12th Grade Women's History Month Cultural Activities

ESL Women's History Month - Research Unit - Emerging to Expanding ELLs

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

Do you want to give your Secondary ESL students an engaging resource to get them

writing, reading, presenting and researching about Women's History Month and International Women's Day_?_ The Google Slides Pear Deck celebrates current and past women who have inspired the world.

The research project has guided, scaffolded resources so students can research, create a Google Slides presentation (using templated slides), and present to their peers!

Your Students Will:

  • Develop vocabulary
  • Analyze text
  • Apply knowledge
  • Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
  • Work on developing writing skills
  • Complete research
  • Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

  • 68 interactive Pear Deck Google Slides that teach and celebrate Women's History/Important moments and current female leaders and artists
  • A brief history of important moments for women (voting, driving, equal pay, etc)
  • Built in scaffolds, language frames, vocabulary support, and visuals
  • Engaging secondary visuals and themes for secondary ELLs/MLs
  • Research project slides to help students with their project
  • Student note catcher for their research "Memorable Woman"
  • PDF Printable "Memorable Women" (16 memorable women for students to choose from)
  • A templated, ready to go, Google Slides presentation for students (16 slides) to use to create presentations about the memorable woman students are researching
  • A G.O.A.T.s of Representation activity with a student note catcher
  • Tons of slides for writing and interacting!
  • Engaging videos and interviews to showcase incredible women!
  • And more!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sebastian P. wrote, “My favorite resource yet from this shop! Loved the graphics and engaging slides. My ELLs loved the research project as well! Thank you so much for making this.”


This unit will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE project. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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ESL Women's History Month - ELL Newcomers - Secondary - Biographies

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

Do you want to give your secondary ESL newcomer students an engaging resource to get them writing, reading, presenting and researching about Women's History Month? This resource has engaging mini biographies for secondary Newcomers that they will love. They will learn about four incredible women and their amazing accomplishments. 

This resource is perfect to print out and have students do independently with their phones (to have stories read aloud) OR you can pull small groups and do this activity with them!

Your Students Will:

  • Develop vocabulary
  • Analyze text
  • Apply knowledge
  • Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
  • Work on developing writing skills
  • Complete research
  • Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

  • 4 mini biographies (Gladys West, Indira Gandhi, Amelia Earhart and Flossie Wong-Staal)
  • 8 writing activities (Entering level and Emerging level for EACH reading passage)
  • Vocabulary supports for each passage
  • QR CODES TO HAVE STORIES READ ALOUD!!!
  • Speaking questions WITH language frames for speaking practice
  • Tons of language supports like sentence frames, starters and TONS of visuals!
  • 20 PDF printable vocabulary cards for extra small group work
  • Genre focus and graphic to teach it: BIOGRAPHIES
  • Women's History Month information 
  • PDF Easy Printing Version
  • Engaging secondary materials and graphics for secondary multilingual/ELL students

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sebastian P. wrote, “This was a great reading and writing lesson for my Entering and Emerging (Level 1 and 2) students and the QR codes were so nice to have. Very well done and fun for the students as well. Thanks!”


This unit will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE project. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

Newcomer Professional Development

$5.99