Politics

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 TeachWithMovies.com announces publication of curriculum materials to assist American History teachers who are developing lesson plans on the suffrage movement in the U.S. Classes in World History or on nonviolent mass action as a world-wide method for causing social change, will also derive great benefit from showing the film. The materials are centered around the HBO movie, Iron Jawed Angels, a film which accurately portrays the false imprisonment and torture suffered by militant suffragists who refused to stop picketing the White House during the First World War. The classroom materials offered by TWM include oral history interviews with two suffragists, detailed historical background that includes an examination of both original and secondary sources, a description of what is and is not accurate in the movie, discussion questions, and writing assignments. A full description of this important story is left out of most history textb...