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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Hurumanu/reading activity - Kate Sheppard and the Women's Suffrage

 Over the past few weeks we have been working on an activity, and that activity is identifying and describing Kate Sheppard and the Women's suffrage. I suppose my work was pretty good, here it is. 

Kate Sheppard was born in Liverpool, ENG. 

I think Kate was put on the $10 note because she fought gallantly for women’s rights to vote.

WCTU stands for Women’s Christian Temperance Union. 

Four actions Kate took in her quest to fight for women’s right were: 

  1. She joined the WCTU club.

  2. She tirelessly wrote pamphlets every day she could.

  3. She organized meetings and lectures.

She presented a series of petitions to parliament.


True or False:

Kate Sheppard was born in 1847. TRUE.

Aussie was the first country to let women vote. FALSE.

Nearly 32k people signed the petition for women to vote. TRUE.

Kate Sheppard is on the $20 note. FALSE.


Summarise the article in your own words. 

Kate Sheppard was born in Liverpool, England on 10th March, 1847.

She grew up in Scotland ENG, then moved to New Zealand.

She married Walter Sheppard (1835 - 1915, married 1871 - death) at the age of 24.

She started to fight for women’s rights to vote, by writing pamphlets and getting people to sign the petition.

Even the prime minister at the time was behind her for the petition!

However, when the bill needed the governor’s signature, but there was a problem.

The governor, David Boyle, did not support women’s suffrage and was slow to sign the petition.

However he reluctantly agreed to sign it on September 19th, 1893. And it was final.

Afterwards, Sheppard was a hero in the world.

She received large amounts of support and letters every year.

Then after she hit the age of 65, she became less active and didn’t do much.

She later died of natural causes at the age of 86 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

In 1993, a century after women were allowed to vote, a memorial in memory of her was put in place on the Avon River.

It was officially unveiled in 2005.

If you don't think it's good well then you're probably right. IN YOUR OWN MIND YOU ARE. Opinions buddy, opinions.

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