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Women's history
By Lori 2

With my daughter's girl scout troop, each girl chose a woman and portrayed her. In a school situation with both boys and girls, I have toyed with the idea of having a "talk show or news show" with one of the boys as an anchor
and other boys interviewing each of the women at the "scene." I have used this format before with characters from literature, famous men in the wars (women, too, there just aren't many of them), inventors and scientists, African-Americans for Black History month, etc.
Some of the women that I have a monologue for are:
Wilma Rudolph -- can also get info from the book Wilma Unlimited
Barbara

McClintock -- geneticist -- discovered that genes hop

Abigail Adams

Elizabeth Cady Stanto

Amelia Earhart

Grace Murray Hopper -- computer scientist/mathematician

Sandra Day O'Connor

Georgia O'Keefe

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sojourner Truth

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Rosa Parks

Annie Smith Peck

Maya Angelou

Wilma Mankiller - cheif of the Cherokee

Julia Morgan -- architect

Elizabeth Blackwell -- first woman doctor

Sally Ride

Barbara Jordan

Sacagawea

This concept makes for a fairly easy script since the interviewers work up their questions and the people being interviewed work up their responses. Also makes for a good research opportunity for both since both have to research the person.

Hope that helps.
Lori