Describe the discrimination against women in the early 19th century.
Declaration of sentiments lesson plan. The declaration of sentiments your rights the declaration of sentiments your rights. Students will research one of the participants of the seneca falls convention and. Print add to favorites. Seneca falls declaration lesson group recording sheet names please work together as a group discuss your ideas and have one person record your group s response to each of the following questions.
A lesson on the declaration of independence. This lesson should be used after life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Eleventh graders explore women s issues in america. This lesson will help students analyze the document while also thinking critically about the time period in which it was set like this lesson.
Students will read and discuss the declaration of independence and the declaration of sentiments. Social studies and history. Pass out document a. Assign roles to students by having them play the part of convention participants journalists and those opposed to the convention.
In this democratic values lesson plan students compare and contrast the declaration of independence to france s declaration of the rights of man to the declaration of the united nations. 1 all men and women are created equal. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied but one to which the laws of nature and of nature s god entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. Extend the lesson by having students create a skit on the proceedings of the convention.
After this lesson students will be able to. Teach students about the declaration of independence doi and lead a short discussion about the purpose of the document see background information in the prerequisites section pg 2 3 in pdf. Students will discuss how the. Discuss the events that lead to the declaration of sentiments.
The following lesson includes an excerpt from the declaration of sentiments followed by a series of document analysis questions. Read the first two paragraphs of the declaration of independence and the first two paragraphs of the seneca falls declaration. The declaration of sentiments from the seneca falls convention 1848 note.