Unit Title	Author	Year
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
Bob Kaufman: Life According to the Beat	Lisa Kelly	2009
Keywords: Beats, Bob Kaufman, consumerism, discussions, literacy, literary movement, power, race, silencing in America
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
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
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores	2015
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
Seminar: American Political Culture
American Politics through Literary Exposures: Film, Essays, & Speeches	Bonnee Breese	2009
Keywords: american politics, language arts
Seminar: Asian Americans in U.S. Schools
Asian Americans in Education	Kimberly Sweeney	2022
Keywords: Asian Americans, culturally responsive teaching, immigration, model minority
Asian Americans in Media: Representation & Identity	Tia Larese	2022
Keywords: Digital Learning, diversity, elementary, ELL, English language learners, Immigrant, Intercultural Classroom, Misrepresentation, Representation, social justice
The Immigrant Experience through Literature and History	Sarah Vieldhouse	2022
Keywords: ELA, English, immigration, Literature Circles, Middle School, Research
Cultivating our Cultural Identities	Rebecca Horner	2022
Keywords: bilingualism, butterfly, caterpillar, Culture, EL, ESL, ESOL, ethnicity, family, Food, kindergarten, kinesthetic, parental involvement, parents, phonemic awareness, primary, social capital
Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography
Exploring Biography through an Author Study: Jan Brett	Charlena Watson	2016
Keywords: biography, Critical thinking
Seminar: Black Visual Culture
“Teaching Black visual culture through PBL”	Alla Dolderer	2022
Keywords: African American culture, Art, Black culture, Black History month, ekphratic poems, moving pictures, photography, video clips, visual culture
Self-Representation is the Message, the Message is Power	Meredith Seung Mee Buse	2022
Keywords: artists of color, Black artists, Black gaze, ekphrastic writing, empowerment, Frederick Douglass, personal narratives, poetry, portfolios, Portraiture, self-portraits, self-representation, visual vocabulary
Awake the Uniqueness in Me!	Dr. David L. Turner	2022
Keywords: Barrack Obama, Black culture, Black gaze, black hair, Black history, Fredrick Douglass, James Baldwin and Tina Campt, Toni Morrison, white gaze
Sing, Unburied, Sing	Renae Curless	2022
Keywords: American Literature, American South, Ekphrastic poetry, English Language Arts, Film analysis, Found poetry, High school English, Mississippi Delta, Moonlight, Natasha Tretheway, Parchman Prison, Sing, Unburied Sing
“Love Is The Message”*: Black Visual Art As Historically Responsive Literacy	Geoffrey Winikur	2022
Keywords: Black gaze, Critical Race Theory, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Ekphrastic poetry, Historically Responsive Literacy, Visual Art
Seminar: Children's Literature
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Illustrations in Caldecott Award Books to Increase Vocabulary Acquisition	Klair McGlynn	2011
Keywords: Caldecott, illustrations, vocabulary
Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights
African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights	Aisha Al-Muid	2020
Keywords: African American, cinema, civil rights, film, freedom, Hair, Media