classify teaching

Help students to make real world connections to the idea of class rivalry! Use The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (thanks to Netflix) to demonstrate a modern example of "Greasers" and "Socs" as Will tries to adapt his West Philadelphia persona in the sophisticated world of Beverly Hills. Students love watching the opening episode and comparing the concepts of stereotyping and biases in both texts. Wonderful as a fun activity or use more deeply and have students write a text-to-text comparison. For th