Teaching Resources

Sample Assignments
Sample History Assignment: "Oral History"
Sample American Literature Assignment: "Analyzing Visual and Oral Histories of Southerners"
Sample Composition Assignment: "Narrative of Work and Class"
Sample Composition Assignment: "Critical Review of Waiting for Superman"
Sample Composition Assignment: "Argument about the American Dream"
Sample Composition Assignment: "Argument about Work and Class in the Media an Popular Culture"
Sample Composition Assignment: "Profile of a Worker"
Sample Composition Assignment: "This I Believe Project"
Other Resources
“Class Matters: Working Definitions”
“Working-Class Perspectives: Who Is Working Class?”
“Classless Society: Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College”
“I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave”
“Rethinking the American Dream”
“Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?”
“Deepening the American Dream”
“Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University”
“Center for the Study of Working Class Life at Stony Brook University”
“The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison”
“Kindred Voices: The Workers Writers Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst”
“The Federal Writers’ Project at the Library of Congress”