Influential Women

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Influential Women

• Angela Fordyce
• ED 417

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Content Areas/ Benchmarks/ Indicators

• Second Grade
• Content Area---Social Studies
• Benchmark---History, By the end of the K-2
  program students will recognize that the actions
  of individuals make a difference, and relate the
  stories of people from diverse backgrounds who
  have contributed to the heritage of the United
  States.
• Indicators---Daily Life-Use historical artifacts,
  photographs, biographies, maps, diaries, and
  folklore to answer questions about daily life in
  the past. ---Heritage- Recognize the importance
  of individual action and character and explain
  how they have made a difference in others lives
  with emphasis on the importance of social and
  political leaders in the United States and
  explorers, inventors, and scientists.

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Learning Objectives

• The objectives for this lesson are to introduce
  the students to different influential women
  throughout the world. The students will gain
  knowledge of different cultures, understand the
  importance of individuals, and see how these
  women have shaped the world we live in today.

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Overview of Activities

• The activities will be constructed in a center
  approach and will last for one entire week.
• Students will make airplanes that have dates
  written on them for the dates Amelia Earhart flew
  her airplane.
• Students will create a patchwork flag by working
  together like Betsy Ross did. This flag will be
  hung outside the classroom.

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Overview of Activities Continued

• Students will write a page everyday in their
  journal to remind them of the diary Anne Frank
  wrote.
• Students will create a poem about their favorite
  thing like Emily Dickenson. On Friday the
  students will read their poem in front of the
  class.

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Overview of Activities Continued

• Students will create a map of the Massachusetts
  Bay Colony to see where Anne Hutchinson lived.
• Students will research on line the most
  interesting person to them that has received a
  patent in the United States. This will show them
  how important it was for Mary Kies to become the
  first woman to receive a patent for her ideas.

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Overview of Activities Continued

• Students will interview each other like Oprah
  Winfrey does on her show. The students will
  learn more about their peers and have to write up
  a column on their peer.
• Students will write one thing they would like to
  change in their own lives. This relates to Rosa
  Parks and her aspirations.

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Overview of Activities Continued

• Students will be given a handout of a blank map.
  They will have to label all of the country and
  color India, where Mother Teresa showed a lot of
  her kindness, blue.
• Students will tell about their favorite activity,
  game, or sport they like to participate in and
  who is an important figure in that sport. They
  will share this on Friday in front of the class.
  I will talk about being a ballerina and how I
  look up to Suzanne Farrell.

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Overview of Activities Continued

• Students will look up five first ladies in their
  encyclopedias and write one fact about each lady
  down on paper. They will also draw a picture of
  each lady by the fact about her. They may use
  Jackie Kennedy if they wish.
• Students will listen to a story about influential
  women in history and then make a shield like one
  Joan of Arc would have worn.

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Resources and Materials

• Blank paper
• Lined paper
• Colored paper
• Red, white, and blue material
• Needle/ Thread
• Scissors
• Journals
• Map of the world
• Computers
• Handout of a blank map
• Encyclopedias
• Different colored crayons
• Large sheets of cardboard
• Tinfoil
• Book A is for Abigail-an Almanac of Amazing
  Woman

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Resources for Students

• www.kids.gov/k_history.htm
• www.kindsbookshelf.com/gsfk/biography.asp
• www.kidinfo.com/schoolsubjects.html/
• www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
• www.kidsites.com/

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Assessment

• Students will be assessed on all of their
  different writings. Knowledge and legibility
  will be focused on.
• Students will be assessed on their participation
  when working with others and sharing in front of
  the class.
• Students will be assessed on their two maps they
  turn in and how accurately they depict the actual
  maps.

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Amelia Earhart

• My name is Amelia Earhart. Most of the world
  remembers me for my courage, vision, and
  groundbreaking achievements, both in aviation and
  for women. I set many records in aviation
  including being the first women to rise to an
  altitude of 14,000 feet. On June 17, 1928, I set
  out with a team of aviators and traveled from
  Trepassey harbor, Newfoundland to Burry Port,
  Wales. This flight took 21 hours and was a major
  milestone in the history of aviation. I flew
  solo across the Atlantic on My 20, 1932 and was
  awarded with a gold medal from the National
  Geographic Society and the Distinguished Flying
  Cross from the Congress. I went on to set more
  records and in 1937 I had an idea to fly around
  the world. I set out for this great adventure on
  July 2, and never returned. My memory lives on
  today for my courage, vision, and
  accomplishments.

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Betsy Ross

• My nave is Betsy Ross. I was born into a family
  of seventeen children on January 1, 1752. When I
  was younger, I attended a Quaker public school
  and was taught reading, writing, and sewing.
  After I completed my schooling I went to an
  apprenticeship with a local upholsterer. During
  this time I fell in love with my first husband
  John Ross. My husband died on January 21st from
  a wound that he suffered from an explosion in the
  war. It was later that year that I met with
  George Washington, George Ross, and Robert
  Morris, which led to the sewing of the first flag
  of the united states. Although I died at age 84,
  my memory still lives on through my sewing of the
  first American flag, now a symbol to all nations
  for freedom.

