10 Women Who Helped Shape America
Edited by Sarah Glasscock
Grades 4-8
These plays are 5-15 pages long with 5-15 characters and activities to help teach.
Exploration
Frabcusca Gubestrisa (mid 1500's) : Exploring America
Colonization
Pocahontas (c1595-1617): Between two Worlds
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643): An Outspoken Woman
American Revolution
Daughters of Liberty (formed in 1766): Spinning for Liberty
Nancy Ward (C 1738-1824): Nanyehi, Beloved Woman
The First Woman Doctor
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910): The Word No Never Stopped Her
Women's Rights
Lucy Stone (1818-1893): Changkng Old Ideas
Civil War
Ellen Craft (1827-1897): A Train Ride to Freedom
Civil Rights
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): Writing the Wrongs
Hawaii's Last Queen
Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1921): Aloha Oe, Farewell to You