Social Justice Text Set: Equity and Fairness in Women's Rights. by Destiny M.

Essential Questions

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-18 22:14:31 UTC

What does it mean to be treated fairly? How are some people treated unfairly?
What are some reasons that people are treated unfairly?

How does this linked text set address issues involving equity and fairness regarding to women's rights and how will reading these texts impact my students?

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-18 22:17:35 UTC

This linked text set addresses issues involving equity and fairness in various ways. By examining the experiences snd looking through the lens of a marginalized group (women), we are able to understand what women in the United States had to go overcome throughout history and still have to go through to be treated equally and fairly. This text set highlights the struggles women face in achieving equal treatment and emphasizes the importance of fairness for all, regardless of appearance, background, or abilities. This social justice text set even encompass challenges that other groups have had to face that find themselves in more than one minatory category. Different marginalized groups such as people of color, minority women, LGBTQ+, low-income individuals, the disabled, and many more have had to go through the same issues and hardships that women in the States have had to overcome and still overcome. People come from all different kinds of cultures, families, and backgrounds, and those differences should be respected and celebrated. Promoting inclusivity, empathy, and justice ensures that everyone has the opportunity to thrive and live with dignity and respect, fostering a more equitable world for future generations.

Brave Girl

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-27 23:36:48 UTC

This book is a biography about Clara Lemlich, a young immigrant girl who comes to New York with her family and becomes a garment worker, working alongside other immigrant girls to make clothing. Everyone that works with Clara is underpaid, and Clara persuades everyone around her to fight for their rights and better pay. This book connects to my essential questions because this clearly depicts a woman (child in this case) being treated unfairly in the workplace and showing why and how she fought for her rights.

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-27 23:43:18 UTC

Chelsea Clinton introduces children who are feminists, mini activists and other little kids who are ready to to follow the footsteps of thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted. This book relates heavily to my theme and essential questions, but also to my geared audience, which is a second grade classroom. This book is easily digestible for the age group but also evokes great conversation to the topic.

Who is Ruby Bridges?

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-27 23:48:59 UTC

This video is a great way to educate and connect students to the theme and essential questions, while also showcasing a child who belongs to more than one minority group, fighting for her rights to go to school where she pleased. This also exposed students to the different kind of rights different kind fo women had to fight for, bringing up the discussion of how hard some women had to fight compared to others.

Rosie the Riveter

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-27 23:58:28 UTC

Rosie the Riveter is a United States icon for women who were working during World War II. Yes, students may think that its so far away, but you could use this propoganda to explain to students what it was like for many women to not be allowed to work, speaking on the how unfair it was to not be at will. This could then lead into the conversation of the civil rights movement, correlating with the theme and essential questions of this text set.

The Woman's Hour (Adapted for Young Readers): Our Fight for the Right to Vote

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-28 00:16:57 UTC

This book would be a great class read or read-aloud book for these specified students for the theme of this text set. This book will teach students about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. This book encompasses the journeys of many kinds of women, there never being a sole face for what women's rights may look like.

Before She Was Harriet

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-28 00:21:18 UTC

Many people, especially students in the second grade, will already have prior knowledge to who Harriet Tubman is, being one of the faces for freedom and having human rights. But, in this book, I wanted to show students that these women who fought for rights are still people who have hopes, fears, dreams, and wants. A lot of the time when talking about history and current events, people tend to disassociate the person from what they do/are known for. I want to mitigate that as soon as possible, wanting students to feel empathy and apathy for those that put their lives on the line for many people to be able to live the way they can.

Hidden Figures

destinymartin23 — 2025-03-28 00:24:07 UTC

To end off this text set, I decided to add a text that encompasses the lives of women after many hardships, wanting to show that women are still fighting to be heard, just, and equal to their counterparts 'til this day. This aligns with my essential questions and theme because it showcases women in a STEM field, a field that they had previously just had to fight to be in, only to be overlooked when giving credit for the space race.