In the USA, the entire month of March is Women's History Month. The purpose of Women's History Month is to increase awareness and knowledge of women's contributions: to take one month of the year to remember the contributions of notable, brave and ordinary women.
1. Share a biography
Do some research and share a short biography on a woman you learn about. Tell us where they are from and how they have positively affected the world or their community. Watch 2-3 about women you don’t know and share them in your class.
http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history
You can also loook through this list of women with Nobel prizes, like Malala Yousafazai, Mother Teresa and Marie Curie and focus on some of their efforts in Science, Education and Literature.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html
If you prefer, you can also share your knowledge of women in Basque or Spanish history that you know about!
2) Girl Rising
Next, watch this video focusing on an issue women have been working to change for decades and are finally making positive breakthroughs in the 21st century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk2Q7WLzn0s
Who and what is this story about and where does it take place?
2:45 How old was she when she first lived away from home and Why doesn’t she live with her parents?
4:40 What did they call her at the second place she revisits?
5:09 How did she cope or ‘get through’?
6:30 How old was she lived in her third masters house and how was it different from the others?
9:00 Who is her master now and why?
10:00 and 11:30 What does she do to help others?
