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2022 Vol 6: Carolina Cuisine: History and Science of Food

The Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Quiet Power Women Yielded Through Their Kitchens

Jashonai Payne, 4th Grade, Clear Creek Elementary School

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Synopsis: Looking to enhance the EL Curriculum’s Module Four on Women’s Suffrage? Well, this is the unit for you! This unit creates opportunities for students to talk with the women in their family through an interview to see how being a woman or a girl growing up may have affected how they were treated in their families, as well as the chores or responsibilities they may been given. This unit also delves into how some women used their limited power and abilities in the 1920s by wielding their influence and voices through their kitchens and cooking. There are various activities that one can complete with their students that focus on the Module’s spotlighted novel, The Hope Chest by Karen Schwabach. This includes an anticipatory set of questions, vocabulary charts, internet research on key figures of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, foods of the time, and comprehension questions to get teachers started on the first several chapters of this amazing book. 

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

“No Boundaries”

Mary McElhaney, 7th Grade, Mountain Island Lake Academy

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Southern Children's Literature

The Meaning of Family and Home in the New South

Jashonai Payne, 4th Grade, Clear Creek Elementary

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Childhood and the City Space in Literature

Celebrating and Exploring Diversity and Community through Multicultural Literature with integrated Arts: Our “Maybe Something Beautiful”

Julie Soto-Pendleton, 2nd Grade, University Park Creative Arts

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