the growth of the women’s suffrage movement after the Civil War so with all of our resources you have the founding principles civic virtue consent to the governing quality individual responsibility and representative or republican government other ones covered in this resource then we have the overview the objectives the materials

1:22 and some fun quotes that kind of lead us off and I love this one by the Wyoming legislature telegram to Congress we will remain out of the Union a hundred years rather than come in without our women good job I own a legislature so you’ll see the standards and then you get down to the real meat of the lesson plan with the handouts and resources you can download each of these individually or

1:43 if you want to download the whole resource you click on this resource this button right here and when you click on that button it’ll open up with a giant 25 page document that has the entire lesson in it all of the handouts all of the lesson plans and so you can see here everything that was on the main website is now in this beautiful principal

2:04 principal version with big full-color resources and at the very and are the answer keys because we love you and we know teachers need answer keys I like how you can grab and go with those when can I see more so we’re gonna actually get all of our resources up by April of 2019 three months before the anniversary of the ratification you can

2:24 find it all there at voices of history org you can go to our main website Bill of Rights Institute org or our YouTube channel or we’ll put up a few more of these videos to help walk you through the resource youtube.com slash Bill of Rights inst thank you so much we look forward to seeing you at one of our programs take care