"Ain't I a Woman?"

If you could travel back in time for Sojourner Truth's speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention, you would be nodding when she asks the rhetorical question "Ain't I a Woman?" Hear more of the former slave's logical appeals here.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: So Much to Buy, Facts About Marketing to Children, Responsible Marketing, Marketing to kids, America the Not-So-Beautiful, the insanity of selling junk food, Ain't I a Woman?, Remarks to the U.N., Failure to Ban, It's Perverse, But It's Also Pretend, Screen Time?
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  1. racket
    a loud and disturbing noise
    Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
  2. fix
    informal terms for a difficult situation
    I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
  3. ditch
    a long narrow excavation in the earth
    That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.
  4. puddle
    a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
    Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!
  5. gather
    collect in one place
    I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!
  6. lash
    a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
    I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could get it--and bear the lash as well!
  7. grief
    intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one
    I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!
  8. intellect
    knowledge and mental ability
    Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? (member of audience whispers, "intellect")
  9. measure
    a container of standard capacity to obtain fixed amounts
    If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
  10. oblige
    provide a service or favor for someone
    Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
Created on Fri Aug 29 12:53:14 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Aug 29 16:29:32 EDT 2014)

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