Curriculum Levels 5-6 Research Task

Name:…………………………………….. Class: ………… Date: …………….

EXCELLENCE: The student:  States topic and key questions  Selects three resources  Presents detailed summary paragraphs under key questions with good visual support.  Draws convincing conclusions for each question.

Curriculum Levels 5-6 Research Task: Famous New Zealanders

EXEMPLAR REPORT My Topic: Kate Sheppard (Introduction) I chose to investigate Kate Sheppard because I wanted to find out why she is pictured For my research/ on the New Zealand ten dollar note as this indicates she did something important for I chose to New Zealand. My three questions were: Who was Kate Sheppard?; Why is she a investigate … famous New Zealander?; and What influence has she had on New Zealand society because I wanted today? One interesting fact I found out was that from 1888 - 1893 she organised a total to find out … of five petitions to parliament asking for women to be My three questions were … allowed the vote. This was interesting because it showed One interesting that she would not take no for an answer, and also that fact I found out many people supported her. was that …/ This was interesting Kate Sheppard is pictured on the New Zealand $10 note. because…

Who was Kate Sheppard? I found out that Catherine (she preferred Katherine or Kate) Wilson Sheppard (1848 - (Subheading = 1934) was born in Liverpool, England but grew up in Scotland. She came to New Question 1) Zealand when she was 21 years old to live in Christchurch. Two years later she married Firstly/ In Walter Sheppard, a grocer, general merchant and city councillor. According to the answer to my first question/ I Encyclopaedia of New Zealand she did a lot of social work through her church and she found out that … also worked for many years for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She was According to married twice and she is buried in Addington Cemetery, Christchurch. (name a source) … In 1887 she started campaigning for women to have the vote and for her fifth petition We learn from she gathered the signatures of almost 32,000 women, nearly a third of the female this information that… population of New Zealand at that time. We learn from this information that although Therefore it is many women felt that it was unfair that only men could vote, there was also a lot of clear that… opposition from the all male government to any change. (Subheading = Why is she a famous New Zealander? Question 2) Secondly, a major reason Sheppard campaigned for the vote was because she felt if Secondly/ In women had a voice in parliament they could get temperance achieved. Temperance answer to my means banning alcohol. According to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography second question/ I found out that women did not have the vote so "in being excluded, had been classed with juveniles, … lunatics and criminals." This sense of inequality was highlighted by Sheppard in many According to of her public speeches and she said that 'All that separates, whether of race, class, (name a source) creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome'. The Electoral Act 1893 was passed … on 19 September and Kate Sheppard received a telegram from the premier, Richard This information tells us that… Seddon saying that women had won the battle. Women sent white camellias to the MPs I conclude that… who had supported the bill, and red camellias to those who had opposed it. The Governor, Lord Glasgow honoured Sheppard as a political leader, "by symbolically presenting to her the pen with which the bill granting womanhood suffrage had been signed."

Sixty-five per cent of all New Zealand women over 21 voted in the first equal election and New Zealand became the first country in which all women exercised the right to vote. Sheppard then travelled to England to support women there who were fighting the same battle. On her return to New Zealand she was made president of the National Council of Women and she worked hard for many years in the community on behalf of women's rights and for families. She was publicly honoured in New Zealand and overseas on many occasions. I conclude that Kate Sheppard is famous because she was a leader of a movement that achieved a world first - giving women the vote. Kate Sheppard, photographed in 1905

What influence has she had on New Zealand Society today? In an article on the web site NZedge Sheppard is referred to as a "suffragist" (a (Subheading = fighter for political equality) and as "the leader and main figurehead of the suffragist Question 3) movement in New Zealand … a source of inspiration to suffragists and campaigners A third aspect I for equality between the sexes, both in New Zealand and throughout the world." The investigated poet Jessie Mackay, who knew Kate well, described her as, "the woman whose life was…/ In answer and personality made the deepest mark upon New Zealand history." These comments to my third question I found show that women today owe a lot to her because we take the right for vote for out that … granted. There is a memorial to her in Christchurch where women celebrate her According to achievement every 19th September. This helps me (name a source) understand her determination and how she was an … inspiration for other women a hundred years ago This shows that… / This and today. It is because of her that women feel free helps me to stand for parliament and can become Prime understand Minister, just like men. why… Women mark 19 September at the Kate Sheppard Memorial: Photo source Women on Air (Conclusion) In conclusion Kate Sheppard was a remarkable woman with a very modern attitude, Finally/ In who spent many years working for equality for women and for families in New conclusion/ To Zealand. In 1934 the 'Christchurch Times' reported at her death: 'A great woman has sum up my research… I gone, whose name will remain an inspiration to the daughters of New Zealand while learnt that… our history endures.' I found a number of sources of information but the most useful The most useful were the Dictionary of Biography entry; the NZedge web site (heroes section) which information included some photographs; and two articles from a nzine web page on women's source I found suffrage. These three sources gave the most detailed historical information. 794 words was …because…

Bibliography Dorothy - 17/9/99. 'Celebrating Women's Suffrage 106 Years On' Retrieved 8 December 2007 from: http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/suffrage2.html (Bibliography) Kate Sheppard SUFFRAGIST. Retrieved 6 December 2007 from: Use APA format. http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/sheppard.html See: http://library.cante Malcolm, Tessa K. 'Sheppard, Katherine Wilson 1847 - 1934'. Dictionary of New Zealand rbury.ac.nz/service s/ref/apa/ Biography, updated 22 June 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2007 from: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/

'SHEPPARD, Katherine Wilson', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 18-Sep-2007. Retrieved 6 December 2007 from: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/1966/S/SheppardKatherineWilson/en ********************************************************************************************************************************* *********************************************************************************************************************************