Featured: Mia Mottley — Building Bridges From Survival to Structure
Grades 6–8 · SEL + Literacy · PDF · No Prep · $4.75
Nine women who built movements, changed laws, and placed truth on record. SEL-integrated lessons for grades 6–8. Print and digital. Ready to teach.
The only Women’s History Month lesson plan on TPT featuring Mia Mottley. Students study how the first female Prime Minister of Barbados uses truth-telling and coalition-building to fight for climate justice on the world stage. The lesson connects Mottley to Shirley Chisholm, another Barbadian leader whose grandmother taught her she was somebody.
Includes teacher guide, student biography, vocabulary section, 10 comprehension questions, 10 SEL reflection prompts, graphic organizer, multiple-choice quiz with answer key, and a systems-thinking extension activity.
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The Leaders Textbooks Leave Out
Women’s History Month in most classrooms covers the same five names every year. Students learn that these women were brave. They do not learn how they thought, how they organized, how they built.
This curriculum gives teachers nine lessons that go deeper. Each lesson pairs a focused biography with SEL reflection, vocabulary work, comprehension questions grounded in text evidence, and a graphic organizer. Students do not just read about courage. They analyze strategy. They trace how a woman’s early life shaped her later decisions. They connect historical leadership to their own communities.
“Fairness and togetherness is what is needed to bring about peace, love, and prosperity in this world. And no, this is not romanticism. These are hard realities that simply require decisions.” — Mia Mottley
Women’s History Month Bundle: 8 SEL Lessons
Grades 6–8 · Print & Digital · 8 Complete Lesson Packets
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The eight lessons in the bundle:
1. Ella Baker — Organizing from the Ground Up
2. Harriet Tubman — Courage Under Impossible Conditions
3. Sojourner Truth — Speaking Truth to Power
4. Ida B. Wells — Journalism as Justice
5. Fannie Lou Hamer — Refusing to Be Silenced
6. Septima Clark — Education as Liberation
7. Shirley Chisholm — Fearless Truth-Telling
8. Miriam Makeba — Art as Resistance
Get the Bundle on TPT — $35.99: Women’s History Month Bundle | 8 SEL Lessons | Grades 6-8 | Print & Digital |
Inside Every Lesson
Each lesson is a complete, self-contained packet. No outside materials needed. No prep beyond printing or assigning digitally.
Teacher Guide: Pacing, warm-up, and differentiation strategies
Student Biography: Focused narrative at 6th-grade reading level
Vocabulary Section: Key terms with definitions and in-context practice
Comprehension Questions: Text-evidence questions for close reading
Multiple-Choice Quiz: With full answer key
SEL Reflection Prompts: Ten themed prompts connecting biography to self
Graphic Organizer: Facts, turning points, cause and effect
Bonus Challenge: Extension for early finishers or homework
Standards Alignment
Common Core ELA
RI.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis
RI.6.2: Determine central idea and how it is conveyed
RI.7.3: Analyze interactions between individuals and events
W.6.10: Write routinely for reflection
CASEL SEL Competencies
Social Awareness: Understanding others’ circumstances and needs
Responsible Decision-Making: Weighing consequences and ethical implications
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