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Teacher's Guide for COBBLESTONE ® Elizabeth Cady Stanton

March 2000

Teacher Guide prepared by: Sheila Basile, 6th grade language arts teacher, Isaac E. Young Middle School, New Rochelle, N.Y.

Objective:

To understand how women's rights have changed since the 1800's while building the following reading, writing, and critical thinking skills:
  • to refer to text and locate supporting details
  • to compare information
  • to contrast information
  • to analyze information
  • to chart information on a venn diagram
Materials:

Copies of the March 2000 issue of COBBLESTONE®
venn diagrams

Procedure:

Introduce the lesson.

Distribute the magazines.

Read the article, "Great Expectations," by Christine Mierau aloud or silently.

Introduce the venn diagram activity by explaining that you will be comparing and contrasting women's rights during Cady Stanton's time to our time.

Distribute the diagrams.

Ask students to label the left side of the diagram "Early 1800s," and the right side "2000". (If students have never used a venn diagram, explain that differences are charted in the outer circles while similarities are written in the inner space where the two circles converge.)

Model an example for students. Draw a venn diagram on the board. Label it "1800s" on the left and "2000" on the right.

Ask students to refer to the article and think of one similarity in women's rights during Stanton's time and our time. Write the similarity on the board in the center of the venn diagram. Repeat the process for a difference.

Instruct students to use the article to chart more similarities and differences on their diagrams. Allow 10 - 15 minutes for this activity.

Circulate around the classroom to note students' progress and troubleshoot the lesson.

When 15 minutes are over, call on students to share their similarities and differences with the class. Write these on the board as students volunteer them. Instruct students to add any items they do not have to their diagrams.

When you complete the venn diagram, if students have not mentioned current inequalities such as equal pay for equal work, raise the issue with a question. You might say, "Even though we have made much progress in women's rights thanks to leaders like Stanton, how are women still treated differently from men today?" Write students' responses in the center of the venn diagram.

Summarize the lesson.

Evaluation:

Students' completed venn diagrams will enable you to evaluate students' performance.

Extension:

Students can use the information on the venn diagram to write a comparative essay on women's rights then and now.


Answers for Venn Diagram - "Great Expectations," from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Differences

Early 1800s
2000
birth of a daughter unhappy event birth of a daughter a happy event
women thought to be less intelligent than men women thought to be as intelligent as men
women couldn't make decisions, run businesses, or handle money women can make decisions, run businesses, and handle money
women couldn't own property or sign contracts women own property and sign contracts
women's wages legally belonged to their husbands women's wages legally belong to women
women could not vote women can vote
women couldn't go to college women can go to college
women work in the home women work in the home and have jobs/careers


Similarities

girls taught how to care for home and family

did not and still do not have equal career opportunities or equal pay
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