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9 Step Lesson Plan: Era of Reform

Name: Sheryl, Lily, Langston, Nick
CLASS: Bananas
DATE: April 7, 2008

9 Step Lesson Plan: Era of Reform

1. Lesson Plan Title:
- FIGHT 4 YOUR RIGHTS

2. Concept/Topic To Teach:
- Mistreatment of Woman and African American rights

3. Essential Question of Lesson:
- Who were the main people that stood up for our rights and changed history?

4. Connection:
- Quick-Write: Write a half page on what you think of the different movements.

5. Direct Teaching:
1. Lily talks about Sojourner Truth
2. Sheryl talks about Dorothea Dix
3. Nick talks about Horace Mann
4. Langston talks about fighting slavery
5. Lily talks about equal rights for women
6.Sheryl talks about Seneca Falls Convention
(write notes on board)

6. Step-By Step Explanation:
- Directions:
1. Unscramble the words.
2. When unscrambled use the words to fill in the sentences.

7. Student-Centered Activity:
- Work on “Super Scrambler”

8. Assessment:
- We walk around and make over the shoulder checks while answering questions

9. Closure:
- Ask students to share their answers.
- Ask a few questions to check for understanding.

Diary of Dorothea Dix

July 16, 1887

Dear Diary,

Today is just a day I felt like writing. I feel as if I can not breathe, as if the air from my lungs isn’t there. My stomach is in pain, as if I became plain. This disease feels like it’s been eating me away ever since I got it. When I got the disease I wasn’t thinking of myself. I was still concerned about the imprisoned mentally ill. Many people kept asking about it. Many people were very concerned, all but me.

It all started in when I began my teaching at the East Cambridge House of Correction. I started to teach there because I was doing good deeds for the church. The movement was called, “The Second Great Awakening.” When I first walked in I saw many things people shouldn’t see. The tortured woman chained to the walls just hanging there. My heart felt like it just fell to the floor and broke. I was to teach classes every Sunday, and every day I went to teach it felt like the first I time saw them over and over. It’s like my heart was also chained to the wall. Some would moan and come was cry in pain. After a year of teaching I finally decided to do something about it. So I travelled to Massachusetts to inspect the conditions of the insane asylums and prisons. When I would travel to a new place and enter a new prison or institution I would gather information about what happens in there and once I get all that I need I would go out to the public and speak to a crowd of maybe two to three hundred people. I travelled to many places and started a society that was for better treatment for the mentally ill.

Since the first visit to the Correction facility I thought of that as my motivation to help the imprisoned and mentally ill. I never fell in love with a person because helping people became my only love. I wasn’t really social even though I spoke to big crowds of people. I made many speeches about what happens to the people in the institutions or prisons. I met many interesting people like President Millard Fillmore and David Hothersall.

Most of the time I would enter an institution or a prison I would still be surprised no matter how many times I would see the sight of people hanging and naked in the cold, dark and dirty rooms that are sometimes crowded.

My coughing and pains have been getting worse through the years. Back then my sickness never really bothered me except for sometimes. Travelling has gotten harder for me to do. Lately, I get headaches and stomach pains. In 1881 I moved into the Trenton New Jersey Sate Hospital. That is one of the thirty two hospitals in North America, Europe and Japan that I established. I have lived in this apartment for about six years now. When I think back into my life I always think of the first day I learned how to read and write because that got my started with the teaching and if I never learned that I wouldn’t have visited the Corrections facility in Boston. Then I wouldn’t have helped the mentally ill people that were stuck in the prisons instead of the asylums.

I think I contributed too many things because of that first dream to become a teacher. I helped show that anyone, not just men, can start a society. I also helped about two thousand woman become nurses and help the Federal Government. I think my life has been extraordinary which is anything but ordinary. I went through the hardships and fights I had to do to get to this point now in my life. I will never regret what I did because what I did was something only a person with a courageous and big heart could do.

Sincerely,
Dorothea Dix

Event Summary

Click on the Time lines! :]

The main events we learned about throughout this chapter were mostly about the rights that we have today. Some of the events were The Second Great Awakening, the Reformers movement in the Treatment of Prisoners and the Mentally Ill, improvements in the Educational system, Slavery, Equal rights for all women, and the Declaration of Sentiments.

The Declaration of Sentiments was very similar to the Declaration of Independence because it had a list of complaints. However, instead of a list of bad things King George III did to the colonists, it was a list of things that the men did to the women that the women didn't like. They were fighting for their rights as a woman. They were fighting for the rights we are lucky to still have. The changes they made were changes that were needed. The Declaration of Sentiments was created at a convention that was held in Seneca Falls. Of the approximate 300 people who attended, 40 were men. Two people that created the Declaration of Sentiments were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; two women who fought for what they believed in.

Mott and Stanton met in 1840 at a World Anti-Slavery Convention. They were two very different people, yet they agreed on one thing: something had to be done about womens rights. These women fought for their rights for such a long time. The men treated them as if they were slaves, some men would beat their wives. The women would be stuck with the cleaning, cooking and taking care of the kids because men thought that was all they were capable of. The rights we have now are what the women back then fought for. The fight for no slavery actually started the movement for women's rights.Slavery was abolished in 1833. There were Abolitionists who were people that were against slavery. Sojourner Truth and Fredrick Douglass helped make the voices of the people more powerful. Sojourner Truth and Fredrick Douglass were former slaves. Fredrick escaped from slavery. Then he talked to a group of Abolitionists and told them about the treatments of slaves.
Horace Mann helped with the education of their young generation. Some of the kids only went to school for ten weeks in a year and the teachers were under paid. Horace Mann became the State's Supervisor of Education and he traveled around the other states. Most of the schools only allowed boys and not girls or African Americans. In the South they only allowed a few girls by yet no African Americans. In 1837 to the 1860's they began letting in women to the schools. Dorothea Dix was visiting a jail to teach the prisoners. She was just trying to do a good deed, but when she went in she saw what was happening to the prisoners like the mentally ill or maybe even the wrongly accused. After her visit she decided she wanted to help some of the prisoners, like the mentally ill or the ones accused for a small crime but punished for it. After her decision she traveled to other states and made reports about treatment that the mentally ill receive. Dix showed reformers, even women, could lead a society to make useful changes in the US. These events all lead together as if it was a path meant for those who choose to follow it. The path may lead to the success they had but they worked for it, they worked for that chance to say something many others wish they would have. Those thoughts started an important change in our country. History changed with people who decided their destiny for themselves instead of just following it.