Marching with Aunt Susan
Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
by Claire Rudolf Murphy
illustrated by Stacey Schuett
level: read-aloud and discuss - 2nd - 5th grade
Independent reading - 2nd - 5th grade
read aloud time: about 8.5 minutes
28 picture book pages (richly illustrated)
+ 5 pages on the real Bessie, California and U. S. suffrage history, Susan’s bio, timeline, and further resources; suffrage scrapbook items on inside covers
vocabulary: strenuous, rally, suffrage vs. suffering, headquarters, factory, zeal, election, campaign, referendum
history which may need explaining: child labor, licking envelopes
summary:
--begins with Bessie, a real girl, being discriminated against as a girl
--Bessie’s Aunt Mary brings Susan B. Anthony to tea
--Bessie learns about the suffrage cause, visits factory girls, marches in a parade
--the 1895 California suffrage effort fails, but Bessie makes progress
questions:
1. Why did Bessie feel like women needed the vote?
unfair treatment as a girl, factory girls’ lives
2. What did the women do to try to win the vote?
unite, invite Susan, rally, posters, march, letters, give money
3. Who disagreed with them, and how? Bessie’s brothers, male hecklers, egg-thrower, Rita’s Dad removing her
4. How did Susan, Mama, and Bessie deal with disappointment?
persistence, moving on
11 авг 2020
