Curricula
Elementary
- “Worcester’s Women’s Rights Convention of 1850”
- “Color Her Story”
- Eliza Betsey Bowen Jumel (1775 or 1769-1865)
- “Rags to Riches to Traitors: The Story of Madame Jumel”
“An Interview with the Ghost of Madame Jumel”
“Music, dance, composers as it relates to Madam Jumel’s life” - Newspaper in Education: “Notable Women of Worcester County”
- Clara Barton
Jennie Cora Clough Busby
Josephine Wright Chapman
Dorothea Dix
Katherine Forbes Erskine
Abby Kelley Foster
Sarah Goodridge
Addie Gillette Hayden
Hepsibeth Crosman Hemenway
Ellen Cheney Johnson
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Frances Perkins
Mary White Rowlandson
Lucy Stone
Secondary
- “Yours for Humanity—Abby”
- Teacher resources and. a timeline paralleling national events during the life of Abby Kelley Foster will help audiences better understand America during the mid 19th century and Abby’s goals. Pre and post lessons are available in PDF format to help students better understand the issues raised by this play set in 1854. These include primary source documents and critical thinking activities with a Massachusetts History and Social Science Frameworks Menu for grades five through high school. The entire off-line curriculum packet is provided to each booking school or may be obtained from WWHP for $10.
- “Angels & Infidels” Curriculum
- Pre and post curricular materials designed to support this dramatic presentation of the First National Woman’s Rights Convention by Louisa Burns-Bisogno features related convention materials, an 1850 railway map, an 1851 map of Worcester’s Main Street, biographical information on several hard-to-find personalities who attended this historic event in 1850: Sarah H. Earle, Rev. John B. Forman, and Abby Hills Price, and lesson ideas for the portraits at Mechanics Hall.
Related Curricula
- United States Trek: September 2000 - May 2001
- Bring US History to life for your K-12 students! Join our roving historians visiting historic sites and people across the US. U. S. Trek reporters came to Women 2000 and posted these free lessons available anytime on the Internet.
- Rebecca - What's got 7 layers of clothes and a broken rib?
- Becky - Get out of the kitchen! It's time for equal rights! Or is it?
- Kevin - It's my last name and I'll keep it if I want to!
- Daphne - Stirring the cauldron of equality
- Team - Depression, anxiety and irritability: the low down on being too thin
- “Making the World Better” Curriculum
Activities & Exhibits
“We’re still hanging around-Can you find us?”
This on-going project encourages citizens to share information about women whose portraits are hanging in buildings around Worcester County. As models, WWHP offers the portraits at the Worcester Historical Museum with brief annotations compiled by Sherron Rosenlund, the Mechanics Hall portraits and links to the American Antiquarian Society.
Worcester Historical Museum
- Hepsibeth Bowman/ Crosman Hemenway (1763-1847)
- Mary Pratt Crompton (1834-1895)
- Selina E. Davis (1809-1889)
- Eliza Daniels Dodge (1822-1907)
- Abby Kelley Foster (1811-1887)
- Alice Chase Gage (1865-1940)
- Katherine Chapin Higgins (1847-1924)
- Phebe Stearns Mirick (1810-1877)
- Ann Maria (Bryant) Pratt (1816-1869)
- Helen A. Waite (1884-1966)
- Emily Burling Waite (1887-1980)
American Antiquarian Society
- Sophia Dwight Foster Burnside (1787-1871)
- Rebecca Faulkner Foster Clarke (1832-1927)
- Eleanor Daniels (B. 1917)
- Eleanor Grace Goddard Daniels (1889-1981)
- Rebecca Faulkner Foster (1761-1834)
- Lydia Stiles Foster (1806-1887)
- The Foster Children, 1838
- Georgia Grace Watson Goddard (1866-1935)
- Marion Williams Goddard (1893-1918)
- Mary Stiles Newcomb (1807-1872)
- Mary Maccarty Stiles (1775-1838)
- Mary Maccarty Stiles (1807-1872)
- Mary Thomas Fowle Thomas (1750-1818)
- Mary Weld Thomas (C. 1768-1825)