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Home TIMELINE TOPICS ASSIGNMENT: Who Is A Person In America?

1916 Margaret Sanger opens Birth Control Clinic Sarah Mikac The birth control pill is taken once everyday to prevent birth. Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist and founder of Planned Parenthood. Image 1: Mosey, Jerry. //The Pill//. 1 Aug. 1984. //APimages//. N.p., 13 Sept. 1999. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. . Image 2: //Planned Parenthood//. 1 Oct. 1916. //Apimages//. N.p., 13 Feb. 2011. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. .

Write a journal/newspaper style article in which you take a neutral stance (as a reporter) and give the facts about the actual event. What led up to the event? What happened during the actual event? Did it have an “end” or is it unresolved? You are to write about this event __when it happened__, you are assuming the role of a reporter in 1850, 1920, etc., __not someone looking back from 2011__. You need to cite your sources, and they must include information only available during that time period. At least one source must be primary and/or an eyewitness account. **Important - This work will be submitted to TurnItIn.com. We will provide you information about using this helpful resource**!
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Margaret Sanger a birth control activist says she started devoting herself to creating sexual and reproductive freedom for woman when she witnessed a young patient die from an illegal abortion (Bone). On October 16 ,1916 the first ever birth control clinic opened in Brooklyn, New York by Margaret Sanger. Over 400 women received free contraception devices that prevented unwanted pregnancy. After a short ten days the clinic was shut down by the police and Sanger was jailed for creating public irritation. The National American Suffrage Association’s president Carrie Chapman Catt is not supportive of Margaret Sanger’s urge for a pregnancy stopper. Chapman says “the sexual [freedom] of women would lead to their sexual exploitation” (Langston). Ms. Chapman is not alone on this disagreement, many of the churches are saying that this “interference with ‘God’s will’ would result in mental and physical illness” (Langston).  Ignoring others thoughts and disagreements, Sanger continued to fight for her belief. In 1923, with the help of her newly married husband, J. Noah Slee, Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in New York City. Today this clinic is known as Planned Parenthood.  Without Margaret Sanger’s strong fight for a woman’s right to her body, and advocate for a woman’s right to control pregnancy we would not be able to celebrate the releasing of the birth control pill tomorrow, May 9, 1960. The pill is only available to married woman and provided with a prescription.

Jennifer Emerling Bone. "She believed reproductive rights could change history without class war." //Academic Search Premier//. Volume 33 ed. 2010. //EBSCOhost//. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. .

Task 1: Mastery Rubric A quality news article will: •open with an attention-grabbing headline •identify the author's name and the date of the publication (in the past) •develop the 5 W's in three power paragraphs •paragraph 1: contain an interesting lead •paragraph 2: correctly cite a secondary source (an indirect quote) •paragraph 3: correctly cite a primary source (eyewitness account) •maintain appropriate journalistic voice • read like an article written in the same time period as the event occurred •be free of mechanics and Works Cited errors

TASK II What is the Argument? Should birth control be legal?

PROMPT 1: Why did the majority of Americans not recognize the rights of members of this group? The creation of birth control was a significant event to the American society because it brought many's attention to the question we are asking ourselves now "who is a person?". This question was brought up with birth control because many people thought and still do believe that it is wrong, for it is potentially killing a person (baby). Some Americans however, thought that since they are not in the flesh yet, they are not counted as a person, therefore "killing" it is not against the law.

PROMPT 2: How did advocates for the minority group shed light on this injustice?

Supporters of the birth control pill showed their support by not giving up. Margaret Sanger never gave up, no matter how many times she got in trouble she kept trying. Two years after she opened the first birth control clinic she was sent to a workhouse for thirty days, but that did not stop her. "The court... gave doctors the right to give advice about birth control"(Margaret Sanger On Trial), after Margaret Sanger was put on trial for her illegal birth control clinic she managed to convince the court to adjust the law. She managed to stretch the law for her belief and did not give up. In 1912 Sanger "began //The Woman Rebel//, a radical feminist journal that advocated for birth control. She was accused of obscenity under the Comstock Act but left for Britain before she could be tried." (O'Neil). Margaret Sanger returned no less than a year later and the public was protesting so strongly that all charges were dropped (O'Neil). This shows how strong people believed in her and what they were willing to do in order for Sanger's dreams to come true.

