DAY 3: WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Activity 1: THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Kate Sheppard was a very famous and important New Zealander. In the late 1800s, she fought for women to have the right to vote in elections. She did this by creating petitions (lists with the names of people who supported her), running public meetings, writing letters to the newspaper, and talking to politicians.
As a result of her hard work, women in New Zealand (NZ) were first granted the right to vote in 1893. This made NZ the first country in the world o give women the right to vote. We call this right 'women's suffrage'.
In honour of Kate Sheppard's work, the NZ government has put her image on the current $10 note.
For this activity, we had to imagine that the government decides to create a new $10 banknote and replace Kate with a picture of a different New Zealand woman. With that, we had to explain who we think the government should put on the new $10 note. We had to include a picture and a short explanation on why we have selected her as Kate Sheppard's replacement.
I have chosen Jean Batten to be on the $10. I chose her because she became the first woman to fly by herself across the South Atlantic South. She is globally known to break many long-distance flight records. I feel like it is very hard to achieve what she had achieved. So that is why I have chosen Jean Batten.
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| Jean Batten being Interviewed after her flight from England To Australia in 1934 by H.B. Green & co Flickr is licensed under cc-by-sa 2.0 |
Hi again Lyan!
ReplyDeleteAwesome choice! There are so many amazing people it can be so hard to choose! It was wonderful learning about Jean from the first week, is that where you learned about her too?
I like how you say that it is very hard to achieve what she achieved, I am sure that she is definitely a very unique person for her accomplishments!
Keep up the good work!
Gabe