Unit Title	Author	Year
Imagery in Action	Donna L. Jones	2009
Keywords: African American literature, african american poetry, Literature, poetry
Seminar: "But Mostly I Lie A Lot" - The African American Short Story in the 21st Century
Short Story Encounters: Pathos in Action in African-American Fiction	Stacia Parker	2012
Keywords: African American fiction, pathos, short stories
Seminar: 20th Century American Literature
Recurring Themes of African American Folktales	Catherine Thornton Brownlee	2007
Keywords: African American folktales, African American literature, Afro-American, language arts, Reading, symbolism, themes
The Lesson the Piano Teaches: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and the African-American Experience It Illuminates	William S. Lewis	2007
Keywords: African American History, August Wilson, griot, History, Literature, personal history
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Students’ Poetic Perceptions of Contemporary Issues	Kemo Donita Logan	2007
Keywords: African American literature, Compare and contrast, Harlem Renaissance, literacy revolution, poetry, social activism, social themes
Exploring African American Culture Through Literature	Susan King	2007
Keywords: African American culture, African American literature, autistic support, books, comprehension skills, Reading, storytelling
Jim Crow and Apartheid: Walking hand in hand to the Promised Land	Stacia D. Parker	2007
Keywords: African American History, America, Apartheid, Harlem Renaissance, political literature, South Africa, think globally
Seminar: African American Poets in the 21st Century
Looking at the Black Experience in America Through African American Poetry	Joyce Arnosky	2009
Keywords: 5th grade, African American, Black experience in America, History, poems, poetry, Reading, writing
P.O.W.E.R. : Profound. Original. Words. Expressing. Resilience.	Karen L. Brinkley	2009
Keywords: afrian american literature, African American art, african american poetry, History, Literature, poetry
Imagery in Action	Donna L. Jones	2009
Keywords: activism, african american poetry, Civil Disobedience, English 3, Imagery, Imagery in Action, literary devices, Literature, poetry
Bob Kaufman: Life According to the Beat	Lisa Kelly	2009
Keywords: Beats, Bob Kaufman, consumerism, discussions, literacy, literary movement, power, race, silencing in America
Homage to a Mockingbird: Poetry in Motion	Stacia D. Parker	2009
Keywords: 1930s, characters, collaboration, conscience, courage, found poem, haiku, Harper Lee, historical background, Historical Context, odes, poetry, social injustice, social order, social responsibility, sonnet, The Black Arts Movement, The Harlem Renaissance, themes, To Kill a Mockingbird
Brave Voices through Time and Space: Poetry Café for Young People	Samuel A. Reed, III	2009
Keywords: African American poets, Art, biography, constructive criticism, demystify poetry, figurative language, Middle School, Music, read, Reading, Research, social studies, speak, write, writing
Prosody and the African American Poet: A Case for Close Reading	Deborah Samuel	2009
Keywords: active engagement, close readings, Critical thinking, English, English literature, examine, literary techniques, Literature, poetry, read, slow down
LA POESÍA DE LAS AMERICAS	Michael Steele-Eytle	2009
Keywords: Afro-American poets, art and music, interpretation, language acquisition, lens of Spanish Translation, listening, poetic structure, Reading, Spanish, speaking, writing
Southwest Philadelphia: What it was and how we see it today	Deanna M. Stephan	2009
Keywords: 11th grade, African-American community, American Literature, analyze current status of community, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Brooks, historical frameworks, history of the community, Jack Myers, poetry, process observations, Reading
Seminar: Aliens and Others: African Americans [Re]Writing Generic Fiction
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum	2015
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, Easy Rawlins, fantasy, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley
Seminar: American Political Culture
Reconstruction: The Promises and Failures of Post-Civil War America	Hye-Won Gehring and Shanee Garner	2009
Keywords: 10th grade, 11th grade, African American History, American History, economic tropes, English, High School, historical contexts, literacy skills, political, Reconstruction, social, student-centered
Seminar: Art and the Life of the City
Dance, Readings, Acting, Music, and Art (D.R.A.M.A.): A Study of African American Performing and Visual Arts in the 1940s – 1950s	Leslie Carlis	2007
Keywords: acting, African American, Art, dance, Music, performing arts, Reading, visual arts
Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era	Carole Chernecky	2007
Keywords: African American, American Literature, Art, artist, Drama, Elgnish, Identity, Paul Robeson, social justice, social studies