Social Class

Testing, Tracking, and Toeing the Line: A Role Play on the Origins of the Modern High School

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 13 pages.
A role play on the origins of the modern high school.

Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Immigration, Racism & Racial Identity, Social Class

Constitution Role Play: Whose “More Perfect Union”? and The Constitutional Convention: Who Really Won?

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 23 pages.
A role play on the issues involved with the framing of the Constitution.

Democracy & Citizenship, Individuals in US History, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery, Social Class

The Draft Riot Mystery

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 9 pages.
Students are invited to solve a mystery, using historical clues, about the real story of the Draft Riots.

Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery, Social Class, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Hunger on Trial: An Activity on the Irish Potato Famine and Its Meaning for Today

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 5 pages.
Role play in the form of a trial to determine who was responsible for the death of Irish peasants during the potato famine.

Immigration, Social Class

Daughter of Earth: Reading, Writing, and Social Class

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages.

Education, Social Class, Women's History

The Singing Strike and the Rebel Students: Learning from the Industrial Workers of the World

Reading for Teachers PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages.
Author describes how students applied strategies from the Lawrence strike to their own present day activism.

Education, Labor, Social Class

Salt of the Earth: Grounds Students in Hope

Teaching Activity PDF. By S.J. Childs. 6 pages.
The author describes how she introduces students to the classic 1953 film Salt of the Earth about a miners’ strike in New Mexico.

Labor, Latino, Social Class, Women's History

The Carter–Reagan–Bush Consensus

Teaching Activity PDF. By Ron Perry. 16 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 21 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the recently rising disparities in power, wealth and quality of life in America.

Democracy & Citizenship, Social Class, US Foreign Policy

Vietnam and Beyond: The Historic Resistance

Teaching Activity PDF. By Mike Benbow and Robin Pickering. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 18 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on opposition to the Vietnam War.

Imperialism, Social Class, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

The Black Upsurge Against Racial Segregation

Teaching Activity PDF. By Tasha Boettcher. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 17 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the long civil rights movement in America.

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Social Class