Starter quiz
- Emily Davison was born when ______ was Queen of the United Kingdom.
- Victoria ✓
- Elizabeth
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- Children often got diseases in Victorian times.
- True ✓
- False
- Emily Davison was lucky enough to go....
- on holiday.
- to school. ✓
- on a plane.
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- What is literature?
- a certificate from a university
- a common disease in Victorian England
- written work such as stories, poems and plays ✓
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- A certificate to show someone has completed studying a subject at university is a...
- disease
- degree ✓
- diphtheria
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- Emily Davison was not allowed a degree because she was a...
- 'woman' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the keyword to the definition.
- suffragettes⇔a group of people who wanted women to have the right to vote ✓
- vote⇔to make a choice about who runs the country ✓
- Why was Emily Davison not allowed her degree certificates?
- She was kicked out of university.
- She was a woman. ✓
- She didn’t pass her exams.
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- Women and men were treated in the same way in Britain at the start of the 1900s.
- True
- False ✓
- In 1908, only ______ could vote in Britain.
- 'men' ✓
- When did Emily Davison join the Suffragettes?
- 1806
- 1906 ✓
- 2006
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- Women wanted to vote for people who would make changes...
- to make their lives worse.
- to make their lives better. ✓
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Key learning points
- Not getting her degree because she was a woman made Emily Davison very angry.
- Something else that women were not allowed to do was to vote.
- This made Emily very angry as well.
- Emily joined a group of women who were fighting for women to be allowed to vote.
- This group was called the Suffragettes.
Common misconception
Some may think that Emily Davison quit her job to join the Suffragettes.
Emily joined the Suffragettes in 1906 and did not quit her job to fight for women's suffrage full time until 1908.
Keywords
Vote - when someone can vote, they are allowed to make a choice about who runs the country
Suffragettes - the Suffragettes were a group of people who wanted women to have the right to vote in Britain
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