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1. SOCIAL STUDIES
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NAME: _________________________GRADE: 5ABC DATE: ________TEACHER: _____________________
Type of text: Expositive Format: Continuous
Source: https://latinamericanpost.com/29497-the-women-of-1819
Topic: Fighting for independence Comprehension goal: Why the territorial distribution of Colombia in the 19th
century did brought social and political conflicts?
Reading level: Literal, inferential and critic
Reading strategies:
Before the reading:
1. Reading objective: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
During the reading:
1. Select information: What can I suppress?
2. Stop and ask: Am I achieving the objective?
After the reading:
1. Analyze the autor’s vestige: Who is the text addressed to?
2. Agreements and disagreements: Do you agree or disagree with the author
Reading skills: Learning evidences:
 Recover explicit information in the
content of the text.
 Selects prompt information about what, who, when, where, why and how
of the text.
 Selects relevant information about the text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
 Selects relevant information about the womrn during the process of Independence and assumes a posture about it.
BEFORE:
Our reading objective will be 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.
DURING:
Now, let´s read a text about the women and their situation in the process of independence. You must apply a macro-rule and
select the relevant information and omit non-essential information. At the end of the reading stop and ask yourself: Do you
have a different view about this topic?

2. 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 o f 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 reac hed
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 a ho mage
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 clases 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 so ldiers who
gave us the freedom, but also those women of all ages and social condition that also made it possible.
AFTER:
Now, let´s see some interpretations about the text. Once the reading is over, answer the following questions, you have to analyze
the autor and say if you agree or disagree with the information exposed in the text.
Who are the characters from the Reading, How they are they described?
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Which places are mentioned in the reading?
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Which historical ages are mentioned in the reading?
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Do you agree or disagree with the author?
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Who is the text addressed to?
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