Women of the Revolutionary Era

In a response to a colleagues' posting during this module, DeLores McInnis prepared the following: " In Lesson 4 from The Way We Saw It – The American Revolution in Illustration and Art , pg. 17, the picture depicting Mary Ludwig Hays preparing a cannon to be fired would be a great attention grabber for third graders to find out more about women’s roles in the American Revolution. Using the format from What Questions Do We Ask of the Past – Thinking Like a Historian you can write third grade appropriate questions for each step of the process. The primary resources you listed will definitely give students background knowledge to be successful in their discoveries and they research and participate in real experiences (e.g., sewing bee). I did some of my own research to find primary resources for this topic. There are a vast amount of images you can access through Google that show the different roles women played during that time period. Video Clips about Women and the Revolution Women of the American Revolution Women of the American Revolution Republican Motherhood : Where did they fit after the Revolution?/Raising patriotic sons/Being a mother becomes a political act Women of the American Revolution : Brief histories Tribute to Women in the American Military : From the American Revolution to the present The Betsy Ross Home Page : Take a virtual tour of her house Petticoat Ladies – Perform the lives of women in the American Revolution: Free lecture video Additional Resources for Teaching about Women and the Revolution A great website of resources for kids on the American Revolution: I even Googled liberty cloth and got this resource . It’s a readers theater play from Scholastic Printables titled Daughters of Liberty—Spinning for Liberty (4 – 8 grades). You have to

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Women of the Revolutionary Era is an episode from American Revolution and Primary Source Documents by Christy G. Keeler, Ph.D..

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