CERCA SLIDES
Social Hierarchies
How can people challenge or break social hierarchies?
Challenge your students to explore a variety of societies in time and space to answer the question, "How do social hierarchies illustrate inequality?"
CERCA Slides by Grade

Grade 3: What Are Social Hierarchies?
How can people challenge or break social hierarchies?
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.W.3.2

Grade 4: Social Hierarchies in Ashanti, Ghana
How do social hierarchies impact the way that some decisions are made in Ghana?
CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.W.4.2

Grade 5: Social Hierarchies in pre-Revolutionary America
In what ways did life in Colonial America create social hierarchies?
CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.W.5.2

Grade 6: The Varna System of Ancient India
What factors shaped the development of the Varna system in ancient India?
CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.W.6.2

Grade 7: Feudal Japan
To what extent was feudal Japan’s four-class social hierarchy fair?
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.W.7.2

Grade 8: Social Hierarchies in Colonial America
In what ways did life in Colonial America challenge or reinforce social hierarchies?
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.W.8.2

Grade 9: The Gilded Age
To what extent was the Gilded Age an era of progress in the United States?
CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

Grade 10: The Three Estates of Pre-Revolution France
How did the structures of the Ancien Regime limit opportunities for upward mobility?
CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.2
