Title: Voting Rights Forum
Course: BC-Social Studies 9-1.0.0.0-XT > Section: Unit 2: Innovations and Inventions

In this forum, you will do research on the history of women’s voting rights in a country of your choice. You will create a 250- to 300-word summary of what you have learned in your research. Your paragraph should answer some or all of the following questions:

- What actions and arguments did key leaders make to bring about this change?
- What arguments did opponents of women voting use to argue that things should not change?
- When did women receive the right to vote?
- Did all women receive the right to vote right away, or did some have to wait? Why was this?

Try to choose a country that:

- Gained voting rights within a few years of 1919
- Still allows voting in free and fair elections today
- None of your classmates has already written about

Use only reliable online sources, and be sure to include a bibliography entry at the end of your report. You may use an online bibliography creation tool like mybib.com or bibme.org.

Once you have written your own paragraph, respond to two classmates’ posts with a brief 50- to 100-word response. Find and write about one additional interesting fact about the push for women’s voting rights in that country so that you can add to each other’s learning.

Forum Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Assessment of causes and consequences | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | I show a beginning ability to assess how the actions of individuals can affect events and developments. | I show a satisfactory ability to assess how the actions of individuals can affect events and developments. | I show a complete ability to assess how the actions of individuals can affect events and developments. | I show an exemplary ability to assess how the actions of individuals can affect events and developments.