The Victorians - Votes for Women - historical debate and investigation

Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:

A collection of nine quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the campaign for votes for women.

Learning Objectives:
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.

Learning Outcomes:

Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against allowing women the vote.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of allowing women the vote.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) allowing women the vote.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of allowing women the vote.
• Produce their own written narrative about the campaign for women to be allowed to vote.