Tag: Women’s History Month
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Women’s History Month: A list of women to teach this month
My problem with a lot of women’s history month lessons that are built for elementary-aged students is that they tend to highlight women who worked rather than women in history. This sounds divisive but I want students to know that women made history, led revolts, changed nations, fought in wars, and all the other things…
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Asian Women’s History Short Reads
Ensuring that women are included in history curriculum can sometimes be a daunting task because most of us didn’t have women included in our own historical studies. Especially if you teach world or Asian history then another thing educators have to think about is the inclusion of Asian women and in this country, finding sources…
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Agrippina the Younger: A New Take
Agrippina the Younger will never, ever have a different narrative. Contemporary historians hated her guts and every historian after believed her to be a truly horrid human being because of the writings of the contemporary historians. The best she can hope for is what I am going to write about her and unfortunately, my readership…
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Queen Seondeok Short Read
Queen Seondeok was Queen regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. She is also ignored in Asian history classes and world history classes (at least here in the US) and that needs to be corrected. Queen Seondeok lived from c. 595-610 – 647 and ruled Silla for 15 years. She is remembered…
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Chinese Women’s History Short Reads
I don’t want to contribute to the deletion of women from history and that is certainly true when teaching Asian history. Unfortunately, for many reasons, the American resources that schools often use, whether it is for Asian history or world history, never include more than one woman, Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China.…
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Inventors Week: Which Women Do We Include?
A small list of women inventors to add to your inventors week curriculum.
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History Needs More Women: Ways to Encourage Girls to Study History
We need to teach more about women in order to get more women to become historians.
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TpT Resources for Women’s History Month
Celebrate Women’s History Month with my collection of women-driven history resources.
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