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The School House Rocks videos (most if not all the clips can be found on schooltube) are a useful and different way to review some major events and themes covered during a U.S. History course. (It also might be useful to show these just before a final exam or state assessment.) The clips are short and can be covered in a relatively short amount of class time.
Prior to watching, the students complete a viewing sheet to see how many students already know they answers. At the end of each segment, the class discusses the themes associated with each cartoon. The cartoons also can be show individually during the point of the year that you cover a particular topic.
The goal for each video is to share:
- Pre-veiwing questions.
- The video.
- The lyrics.
- The themes.
Below is the worksheet I give to the students along with a few “teacher” notes. Hopefully both are useful.
Suffering ’til Suffrage
Pre-Viewing Questions (to test prior knowledge)
1. What are the biggest inventions in the last 3 years? How do these inventions improve our lives?
Sufferin’ ’til Suffrage
Sufferin’ ’til Suffrage
Yeah! Hurray!)
Now you have heard of Women’s Rights
And how we’ve tried to reach new heights
If we’re “all created equal”
That’s us too!
(Yeah!)
But you will probably not recall
That it’s not been too, too long at all
Since we even had the right to
Cast a vote
(Well!)
Well, sure, some men bowed down and called us “Mrs.” (Yeah!)
Let us hang the wash out and wash the dishes (Huh!)
But when the time rolled around to elect a president
What did they say, Sister (What did they say?)
They said, uh, “See you later, alligator
And don’t forget my, my mashed potatoes
Because I’m going downtown to cast my vote for president”
Oh, we were suffering until suffrage
Not a woman here could vote, no matter what age
Then the 19th Amendment struck down that restrictive rule (Oh yeah!)
And now we pull down on the lever
Cast our ballots and we endeavor
To improve our country, state, county, town, and school
(Tell them about it!)
Those pilgrim women who
Who braved the boat
Could cook the turkey, but they
They could not vote
Even Betsy Ross, who sewed the flag, was left behind that first election day
(What a shame, Sisters!)
Then Susan B. Anthony (yeah!) and Julia Howe
(Lucretia!) Lucretia Mott, (and others!) they showed us how
They carried signs and marched in lines
Until at long last the law was passed
Oh, we were suffering until suffrage
Not a woman here could vote, no matter what age
Then the 19th Amendment struck down that restrictive rule (Oh yeah!)
And now we pull down on the lever
Cast our ballots and we endeavor
To improve our country, state, county, town, and school (Right on! Right on!)
Yes, the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule (Right on! Right on!)
Yes, the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule
(Yeah, yeah!
Yeah, yeah!
Right on!
We got it now!)
Since 1920
Sisters, unite!
Vote on!
Themes:
Women’s Rights
Betsy Ross
Susan B. Anthony
Julia Howe
Lucretia Mott
the 19th Amendment