Format
This program guides participants through an examination of primary resources and demonstrations to learn how female telephone operators contributions were critical to effective U.S. Army wartime communications. Participants will be encouraged to answer questions based on a review of primary sources. Time will be allowed for questions and answers.
Objectives
This program guides participants through an examination of primary resources and demonstrations to learn how female telephone operators contributions were critical to effective U.S. Army wartime communications. Participants will be encouraged to answer questions based on a review of primary sources. Time will be allowed for questions and answers.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
State Standards
History and Social Science Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools
United States History 1865 to Present
VUS.11 The student will apply history and social science skills to analyze the emerging role of the United States in world affairs during the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries by
D) describing the events and leaders that lead to prohibition, the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, including, but not limited to Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Burns, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Sojourner Truth
Virginia and United States History
VUS.12 The student will apply history and social science skills to understand key international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies of the 1920s and 1930s by
F)examining the changing role of women in society and in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and