Elementary Library

Week 3 Why do people want to vote? Why would someone not want to allow others to vote?

Unit 4 3-4

STUDENT OBJECTIVES

I CAN…

Students will analyze media to identify the audience, the creator, and the accuracy of information. Students will analyze media messages for the possible impact on the viewer; whether to inform, persuade, or entertain.

I can identify the audience, the creator, and the accuracy of information of media. I can analyze media messages for the main purpose: to inform, persuade, or entertain.

RESOURCES & MATERIALS

VOCABULARY

Audience - those viewing, reading, listening to media

Choose 1 book per grade: ●​ The Voice That Won The Vote: How One Woman’s Words Made History by Elisa Boxer ●​ How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ●​ Vote for Our Future by Margaret McNamara Utah Women Suffrage Primary & Secondary Sources, printed and displayed either on tables or around the library.

Creator - the one making the media

Accuracy - being precise and correct

I Inform - to share news or facts

Persuade - to convince them to do or believe something

Entertain - to keep people amused, interested, or enjoying themselves

Video of History of Utah Women’s Suffrage

Suffrage - the right to vote

Amendment - a change or update to a legal document

Primary source - a work that gives original information. It comes from a time being studied or from a person who was involved in the events being studied Secondary source - documents, texts, images, and objects about an event created by someone who typically referenced the primary sources for their information

CROSS-CURRICULAR INTEGRATIONS USBE Social Studies Core Standards, Grades 3 & 4

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