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Women's History
By Lori 2

The monologues I have came from books put out by the American Association of University Women. The books are called Profiles of Women Past and Present Volumes 1 and 2. I will post some of the information on each woman.
Perhaps then you can divide your class into interview partners to do a bit of research on the woman they are interested in. The interviewer needs to do research, too. These are the women covered in the books I mentioned.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
America's First Woman Physician
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
Solo Transatlantic Aviator
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
Pioneer

Computer Scientist

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Poet (Wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty)

Annie Oakley (1860-1926)
Sharpshooter

Sandra Day O'Connor
(1930- ) First Woman U.S> Supreme Court Justice

Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986)
Artist

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Author

Sally Ride (1951- )
First American Woman in Space

Eleanor Roosevelt ((1884-1952)
Humanitarian and U.N. Delegate

Sacagawea (1788-1812)
Guide to Lewis and Clark Expedition

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 -1902)
Woman Suffrage Leader

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
Abolitionist

Babe Didrikson Zaharias ((1914-1956)
Champion Athlete

Marian Anderson (1902-1993)
Concert Singer

Maya Angelou (1928- )
poet, author

Judith Baca ((1946 - )
Artist

Susan Butcher (1954 - )
Iditarod Champion

Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
Founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA

Wilma Mankiller (1945 -- )
Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation

Vilma Martinez (1943 - )
Civil Rights Leader

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist

Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Astronomer

Julia Morgan (1872-1957)
Architect

Alice Paul ((1885-1977)
Women's Suffrage Leader

Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935)
Mountaineer

Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915)
First Native American Woman Doctor

Wilma Rudolph (1940 -1994)
Olympic Gold Medalist

Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)
author

I do have a few monologues that I have written myself for some girls that I can try to post later that follow along the same lines as those featured in these books. (They are in my notebook at school). The books were not terribly expensive and I have used them to add women's history to several units I teach.

Another idea for teachers with many girls in their classrooms as opposed to boys is to play What's My Line with the girls portraying the a historic woman.