Lesson
Grades
- 8
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...
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Standard 8.4.CO
8.4.CO - Compare perspectives toward reform that engaged during the Progressive Era.
Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
Document
Grades
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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...
Document
Grades
- 5
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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 Grimké Sisters.
Document
Grades
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Students can use this document to compare and contrast the Rollins Sisters and the Grimké Sisters while viewing both videos.
Lesson
Grades
- 8
The students will learn about the Grimke Sisters and their importance in history.
Lesson
Grades
- 8
The students will learn about the importance of the Rollin Sisters in history.
Video
Grades
- 4
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Episode
5
The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...
Video
Grades
- 4
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- 8
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Episode
4
The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...
Video
Grades
- 4
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Episode
3
During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...
Video
Grades
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Episode
2
The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...
Video
Grades
- 4
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Episode
1
Frances Rollin was propelled into the national spotlight with the Pilot Boy steamship incident, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the captain refused her service due to the color of her skin...
Photo
Grades
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- Higher Education
This photo gallery includes the following: The 19th Amendment In the beginning, the Abolition and Women's Suffrage Movements were intertwined Frederick Douglass - A famous proponent of Women's...
Video
Grades
- 5
- 8
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
4
After the burning of Pennsylvania Hall, in Philadelphia, the Welds, along with Sarah Grimké, retreated to a farm in Belleville, New Jersey, where in 1839, the three produced a compendium on American...
Video
Grades
- 5
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
3
The pastoral letters, meant to crack down on the Grimké sisters’ activities, had the opposite effect. The Grimkés continued to grow in popularity, and their letters on women’s rights were among the...
Video
Grades
- 5
- 8
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
2
The Grimké sisters ran afoul of the Quakers as they embraced abolition and engaged in anti-slavery activities without permission. Angelina Grimké wrote a letter to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
1
Sarah and Angelina Grimké worked tirelessly for both abolition, and women’s suffrage. The Grimké sisters were the first to say, in print, that women deserved to live alongside men with an equal...
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
5
Host Beryl Dakers asks the panel to address the “Elephant in the Room”, which is the issue of race and voting.
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
4
The panel discusses the issues women face when it comes to voter suppression.
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
3
Host Beryl Dakers asks the panel why it took so long for women to gain equal rights in both the U.S., and in the state of South Carolina.
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
2
The panel discusses various issues women face today, such as why it is important for women to be on the ballot, and women’s representation in our government.
Video
Grades
- 5
- 8
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- Higher Education
- Professional Development
Episode
1
The roles South Carolinians played in the Women’s Suffrage Movement have often gone unheralded. This program highlights the efforts of famous South Carolina suffragists, such as the Grimke sisters...
Video
Grades
- 5
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Episode
2
The second generation of suffragists came to prominence alongside the "New Woman" movement in the early 1900's. The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association...
Video
Grades
- 4
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Episode
1
The question of women's suffrage in the U.S. had been debated long before the movement's humble beginnings at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848. Part 1 of this edition on the Women's Suffrage...
Lesson
Grades
- 5
- 8
During this SmartARTS lesson, students will learn what life like during the early South Carolina Textile Mill Era. Students will analyze photographs and close read a poem in order to gain information...