This is a short thirty-minute lesson on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. In this lesson, students will react as a class to a quote from FEWH and then move into a sentence, phrase, word protocol.

Guiding Question: How did Frances Ellen Watkins Harper use her literary and oratorical talent to advance equality prior to and after the Civil War?

Supporting Question:

• What was life like for Black Americans in the post-Civil War United States?
• How did the lived experience of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper showcase the unique challenges black women faced in America in the aftermath of the Civil War?
• How can poetry all us to better under history?