Curated OER
Character and Class
Students connect photographic images with the literary texts of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner. They identify and distinguish narrators and protagonists of literary works. Students recognize patterns of social class as a literary...
Curated OER
Class and Health: You Are What You Eat
Students determine a working definition of class in order to determine how social class can affect personal health. They research their own nutritional needs and work to encourage healthy change in their communities.
Curated OER
Applying Theories Of Class
Students apply their knowledge of theories of social class to an analysis of social class in their society. In this social class lesson plan, students work in small groups to complete a Knowledge-Matrix for Traditional Marxist,...
Curated OER
PEOPLE OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT
Students evaluate how technology changed life in Mesopotamia. Students summarize the link between agriculture and religion in Sumer. Students classify the Sumerians according to social classes. Students classify the causes and effects...
Curated OER
Marketing Class
Students study social class, status, and role in America while examining how sociologists determine the criteria for these concepts. They apply these concepts to their own surroundings. They look at images of people and discuss what...
Curated OER
Walking Around in Another's Shoes
Students investigate what it is like to be part of another social group. Students examine how stereotypes are used to represent groups of people.
Curated OER
Harry Potter: Early Grades Activity
Students analyze labels and explore the social hierarchy found in Harry Potter. They expore inclusion and exclusion in social groups.
OpenStax
Open Stax: A New Social Order: Class Divisions
By reading this section of a chapter on "Industrial Transformation in the North," students will learn about the shared perceptions and ideals of each social class and be able to assess different social classes' views of slavery.
British Library
British Library: Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Social Judgement
By studying these resources, young scholars will be able to more ably appreciate the complexity of Jane Austen's craft in representing the different classes of early 19th-century society. [PDF]
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rights "Then and Now"
Sixth graders will compare and contrast the rights of individuals and groups based on social class today and during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Social Darwinism 1857
Herbert Spencer's article "Progress: It's Law and Cause" in which he discusses his theories of evolution prior to Darwin's publishing.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Introduction to 19th Century Socialism
This article discusses the origin of 19th-century socialism. Discusses the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, social classes, Karl Marx and labor unions. An in-depth article.
Other
A Virtual Tour of Victorian England
A visit to a Victorian Family where they "Will show you how a middle-class Victorian family lives."
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: The Classes of the Maya Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple choice quiz over the Mayan social classes, and then check your answers for review after answering the questions.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Novel
These articles answer the following questions about novels between 1832-1880: From Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell to George Eliot, how did the writers of this period use fantasy, realism, sensationalism, and...
Other
University of Rochester: "Song of the Husbandman"
A translated song from the University of Rochester concerning complaints by peasants about their lives and miseries caused by a King that does not care.
Other
Iranologie: Medes, the First Iranian Kingdom
Read about the early history of the Persian empire. The Medes' consolidation power, the economy, and religion of the people are all discussed.