Research could be done on current protests and advocacy movements.
The teacher will share the Gage Quote Interpretation Worksheet.Students will be asked to recall the video segment on Matilda Joslyn Gage.How would seeing Haudenosaunee women in their roles make Gage and the other suffragists demand their right to vote?.What about the Haudenosaunee women lifestyle and freedom influenced the suffragists?.How did the Haudenosaunee women influence the Suffrage Movement?.After the class discussion, students should write a 1-2 paragraph response using examples from the video, completed chart, and class discussion to support their answers.When the charts are complete, the teacher should ask, "How have these roles changed today? Have they changed much or not at all?" The teacher can take notes on the board during the class discussion.
The teacher will distribute and explain how to complete the Roles of Women Chart.The students will be asked to think about the roles of women in different groups - Haudenosaunee, Black American, and White American.The teacher will remind the students what they already learned about the Women's Suffrage Movement, the Haudenosaunee, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.The students will watch the Matilda Joslyn Gage video segment.The teacher will assist the students in completing the worksheet. Next, the teacher will show students, explain how to complete, and then distribute the Concept Map of the Indigenous and Haudenosaunee Worksheet.The teacher will show a map of the original Haudenosaunee land holdings and explain the Haudenosaunee’s six distinct nations: the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, and later joined by the Tuscarora.Haudenosaunee - From Seneca hotínöhsö:ni:h, meaning house builders, the Iroquois confederacy.Indigenous - living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region.The teacher will explain the definition of Indigenous and explain the relationship between the words Haudenosaunee and indigenous.Then ask, “Who are the Haudenosaunee?” Wait for student responses. Activating prior knowledge of key vocabulary words Indigenousand Haudenosaunee, the teacher will ask, “Who can tell me what the word Indigenous means?” Wait for student responses.Students will watch the Introduction video from “Discovering New York Suffrage Stories” which explains a bit about the Women's Suffrage Movement.The teacher should then ask, “Who can tell me what suffrage means?," wait for possible responses and then share "Suffrage means the right of voting.".
The teacher will say, "We will be learning about the women's suffrage movement and the influence that Haudenosaunee women had on it.".“Have you participated in surveys, polls…?” Wait for student responses.