One’s Right To Vote!

First students will review the video clip on the history of women’s right to vote: Telling Times - http://www.cpac.ca/asx/tt_history_of_vote_eng.asx 9462695

Second students will review the CBC video on Voting in Canada: How a privilege became a right http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/elections/topics/1450/

Third students will review this video Historical Minutes – Nellie McClung: http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10643

 

Note:  the url's noted above will have to be cut and paste and placed in the address box of the website and not into the Google search box, as this site does not allow me to load these files.

 

Once students have analyzed these video clips they will be able to determine the focus of their research. Students will begin their research by looking at some of these topic areas as well as other's they have identified from their video reviews:

- 90th anniversary of women's right to vote in Canada
- Human Rights in Canada: A historical perspective
- 1960! That's when all Canadian women were allowed to vote
- Timelines: history of the vote
- Current events: Federal, Provincial, and Municipal elections
- Nellie McClung
- Suffrage Movement - Canada and the USA
- Apathy
- What is happening in the world today regarding women's right to vote?
- Interview a woman that you know and ask them about their personal experiences with voting

 

Write a one page essay expressing your findings from this research stating your stand on the issue of one's right to vote and what that means to you.

 

Write a strong artist statement expressing your opinion and point of view on one's right to vote.

 

Brainstorm visual ideas in your sketchbook to develop your visual statement in support of your artist statement.

 

Create an artwork on canvas, paper, or board using the elements of art to express your visual statement on social justice and responsibility regarding one's right to vote, using a medium of your choice – photography, drawing, painting, or mixed media.

 

Image from: http://www.elections.ca/gen/his/images/chap2_img20.jpg