The document provides a reading assignment on the role of women during Colombia's independence process in 1819. It includes a passage describing how women from different social classes supported independence efforts by providing provisions, horses, clothing, weapons, valuable information, and serving as nurses, guides, and even warriors, with some achieving military ranks. The passage notes that the women's contributions were vital to the success of the liberating campaign. Students are asked questions about characters mentioned, places referenced, and whether they think women's situations today are the same or different with arguments.

1. SOCIAL STUDIES
I TERM
PLEA
NAME: _________________________________GRADE: 5___ DATE: ________TEACHER: _____________________
Type of text: Expositive Format: Continuous
Sources:
 The women of 1819 - https://latinamericanpost.com/29497-the-women-of-1819
Topic: Heroes or villains: the characters from our
Independence
Understanding goal: Recognize that both individuals and social
organizations transform over time, build a legacy and leave prints that
remain in actual societies.
Reading levels: Literal, inferential and critic
Reading strategies:
Pre - Reading:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
While - Reading:
1. Select important information: (Highlight) What information should I select because it is important for the topic or it is the
main idea?
After - Reading:
1. Ask and reflect: What did I understand?
Reading skills Learning Evidence
 Recover explicit information in the content of the
text.
 Selects relevant information about the text.
 Recovers implicit information from the content of the
text.
 Select keywords in a paragraph.
 Assumes a critical position based on the text.  Recreates aspects of the text in different contexts.
Interdisciplinary evidences.
 Selects relevant information about the womenn during the process of Independence and assumes a position about it.
BEFORE:
Reading objective: to recognize the role of the women in the independence process. Before start let's activate previous
knowledge about the subject. Have you listen about a woman that participated in the independence besides “la Pola”? What do you
think women could do in that epoch? What kind of bans did they have?
1. Answer the questions of previous knowledge about the women in the past. Also, try to identify who were the following
characters according to the picture.

2. DURING:
Now, let´s read a text about the women and their situation in the process of independence. Now, let´s select important
information, after, answer the respective questions.
The women of 1819
Facing the repression and fighting against Spaniards, many groups of resistance were supported or directed by women. In the Casanare
plains, Santander´s group received considerable support from many landowners, especially in cattle and horses. Actually, in Socorro
there was a resistance group organized by Mrs. Antonia Santos.
Many of the independence movement leaders had fallen in the battlefields, others were executed, many were prisoners and not few had
chosen to hide in remote places. In Bogota, the capital city, women, wives, girlfriends, sisters, daughters and mothers of those patriots
suffered unimaginably, they wondered if they would see their beloved again, and when would all that torture end. The Spaniards had
seized some of the properties of these ladies, or their family´s property. Patriot women suffered punishment of exile in modest villages.
Bolívar, who was accompanied by General Santander and the patriots, created the strategic plan to cross the Plains, hike the eastern
mountain range, and cross the Pisba moorland. On the way they faced a lot of sufferings due to the cold, rain, and fatigue. Several
patriot women known as “juanas", helpers or nurses, collaborated with the big effort of the patriot army crossing the mountain range;
they contributed with clothes, horses, and even sending their own children to Bolivar´s army.
In the province of Tunja and other places many women dressed with the military uniform, and even used a spear or a rifle in the
battlefield. Some of these women were not only accepted in the patriotic army to participate in the fighting, they also reached degrees,
like the first sergeant grade of the cavalry.
A few days after the triumph in Boyacá, Bolívar traveled toward Venezuela and spent the night in Socorro. There was held an homage
ceremony for Antonia Santos and the other heroines of the town. Among other things he said in his speech: “Heroines of Socorro, in the
past, the mothers of Sparta did not ask for the lives of their children, but for the victory of their homeland (…) Mothers, wives, sisters,
who would be able to follow your tracks in the race of heroism? Will there be any men like you? No, no, and no. But you are worthy of
the admiration from the whole universe and the adoration of the liberators of Colombia".
Bolivar's army received a lot of support during the independence campaign of 1819, but it was the women who gave the higher note,
the ones that did the most for the independence, the ones who performed the miracle, according to the words of Bolívar.
Ladies from different social classes or organizations that cooperated in the freeing process, took great risks and provided support in many
different ways: with provisions, horses, clothes, weapons, giving valuable information, acting as nurses, as guides, as warriors, sacrificing
their goods, tranquility, health, and sometimes their own lives or their children´s lives.
Their contribution was vital for the success of the liberating campaign. Because of that, we must honor not only the brave soldiers who
gave us the freedom, but also those women of all ages and social condition that also made it possible.
1. Who are the characters from the reading, how they are they described?
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2. Which places are mentioned in the reading?
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3. Do you think that the situation of women today remains the same or has it changed? Give arguments your answer.
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AFTER:
Ask and reflect: Based on the text, let´s reflect about the relevance of the women during the Colombian History. Now, let´s check
some of the most representative or talented women in our country have been represented on different currency, we will recognize
them through the following activity, follow the example and fill the information in the other squares:

3. CHARACTER
BILL´S
VALUE
SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY PICTURE
Gabriel
García
Márquez
50000 COP
Colombian novelist and one of the
greatest writers of the 20th
century, who was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982,
mostly for his masterpiece One
Hundred Years of Solitude.