![]() ![]() This lesson looks at the revolutionary period as a time of questions and uncertainties for women as well as men. The first and second excerpts focus upon Adams’s views of the human nature and how it is corrupted by unrestrained power, while the third and fourth discuss what might be done to protect women from that power. ![]() The selections include and contextualize the letter in which she makes her famous appeal to her husband to “Remember the Ladies.” We have excerpted key passages from the letters and posed close reading questions for students to answer. ![]() In this lesson students will investigate concerns about the dangers of unrestrained power during the revolutionary period through four letters, written in 17, by Abigail Adams to her husband John and her close friend Mercy Otis Warren. 3.1(IIC) (American Independence was energized by… popular movements…).ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6 (Determine author’s point of view.).ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1 (Cite evidence to analyze specifically and by inference.). ![]()
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