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Standard 8-5.8

8-5.8 Compare the Progressive movement in South Carolina with the national Progressive movement, including the impact on temperance; women’s suffrage; labor laws; and educational, agricultural, health, and governmental reform.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

What Makes Up a Grimke Sister?
What Makes Up a Grimke Sister?

Lesson

Prior Knowledge Needed: Students should be able to comfortably make inferences about characters in stories they are reading (character traits, intentions, predictions, etc.) Students should be able to...

Girl Bill of Rights - Handout
Girl Bill of Rights - Handout

Document

This is an excellent video viewing document for Episode 1 of Sisterhood: SC Suffrage (Thee Grimke Sisters through the Civil War – Part 1). While viewing the video clip students can reflect and write...
What Makes A Grimke Sister? - Handout
What Makes A Grimke Sister? - Handout

Document

With this handout students can use magazines, poster board, and any other creative things they can find to fill the silhouette with all the things that describe the Grimke Sisters.
Grimke Sisters
Grimke Sisters

Lesson

The students will learn about the Grimke Sisters and their importance in history.

Rollin Sisters
Rollin Sisters

Lesson

The students will learn about the importance of the Rollin Sisters in history.

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
Episode 5

Video

Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
Episode 4

Video

In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
Episode 3

Video

Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
Episode 2

Video

Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone. The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...