The month of March every year is designated as . Whether you want to celebrate Women’s History Month through literature study or inquiry into the lives of real women, these resources can get you started:
In this article, the authors share criteria for evaluating female characters as positive role models in children’s literature and share novels and picture books that meet these criteria.
In this ReadWriteThink lesson plan, students are invited to confront and discuss issues of gender and racial injustice by reading a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts.
This article describes a unit that begins with the reading of picture books in the context of women’s history month and results in the final product of a historical fiction picture book profiling a woman who made significant contributions to her community.
As part of a junior-senior elective course, the author’s students complete a mother-daughter unit that includes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, oral history, and film. The culminating project is an extensive interview each student completes with her mother.
Combining letter writing, potential publication, and the power of perspective, this activity from ReadWriteThink challenges students to think about how opinions on topics such as feminism develop and change based on such things as age, experience, time, and place.
In this article, the authors call for tying service learning to feminist agendas, emphasizing civic activism involving true collaboration with communities.
How will you recognize 楼凤天堂 Women鈥檚 History Month in your classroom?