"Margaret Sanger On Trial." //American Women's History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com

O'Neil, Angela. "Sanger, Margaret." In Ford, Lynne E., ed. //Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics.// New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. //American Women's History Online,// Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com).

"The Pill" by Loretta Lynn

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You wined me and dined me When I was your girl Promised if I'd be your wife You'd show me the world

But all I've seen of this old world Is a bed and a doctor bill I'm tearin' down your brooder house 'Cause now I've got the pill.

All these years I've stayed at home While you had all your fun And every year thats gone by Another babys come.

There's a gonna be some changes made Right here on nursery hill You've set this chicken your last time 'Cause now I've got the pill.

This old maternity dress I've got Is goin' in the garbage The clothes I'm wearin' from now on Won't take up so much yardage.

Miniskirts, hot pants And a few little fancy frills Yeah, I'm makin' up for all those years Since I've got the pill.

I'm tired of all your crowin' How you and your hens play While holdin' a couple in my arms Another's on the way.

This chicken's done tore up her nest And I'm ready to make a deal And ya can't afford to turn it down 'Cause you know I've got the pill.

This incubator is overused Because you've kept it filled The feelin' good comes easy now Since I've got the pill.

It's gettin' dark it's roostin' time Tonight's too good to be real Oh, but daddy don't you worry none 'Cause mama's got the pill.

Oh, daddy don't you worry none 'Cause mama's got the pill...

** TASK III: ** __Paragraph 1:__ Analyze the impact of the literary or artistic work for the minority group and/or American society as a whole.  Loretta Lynn's song The Pill was banned by more than 60 radios in 1975 (People Magazine). The Pill talks about how Loretta has had too many children and wants no more. She expresses this when she sings, "all these years I've stayed at home while you had all your fun. A nd another year that's gone by, another baby's come.". This also shows that Loretta is tired of being used and left around, the birth control pill would give her some freedom and choice. The Pill by Loretta Lynn is the voice of woman who wanted to decide when they would have a child and have more decision. Don't assume that the singer is telling her own story. Lynn (use last name or both first and last) was certainly making a point about women and the limits they face when they have no control over when they have children. __Paragraph 2:__ CLOSING-- How did the event impact the debate on the argument? <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">Margaret Sanger and the 1916 birth control clinic impacted the debate, who is a person in America?, because it made many realize that even though a person may not be born yet or of a certain age they should still have rights, or it made some believe the opposite. Margaret Sanger was a strong woman who believed strongly in birth control she even said she thought that giving birthing a child is a sin, she stood behind what she believed and never gave up. Even though the child may not be born yet, a fetus should have the sane rights as a 90 year old man, or at least that's what could be argued. There still is debate among this topic, and there always will be. The birth control argument did not answer the question of "who is a person in America?" because it will take more than just one situation and many more debates to answer.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">An outstanding product will. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•showcase a work that expresses a profound idea about your event and the argument surrounding it <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•be the **best** example available, not simply the first one you find <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•demonstrate your ability to interpret the meaning of the literary or artistic piece <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">You start to get to the analysis level in the last sentence of paragraph one, try to make the rest of the paragraph as focused and insightful. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•use the extended power paragraph format as a means to express your understanding of the event, argument, and how art literature and art <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">can reveal emotions and ideas <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">What does the fact that this song was banned say about its impact on women in America? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•reference sources accurately <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Follow MLA format for your citations <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•mechanics are clean and effective Song titles need to be in quotation marks
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">An outstanding time line entry includes the following: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">• <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Opens by identifying you, the author, and your event with a banner headline (see an example of a banner on the top of this page). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">• Under the banner, in the table place two graphics or photos that illustrates an important aspect of the event. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Thoughtful responses to each prompt are supported by credible sources representing diverse perspectives on the event. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Each response should be posted in order (follow template instructions), contain few mechanic errors and follow the power paragraph format. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> • The credibility of each cited source is established and internal citations accurately match the Works Cited.• TASK I and TASK II each introduce and cite two new sources; TA SK III cites one new source.• The Works Cited lists 5 credible sources from the LC databases.
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