{"id":1998,"date":"2009-11-15T20:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1998"},"modified":"2009-11-15T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:23:59","slug":"teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-elizabeth-leads-the-way-elizabeth-cady-stanton-and-the-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/15\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-elizabeth-leads-the-way-elizabeth-cady-stanton-and-the-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Civics with Children’s Literature: Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth\u00a0Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote<\/a>\u00a0written\u00a0by Tanya Lee Stone & illustrated by\u00a0Rebecca Gibbon,\u00a0talks about how life use to be before everyone was equal.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote<\/em>\u00a0starts off with a question that gets your mind thinking. “What would you do if someone told you you can’t be what you want to be because your a girl?” It talks about how\u00a0men had a better life, and how a woman lost everything because “Without a husband, the law stated, nothing belonged to her. Elizabeth was horrified by this unfairness.” She set out to do everything men could do. Later on she gathered women together and shared with them\u00a0ideas that\u00a0she and her friends had written down in a document. “Their Declaration of Right and Sentiments challenged the idea from the Declaration of Independence that “all men<\/em> were created equal.””<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote <\/em>is a great resource when you are studying equality under the law. It incorporates how things were in the past, and one woman’s fight to change it. It is connected to VA SOL Social Studies\u00a0Civics\u00a03.11 (a).\u00a0The student will explain the importance of the basic principles that form the foundation of a republican form of government by describing the individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and equality under the law.<\/p>\n

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