Femenism
Purpose: Introduce women in history that have and are still making a difference in our world. Introducing the basic concept of feminism.
Audience: Third graders at grade level as a whole.
Audience: Third graders at grade level as a whole.
Anchor Text: I Dissent - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Levy, D., & Baddeley, E. (2016). I dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Grade level: 3-5
Description: This is an incredible picture book that tells the journey of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life. This book will be used to introduce the concept of feminism in a basic level. The book's story and vivid illustrations effectively show the struggles that Ruth had to go through at home and in society in order to achieve her educational goals. The story is an informative biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that sets the tone for the rest of the curricular feminism texts, it uses very powerful illustrations that depict Ruth's struggles and triumphs.
Grade level: 3-5
Description: This is an incredible picture book that tells the journey of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life. This book will be used to introduce the concept of feminism in a basic level. The book's story and vivid illustrations effectively show the struggles that Ruth had to go through at home and in society in order to achieve her educational goals. The story is an informative biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that sets the tone for the rest of the curricular feminism texts, it uses very powerful illustrations that depict Ruth's struggles and triumphs.
Around America to win the vote
Rockliff, M., & Hooper, H. (2016). Around America to win the vote: two suffragists, a kitten, and 10,000 miles. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Grade level: k-3
Description: This is a really fun and interesting picture book that tells the story of two women that went around the United States to rally for the right for women to vote. Their journey throughout the country is shown as a powerful feminist movement through lively illustrations. Based on true events, this picture book does an amazing job at telling the story of these two suffragists. The way the color yellow is used throughout the illustrations comes out as a powerful and inspiring motif of the women's right to vote movement.
Grade level: k-3
Description: This is a really fun and interesting picture book that tells the story of two women that went around the United States to rally for the right for women to vote. Their journey throughout the country is shown as a powerful feminist movement through lively illustrations. Based on true events, this picture book does an amazing job at telling the story of these two suffragists. The way the color yellow is used throughout the illustrations comes out as a powerful and inspiring motif of the women's right to vote movement.
Miss Moore thought otherwise
Pinborough, J., & Atwell, D. (2016). Miss Moore thought otherwise: how Anne Carroll Moore created libraries for children. Boston, MA: National Braille Press.
Grade level: 1-4
Description: "Miss Moore thought otherwise" is the incredible and not so popular story of a librarian! To be more specific a children's librarian. This picture book is based on true events based on the life of Anne Carroll Moore and her journey to open up children's spaces inside libraries. Although it might be hard to believe back in the day children were not welcomed inside libraries and librarians were not very nice to children. Miss Moore thought otherwise and she set off to change the world of libraries and children alike. This book does an amazing job at telling Miss Moore outstanding accomplishments in the library world while keeping in mind that their audience were children. The illustrations are beautiful and further explain what Miss Moore's mission was and the changes that she made in the children's library space.
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?
Stone, T., & Priceman, M. (2013). Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.
Grade Level: K-3
Description: This picture book tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, a girl who embarked on a mission to become a doctor in a world were women weren't supposed to be anything except mothers and wives. This picture book is a little bit easier to read than the rest of the texts on this set, but I particularly like the simple and basic storyline so that the students that are below reading level are able to grasp the importance that these revolutionary women had in our history. The illustrations do an excellent job at enhancing the time and place where this story took place.
Malala Activist for Girl's Education
Frier, R., & Fronty, A. (2017). Malala Activist for Girl’s Education. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.
Grade level: 1-4
Description: This book is amazing. I loved the color palette and how the images show a cultural experience enhancing Malala's struggles, joys, and triumphs. This book does a great job of telling Malala's story to a much younger audience through the use of story line and powerful illustrations that depict Malala's cultural background. This book is powerful in many ways but the strongest one is how it shows children that you don't have to grow up and be an adult to make a difference, that standing up for what you believe to be right is powerful enough and that the world listens to you. I also chose this book to show students that feminism is not just a movement from the past but that still today women are still fighting for their rights, and girls just like Malala are making a difference in the world we live in.
She Persisted
Clinton, C. B. (2017). She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World. New York: Philomel Books.
Grade level: 1-3
Description: The picture book, "She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World" is a powerful book that introduces 13 stories of 13 american women from different backgrounds that persisted with their feminist beliefs and changed the world they lived. It introduces inspiring stories of women who didn't let the world tell them no, based on their gender, race, or ability to something determined what they would end up doing in life. It is a wonderful book that would show students how women have struggled throughout time and persisted in many occasions making the now and then a better world to live in.
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Beaty, A., & Roberts, D. (2013). Rosie Revere Engineer. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers.
Grade level: k-3
Description: Although this story is not based on a biography like the past books, it does an amazing job at telling a story about a girl that loves science and gadgets and who has dreams of becoming an engineer. Through an amazing rhyming prose, the story unfolds as a little girl tries to invent new gadgets. She stops making them after someone laughs at her inventions, but she then later is encouraged by her great great aunt, which is hinted that work during the world war, hinting at the amazing feminist movement. Later in the book Rosie invents a flying tool which then later fails, but her aunt encourages to keep trying and to never quit. At the end of the book her great great aunt gives her a scarf/bandana which symbolizes the feminist movement that happened around the World War and specifically to Rosie the Riveter, the fictional character whose slogan was "We can do it!". This book is rich in history detail and still fun to read out loud to the class as well as one on one for the kids to look at the illustrations and interpret them as they like.
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Video
[United Nations]. (2014, September 22). Emma Watson at the HeForShe Campaign 2014 - Official UN Video [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk Description: This video shows a a famous movie star talking about obstacle that she has had to encounter since she was a little girl. She tells stories of discrimination based on the fact that she is a girl. It gives insight to how boys and girls are still to this day treated unequally and encourages listeners to stand up for change. This video is a great addition to the text set because it's a visual as well as an audio that supports all the stories that we have read so far about how women have persisted tough economic and social injustices. It also supports how women have stand up for themselves and change the world we live in by educating themselves and becoming the leaders of our past present and future. |