![]() ![]() As they share, define any unfamiliar vocabulary (e.g., poll tax, ratified) and check for understanding. Once students have formed their “human timeline,” have them share aloud in chronological order, reading their date and its corresponding event.Ask each team to work on one side of the room to create a “human timeline,” lining up in chronological order as quickly as possible. ![]() Have students divide into two teams, according to their cards: 1776–19–present.After they do, you might point out that that the common story of voting in the United States is one of continuous expansion: The right to vote is extended and extended and extended again until all Americans are included. Have one or two students share these stories. Ask all students to take two minutes and write a sentence or two that tells “the story of voting rights” we get when we only consider the Constitutional Amendments.Distribute the Voting Rights Cards, and have the five students with “Constitutional Amendment” cards line up in chronological order.This is a good time to introduce the idea of that there’s a “story of voting rights” most of us are familiar with, and that many believe that in the United States, the fight for voting rights ended in the 1960s. Ask them to write down one fact they already know about the topic and have two or three students share out. Start with a warm-up to get students thinking about the history of voting and voting rights in the United States.Where necessary, the procedure for this lesson includes adaptations for classes meeting online. We are publishing this lesson in the fall of 2020, as many educators are teaching remotely. Voter suppression can be legal and organized (for example, literacy tests or laws limiting the number of polling places), illegal and organized (for example, mailers or robocalls telling people to vote on the wrong day), or illegal and unorganized (for example, an individual showing up to a polling place to intimidate others into not voting). Voter Suppression (noun): an effort or activity designed to prevent people from voting by making voting impossible, dangerous or just very difficult. The verb “ disenfranchise” means to take the right to vote away from a person or group of people. The verb “ enfranchise” means to grant the right to vote to a person or group of people. This usually refers to the right to vote. Franchise (noun): a right or privilege that a government guarantees its people. ![]()
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