Ben spent a while in the restroom at the onset of class. He stated that he is feeling better than yesterday, but is still experiencing stomach issues. He apologized for yesterday and attributed it to feeling very sick, so we discussed a different kinder manner he could have expressed himself to better manage and clarify the reasons for his resistant behaviors. I brought up the subject of homework and Ben told me he did it but keeps forgetting to bring it in. For our lesson today, we reactivated prior knowledge about the motivations that spurred Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to organize a women's right convention in the mid 19th century. We read how activists drafted a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions and noted its similarity to the Declaration of Independence in wording in order to lay out the injustices of gender relations. For example, it stated that "all men AND WOMEN are created equal." Ben and I noted that it took another 70 years for women to get the right to vote!