Gender
This character feels a strange mix of grief and freedom after her husband's death.
What is "The Story of an Hour’s" Mrs. Mallard?
This writer was kidnapped into slavery and tells the story of survival and injustice.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
This book exposed the dangerous conditions in meatpacking factories.
What is “The Jungle Opened Eyes”?
This document claims that all men are created equal.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These two women both challenge the limited roles of women in society.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Mallard?
This woman’s speech lists ways society has denied women their basic rights.
What is “The Declaration of Sentiments” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This poem describes how Native American children were taken from their culture.
What is “Indian Boarding School” by Louise Erdrich?
The poor in this novel are shown to be treated as tools, not people.
What is The Jungle (referenced in “The Jungle Opened Eyes”)?
This founding text promises rights like free speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These texts show how people in power try to control people’s beliefs or identity.
What are “Indian Boarding School” and “The Scarlet Letter”?
This symbol on Hester Prynne’s clothing marks her as a moral outsider.
What is the scarlet letter "A" in The Scarlet Letter?
This July 4th speech questions how a nation can celebrate freedom while others are enslaved.
What is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass?
The idea that workers are easily replaced reveals this ugly truth about class.
What is that society values profit over people?
This speech by Franklin supports the Constitution even though it’s not perfect.
What is “Speech in the Convention”?
These texts challenge whether America has lived up to its promise of equality.
What are “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and the Declaration of Independence?
This podcast connects women’s voting rights to a larger push for equal voices in democracy.
What is “Giving Women the Vote”?
This court case ended legal school segregation, highlighting society’s unfair treatment of Black students.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This character is punished not just for her sin but also for being lower in social power.
Who is Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter?
This poem shows how a church once used for protests still echoes the power of people’s voices.
What is “Old South Meeting House” by January Gill O’Neil?
These texts highlight how being “different” makes people into outsiders, even when they contribute to society.
What are “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” and “The Jungle Opened Eyes”?
Her quiet reaction to freedom shows how deeply society has controlled women's roles.
Who is Mrs. Mallard from “The Story of an Hour”?
This poem shares the anger of planting seeds you’ll never get to harvest.
What is “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” by Arna Bontemps?
Immigrants in this text represent how hard work doesn’t always mean success in America.
What is “The Jungle Opened Eyes”?
This author argues the Constitution grew over time to include more people, not just the elite.
Who is Akhil Reed Amar, author of America’s Constitution: A Biography?
These three characters—one enslaved, one shamed, and one overworked—each show how society punishes those who don’t “fit in.”
Who are Olaudah Equiano, Hester Prynne, and the immigrant workers in “The Jungle Opened Eyes”?