Women's History

We offer to you 5 free printable lesson plans with audio downloads. Hear the inspiring stories of our favorite women storytellers. Also hear a Native American man remembering the life and actions of an Alaskan woman and justice pioneer.

www.RaceBridgesForSchools.com/womenshistory

Listen to these stories and use the lesson plans with your students of moving stories of inclusion and exclusion, loss and hope, past and present.

Use these stories in your classroom to inspire and challenge your students to reflect on their world-view and to broaden their horizons.

Use these stories as discussion starters for a faculty inservice session to prompt and animate discussion about race-relations and inclusion.

The 5 lesson plans come with complete text as well as audio, teacher guides, student activities and further resources on related themes.

These units are also suitable for young adult group discussion as springboards on the subjects of race and racism.



Olga
Loya
Latina Storyteller Olga Loya tells excerpts from her original story: Being Mexican American : Caught Between Two Worlds - Nepantla. Growing up Mexican American in Los Angeles. Caught between the Latino and Anglo cultures, she realizes that she might belong to an even wider family and community and that perhaps there is a way to live with them all. Warm and spirited.





Linda
Gorham
African American storyteller Linda Gorham tells two stories. One is I Am Somebody : Story Poems for Pride and Power. This an upbeat and moving celebration of Linda’s family tree and heritage. The lesson plan guides teachers to invite “pride poems” from their students. In her story Rosa Parks : One of Many Who Sat Down to Stand Up Linda personalizes the words and action in a story of the famed Rosa Parks. The lesson plan explores the many other heroes of the civil rights movement who "sat down' to stand up for justice. Self-worth, dignity and courage come alive.





Gene
Tagaban
Native American storyteller Gene Tagaban remembers Elizabeth Peratrovich, Tlingit woman, of Petersburg, Alaska. She attended Western Washington State University. When she returned with a new husband to live in Juno, no one would rent her a home because she was native. This was the limit to Elizabeth. She said: “No more signs. We need better housing, good jobs and good education for the people. And the right to sit wherever we wanted.” Gene Tagaban lovingly remembers the life of Elizabeth Peratrovich through the stories told to him by his own grandmother. The story remembers the shining day, after much struggle and bigotry of the passage of the Alaskan Anti-Discrimination Bill in1945, 20 years before Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus. This account is part of Gene Tagaban’s longer story of identity and belonging : Search Across the Races : I Am Indopino ... Or How to Answer the Question : "Who Are You?".





Dovie
Thomason
Native American storyteller Dovie Thomason tells her true story: The Spirit Survives: The American Indian Boarding School Experience: Then and Now. This story weaves together personal narrative and historical accounts about the Indian boarding schools to reveal how they were used to decimate native culture and how some Indians stood up to them. Shocking and Inspiring.





Anne
Shimojima
Japanese American Storyteller Anne Shimojima tells her original story Hidden Memory: Internment: Knowing Your Family's Story and Why it Matters. About her family in the United States, especially during the time of World War II when some of her family were sent to the Japanese-American internment camps. Explores in an engaging way xenephobia, racism and being "unseen" in society.Courage and resiliance in a story that is rarely told.




Use these units to mark Womens' History Month or at any time. Other Lesson Plans on a variety of diversity themes can be found at:

www.RaceBridgesForSchools.com/womenshistory



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