Text Set: Womens

Suffrage Movement
Erin Zemaitis

Title Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign

for the Womens Right to Vote
Author Dean Robbins
Genre Realistic Fiction
Recommended Ages 4-8
Description Alice was outraged that women were unable to vote.
The story tells about her organizing parades, writing
letters and protesting and how President Wilson was
persuaded.
Activity We will discuss changes in character and talk about
how President Wilson changed from the beginning to
the end and what they believe caused him to change.

Title Around America to Win the Vote: Two suffragists, a

kitten, and 10,000 miles
Author Mara Rockliff
Genre Realistic Fiction
Recommended Ages 5-9
Description In April 1916, Nell Richardson, Alice Burke and their
little kitten set off on a road trip across the country to
spread the word about womens right to vote!
Activity We will use our large maps and map out their road
trip and take notes.

Title Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony votes for President

Author Ann Malaspina
Genre Realistic Fiction
Recommended Ages 5-9
Description This book tells the tale of how Susan B. Anthony
broke the law by voting and was then outrageously
found guilty and fined $100. It emphasizes how long
the struggle took and how fired up the suffragists
were.
Activity This story lends itself nicely to a mock trial.

Title Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and

the Right to Vote
Author Tanya Lee Stone
Genre Realistic Fiction
Recommended Ages 4-8
Description This book brilliantly describes the life of Elizabeth It
discusses her motivation and her life in more detail
and shines a spotlight on the importance of teamwork.
Activity After this story the class would split into groups for
various team building activities, i.e. human know,
lowering a broomstick to the ground, getting a hula
hoop around the circle quickly, building paper
structures, etc.

Title Elizabeth Started All the Trouble

Author Doreen Rappaport
Genre Realistic Fiction
Recommended 5-9
Ages
Description This book follows the womens suffrage
movement chronologically, emphasizing how long
and how many people it took for women to be
granted the right to vote.
Activity Following this story we would do a tableaux
activity, recreating scenes from the timeline.

Title Mary Walker Wears the Pants: The True Story of

Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero
Author Cheryl Harness
Genre Realistic Fiction
Recommended 6-9
Ages
Description This book tells the story of the unconventional
woman, Mary Walker. She wore pants, she was
one of the first women doctors and she was a
suffragist. She is also the only woman to receive
the medal of honor.
Activity I would invite the class to brainstorm some of the
conventions or assumptions of women in todays
world and wonder why we think that way and if
anything needs to change and how we can create
change.

Title Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a

Womans Race for the Presidency
Author Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Genre Non-Fiction
Recommended 5-10
Ages
Description In 1884, before women could even vote,
Belva Lockwood bravely ran for president.

Activity Create a comprehensive list of all the

women who have run for president and
compare their merits and characteristics.