![]() (See EDSITEment lesson The Argument of the Declaration.)Ĭ.11-12.6-Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text. ![]() Have student compare arguments put forward in the Declaration of Sentiments document to the Declaration of Independence.documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features. The Parts of the Declaration.Ĭ.11-12.9-Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. To assist them in thinking about the parts, have them consult Activity 3. Ask students to identify the parts of the argument work together to make the case for women’s independence. The Declaration of Sentiments is modeled on the Declaration of Independence.Ask them to quote that idea, and put it in their own words.Ĭ.11-12.5-Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole. After identifying the parts of the Declaration of Sentiments and their function, students should be able to ascertain the central idea.Teachers may adapt the following activities aligned to the Common Core for use in the classroom.Ĭ.11-12.2-Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. The Common Core State Standards Appendix B designates The Declaration of Sentiments an English Language Arts text exemplar Information text for grades 11 – College and Career Readiness. Learn more about the evolution of women's rights, from this seminal document to the suffragist arguments that finally prevailed to win the right to vote for women by visiting the EDSITEment lesson plan, Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement. It provided a point of departure in the struggle for equality of rights that continues to the present day. It can be argued that this “Women’s Declaration of Independence,” as it is sometimes referred to, was the single most important factor in spreading the word about the burgeoning women’s rights movement around the country. Working from the premise that to be just government must derive from the consent of the governed, it went on to demand for women “immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.” It asserted that women possessed the same natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as men. The text of the document was modeled on the language and argumentative framework of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments mirrored the spirit of reform that was in the air in this period-the concept of natural rights was continuously being invoked first to create and then to enlarge the meaning of democracy. At its conclusion, 68 women and 32 men had signed a document calling for American women to be extended the same civil and political rights that American men enjoyed, including suffrage. Seneca Falls’ Declarationĭespite the short notice and the organizers’ cautiously optimistic expectations, 300 women and men turned out for the convention. ![]() ![]() …” The advertisement first appeared on Tuesday, July 11, and named Lucretia Mott as the keynote speaker. A notice was delivered to the offices of the Seneca County Courier announcing, “A Convention to discuss the social, civic and religious condition and rights of Woman will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, New York, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July. While sitting at the Hunts' tea table, the group decided to act upon their frustrations over women’s inequality by calling for a convention to be held the following week. The discussion that afternoon centered on the discontent women felt over their legal and civil status in America. This was no social event, but a gathering of female leaders who had been involved in the Quaker movement for the abolition of slavery. The Hunts also invited several other women: Mary Ann McClintock, wife of a Quaker minister, and Lucretia Mott and her sister Martha Coffin Wright. Jane and Richard Hunt, well-to-do Quakers living in New York just three miles from the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, had invited their neighbor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton to tea on July 15, 1848. ![]() Opening words, The Declaration of Sentiments "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ![]()
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