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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-11)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to examine the role of women in Chapters 1-11 of When Women Were Dragons. Bertha Green was a promising mathematician. However, she was expected to marry and stay home to care for her family and not have a career.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why did Bertha Green and Dr. Edna Wood become homemakers after marriage? Why did they not pursue careers? What comments did George Green make about Bertha and her mathematics skills? Why did he denigrate her talents? Why did he believe she should have given her place in college to a "smart boy" (28)? What role did he want his wife to play? Why did women at a munitions factory outside Portland, Oregon, have to give up their jobs when men returned from fighting during World War II? How did gender roles prevent them from keeping their jobs? What was...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3(e), 9-10.7, 11-12.3(e), 11-12.7
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