October 18, 2013

A lesson that went well. A lesson that I taught that I really think went well was when I taught iniatives and womens suffrage. An initiative is a law that is written by citizens and put on the ballot to become law. Women used this to gain suffrage in individual states. First I split the room in two halves. I put the girls on one side and the boys on the other. Then I had the boys vote on things like should the girls take notes today, should we watch a movie today or sports etc. Through this I ignored the girls. Then I explained that this is what it was like for women in the progressive era and why women worked so hard to change it. Then I had the students write a brief reflection on what they thought after the activity. Then I explained how the intitiative was used. After this I put the students in groups and had them write their own laws. After which each law was read, debated by the class, and then voted on. I think this lesson went well because the students talked about it for a long time, and the students can still recall the information presented in it.