Our Wow factor for the Era of Reform

Characters:
Katie- Lucetia Mott
Skylar- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Yessika- Sojourner Truth
Kadijah- Fredrick Douglass

At rise:
At the Seneca Falls convention giving speeches.

Elizabeth Stanton
We have met here today to discuss our rights and wrongs,
civil and political, and not, as some have supposed, to go
into the detail of social life alone. We do not propose to
petition the legislature to make our husbands just,
generous, and courteous, to seat every man at the head of a
cradle, and to clothe every woman in male attire. None of
these points, however important they may be considered by
leading men, will be touched in this convention. As to
their costume, the gentlemen need feel no fear of our
imitating that, for we think it in violation of every
principle of taste, beauty, and dignity; notwithstanding all
the contempt cast upon our loose, flowing garments, we still
admire the graceful folds, and consider our costume far more
artistic than theirs.

(Everyone Claps)


Sojourner Truth
(Stands up)
And ain’t I a woman? Look at me. Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns and no man could head me…And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man-when I could get to it-And ain’t I a woman? I have born 13 children and seen most all sold into slavery and when I cried a mother’s grief none but Jesus heard me…. And ain’t I a woman?

(Everyone Claps)


Fredrick Douglass
(Stands up)
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

(Everyone claps)

Lucretia Mott
Whereas, the great precept of nature is conceded to be; "that man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the glove, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original;
Therefore, Resolved, That such laws as conflict, in any way, with the true and substantial happiness of woman, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and of no validity; for this is "superior in obligation to any other."

Helpful websites

http://www.frederickdouglass.org/douglass_bio.html A bio about Frederick Douglass

http://www.nps.gov/archive/frdo/freddoug.html more information on Him

Group member blogs

Katie blog - http://youngnationprojectkatie1.blogspot.com/


Skylar blog- http://youngnationprojectskylar.blogspot.com/

Yessika blog - http://youngnationproject-yessika.blogspot.com/

The 9 steo lesson plan for the Era of reform

1) Title:

“Equal Rights for All.”

2) Concept/Topic:

-The rights of women and African-Americans

3) Essential Questions of Lesson:

- How did the women and African-Americans do to overcome this issue that was hurting the lives of many?

4) Connection:

-Quick write on the rights that they have now compared to what the women and African Americans had.

5) Direct Teaching:

-Yessika- Talks about Sojourner Truth

-Katie- Talks about Dorthea Dix

-Skylar- Talks about Horace Mann

-Kadijah- Talks about Fredrick Douglass

-Skylar- Talks about the Seneca Falls (Concludes)

(People take notes and ask questions at the end. We ask questions to the students (vise-versa))

6) Step-By Step Explanation:

-Directions:
-Pass out word cross
-Fill in words that are listed below that have to do with the subject

7) Student-Centered Activity:

-Let students complete the word cross
-Ask for student volunteers to answer the cross word and give an example how the person/word is relevant to our subject (Give out prize if it is right).

8) Assessment:

-We will watch the students intently while they are working and make sure they are actually doing their work. Also we will ask questions to those who need it. The questions should not be about the answers.

9) Closure:

-We will let students ask questions and we will go over certain areas of confusion.
-We will also ask the students questions and if they answer the question to make sure they understand. We will also give them a prize if they answer it correctly.

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Frederick Douglass a strong man

Frederick Douglass was a slave just like most African Americans were in the 1800's but Frederick wasn't like most slaves he was smarter and had a education. Ever since he was born in Febuary of 1818 he had a specail gift that would change the world.when Frederick Douglass was only a few weeks old his mother gave him to his grandparents to live with .once he was six years old his grandmother left on the plantation all by himself and had no choice but to live with his two new master in Baltimore, the Auld family. one of his masters tought him how to write the alphabet but was ordered to stop because it was unlawful for slaves to learn how to read or write. Frederick took matters in his own hands and would sell his food to the neighborhood kids for some writing and reading lessons. When he was around twelve or thirteen he wrote is first book called The Columbian Orator which was very common in schools.

At the age of 20 Frederick had successfuly escaped from slavery by impersonating a sailor. When we got to Newbedford he met the girl of his dreams her name was Anna Murray and raised a family. When he was there he would attend abolitionist meeting which is people who are agasint slavery. in october of 1841 he attend a anti- slavery convention that which he was the lecturer of the anti-slavery society. at one of the convention he met a man of the name William Lloyd Garrison who wrote an abolitionist newspaper and made alot of pro-slave angry and have his house burned down. he also met a 6ft tall african american women named Sojourner Truth who was also a former slve and was fighting not only for black rights but for women right as well. he has been doing many public speeches and writing. he published his fisrt newspaper name the north star with a very strong motto on the front of it.

In 1848 at Seneca Falls there was a womens comvention there was 300 people and 40 men that attended the convention. A women by the name of Elizabeth Staton stood in front of hundreds of womens and some men about how women should be treated just like men. She even wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. the declaration of sentiments is a proposal saying that Women and blacks have the same rights as men do. For example, Vote or make speeches. Frederick Douglass was a strong believer in womens and is an unyeilding defender of the womens' rights and wrote three autobiographies. he was a trusted advisor for our 16th president Abraham Lincoln and had three keys for success in life. Number 1 is to Believe in yourself, Number 2 is to Take advantage of every opportunity and last but not least Number 3 Use the power of spoken and written language to effect positive change for yourself and society.

Here is a qoute from Mr. Frederick Douglass himself " What is possible for me is possible for you"

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