Language and Content

Think About “Striving for Change”

Check Your Understanding

1.–2. Work with a partner to complete each item.

  • 1. Identify Sequence Think about the sequence of events. Make a time line like the one below. Then complete the time line by adding the key events that match the year.

    1912

    1912

    1917

    1918

  • 2. Sum It Up Use your time line to tell how women got the right to vote.

Review Vocabulary

3.–7. Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

Thousands of ______ marched to the White House in 1917. Many of them carried ______ during the march. They came to ______. At that time, they could not ______ in elections. They wanted President Wilson to give them the ______ to vote.

Vocabulary

  • protest

  • right

  • sign

  • vote

  • women

Write about Change illustration of pen icon

8. Write about something you think should be changed.