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#5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading
Warm-Up
Check Your Understanding
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Name ______________________________________________
1.
Which of the following did Sarah Hale
not support?
a. women teachers in schools
c. physical punishment for children
in schools
b. a national day of thanksgiving
d. the education of women doctors
2.
Which of the following did Hale
not write?
a. a novel
c. dictionaries
b. children’s poetry
d. magazine articles
3.
Which of the following was probably
not a reason Sarah Hale wanted a national day of
thanksgiving?
a. to bring families together in celebration
c. to have a day where everyone
gives thanks
b. to express gratitude for the nation’s good fortune d. to start the holiday shopping season
4.
Why was
Godey’s Lady’s Book important to Hale?
a. It allowed her to publish and explain her opinions.
b. She was able to advocate causes for women and children.
c. She could campaign for a national day of thanksgiving.
d. all of the above
In the middle of the 1800s, Sarah J. Hale
was the most important woman in America.
She became the first woman editor in the
nation. The magazine she edited was called
Godey’s Lady’s Book
. It had many articles on
the latest fashions and the newest hairstyles.
However, she also made it a magazine of
ideas she believed were important for women.
It became the most popular U.S. women’s
magazine for almost fifty years.
She used the pages of her magazine to urge
six presidents to start an annual day of
thanksgiving. She finally succeeded in 1863.
That year, President Lincoln declared a day of
prayer and thanksgiving. She made sure later
presidents kept up the new holiday.
Hale was a firm defender of the rights of
women and children. She wanted women
to become teachers at a time when only
one teacher in fifty was a woman. She
was successful. When she retired from the
magazine, most teachers were women. She
also wanted teaching colleges that young
women could attend. She opposed spanking
for children in school. And she wanted
women to serve on school boards. This was
before women even had the right to vote.
Hale was a leader in building the first college
for women. She also wrote to support the idea
of building nurses’ training colleges for young
women. She believed that medical colleges
should be opened for women doctors. She
believed that women and children had special
medical needs that women doctors would
focus on. Before she became famous, Hale
wrote books of children’s poetry. Her most
famous poem was “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
Hale also wrote the first novel by a woman in
the United States.
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