Instructions for creating BOLT presentation (Booklet Overviewing Learning and Thinking)
1. Preparing the booklet:
a. Take two sheets of 8 ½ x 11 heavy paper, folded in half (hamburger style)
b. Measure and mark one inch from both edges along fold. Cut one sheet from edge to 1” mark.
Cut the other sheet between the marks (this has already been done for you)
c. .Bend and slip the one sheet with edge cuts into the slot cut in the second sheet to make a
book
d. Number the pages 1-8 (OK to leave 1/cover blank)
2. Contents of book – Subject: Women’s Suffrage Strategies and counter strategies
Drawing from your own knowledge and resources on the Library of Congress website, begin to create
the booklet, with the following information on each page, according to the following guidelines:
[pages]
1 – Cover – Title of project and your name
2 – Primary source that you have been given (glue/tape down)
3 – Identifying or background information on photo: Include Who, What, Where, When and citation for
source
4 – The Strategy - what strategy does this primary source present?
[suffrage strategies included: wrote letters to public officials; held protest marches; ;circulated
petitions; ; testified before public bodies; ;gave speeches, made appearances at public gatherings
such as state fairs. Also represented are anti-suffrage messages and strategies.
Include background information on this strategy: other examples, when was it used, who was a
prominent advocate of this type of strategy (people or organizations)
5 – The language of persuasion – on this page list vocabulary words found in suffrage speeches,
manuscripts, and advertising, as well as convention proceedings, for example (depending on age of
students): banner, broadside, editorial, pamphlet, delegate, declaration, proclamation, platform,
resolution, petition, picket line, strategy. Or you could focus on the origin of the word “suffrage” and
ensure it is distinguished in both origin and meaning from “suffer,” a common confusion among
students unfamiliar with this older word.
6 – Mission Accomplished! (Timeline: Voting Rights for Women) (see
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html)
Select key events and be sure to include the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment.
7 – Voting rights today
Search the internet to find what percentage of Americans vote, of Women; other facts of interest.
Write a concluding statement about the impact of women obtaining the right to vote and/or its impact
on you today.
8- back page – blank/credits, etc.