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Anne Frank

• My name is Anne Frank. I was born into a
  German-Jewish family on June 12, 1929. When I
  was a teenager, my family and I were forced to
  spend 25 months in an annex of rooms above my
  fathers office in Amsterdam. This took place
  during World War II and was called the Holocaust.
  The entire time the war was going on, I kept a
  diary. I was found and deported into Nazi
  concentration camp. During my stay at the
  concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, I died of
  typhus. My memory and courage lives on through
  my diary, which has been translated into 67
  different languages and is one of the most widely
  read books in the world.

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Emily Dickenson

• My name is Emily Dickenson. I was born in
  Amherst, Massachuetts on December 10, 1830. I
  attended Holyoke Female Seminary where I was
  energetic and very outgoing. After my schooling,
  I grew reclusive. I stayed in my house most days
  doing household chores and writing poetry. I had
  a few close friends that I sent my poetry to and
  six of these poems were published, when I was
  alive, without my consent. After I died on May
  15, 1886, my poems were discovered. I wrote over
  1700 poems that are now published, read, and
  studied by many people around the world today.

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Anne Hutchinson

• My name is Anne Hutchinson. I was banished from
  the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, for my
  devotion to religious liberty. I fought for
  freedom from persecution and was massacred by
  Indians for my beliefs. Today I am remembered as
  being the first American woman to fight for
  public religious diversity and female equality.

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Mary Kies

• My name is Mary Kies. I became the first woman
  to receive a U.S. patent in May 5, 1809. Many
  women, because they could not own property in
  those days, did not bother to try to patent their
  ideas. I broke that pattern and patened my
  method of weaving straw silk. My new invention
  made me sell beautiful hats that no one else
  could copy. Today women all over the world paten
  their ideas and inventions to sell all sorts of
  things.

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Oprah Winfrey

• My name is Oprah Winfrey. I was born on January
  29, 1954. I was raised to overcome any obstacle
  put before me and did just that. I am now the
  host of the talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, a
  influential book critic, an academy award
  nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. I
  am a very generous and powerful influence in
  society today.

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Rosa Parks

• My name is Rosa Parks. I am a brave woman who
  during a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama, I
  refused to give up my seat to a white traveler.
  I was arrested for this act and fined for
  violating the city ordinance. This act began a
  movement that ended legal segregation in America.
  I worked for the NAACP and was honored with many
  awards like the Rosa Parks Freedom Award, the
  Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold
  Medal. When I died, I was placed in the state
  Capitol, which is usually an honor reserved for
  only Presidents of the United States because I
  was an inspiration to freedom-loving people
  everywhere.

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Mother Teresa

• My name is Mother Teresa. I was born in
  Macedonia on August 27, 1910. When I was twelve,
  I was called by God to become a missionary and
  spread the word and love of Christ. I took my
  initial vows to become a nun in India in 1931. I
  then became a teacher but saw the poverty and
  suffering of the people around me and knew I
  needed to help them. I then opened a school for
  slum children and helped children and families
  suffering from poverty. I died on September 5,
  1997, and am recognized and acclaimed throughout
  the world for my willingness for international
  peace and understanding and for my generosity
  that I spread to those around me.

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Suzanne Farrell

• My name is Suzanne Farrell. I grew up in
  Cincinnati, Ohio and became the youngest
  ballerina in the history of the New York City
  Ballet. I started dancing when I was eight and
  by the summer of 1962 I was dancing featured
  roles in the ballet. In 1965 I was promoted to a
  principle dancer. I retired from dancing at the
  age of 42 because I was diagnosed with arthritis
  in my right hip. I now am traveling the world to
  teach Balanchine ballets to a new generation of
  dancers. I am an inspiration to many young
  ballerinas and an inspiration to many.

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Jackie Kennedy
My name is Jackie Kennedy. I was born in 1929
and married my husband, Senator Kennedy in
Newport in 1953. Soon after, I became the first
lady when my husband became the President of the
United States. I brought intelligence,
cultivated taste, and beauty into the presidency,
which was publicized most often by the press. I
was very resilient when my husband was
assassinated and was publicized for my courage
during this time. I died in 1994, but my valiant
life is still recognized by many.        
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Joan of Arc

• My name is Joan of Arc. I was born on January
  6, 1412 in France. I received visions from Saint
  Margaret of Antioch, Saint Catherine of
  Alexandria, and Michael the Archangel, who told
  me to find the true king of France and help him
  reclaim his throne. I lead troops from battle to
  battle, where I was wounded but brought Charles
  VII to the throne. I was then captured by
  Burgundians and later executed as a heretic. I
  am known around the world as a valiant warrior
  for my country.