Socioeconomic Status

Week One

Introduction to topic

Understanding different perspectives – What does analyzing different perspectives allow us to do?

What do we already know about socioeconomic status? (KWL)

Week Two

Poverty Students will examine statistics about poverty and reflect on them

Students will brainstorm and research stereotypes regarding poverty

Students will examine and analyze photographs

Students will study perspective change and use perspective change to understand poverty

Poverty in America vs. world

Week Three

Introduce literature circles Students will connect topics and issues in their

novels to current issues and events

Students will analyze socioeconomic inequality

in their novels

Students will think critically about their novels

and the issue of socioeconomic inequality

Week Four

Students will understand how socioeconomic status affects our society

Students will analyze the correlation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement

Students will find articles that relate to

this topic

Week Five

Employment and income

Students will examine the consequences of socioeconomic status and family life

Students will analyze how health is affected by socioeconomic status

Week Six

What can we do?

Students will study current events in order to research topics regarding socioeconomic and education, family life, health, employment

Final project work and presentations

-How it affects our lives

-How it affects the world

-What can we do to make changes?