Bedtime Reading at home often includes books that are not only entertaining
but incorporate information about history, geography, or some other topic so
that not only can we practice her reading but that we can talk about other
topics and expanding her learning. It is with that in mind that I selected
‘I could do that! Ester Morris Get Women the Vote’ to Mrs. Mohan’s second grade
class. It tells the story of a Esther Morris and her endeavor to get women
the right to vote in the new territory of Wyoming in 1869. It mixed in
information about slavery, western expansion and the rights of people to
participate in their government with a story of a woman who opens businesses,
moves to the wild west and fights for the right to vote. Hopefully it gives the
girls in the class an appreciation of what their foremothers had to do to make
them equal in society. Most importantly it demonstrated what a
determined person, who won’t let others tell her what to do, can change the
world. What better lesson for a group of second graders to learn? No
one can tell you that you can’t do something, as long as you believe you can and
work hard to achieve it. Self-determination and self esteem is a great
lesson to learn at any age.
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