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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: 20th Century American Literature


The Story of Us: An Urban Fifth Grade Class Creates a Living History Document Through Memoir and Photography

Joyce Arnosky 2007
Keywords: analyze, data collection, History, literacy, Math, memoir, photography, social studies, Visual Art, writing

Seminar: American Literature and American Painting, 1840 to 1940


When Looking at Me, What Do You See? Interacting with Murals

Kelly L. Graham 2010
Keywords: Art, asian art and culture, murals, Science, Visual Art

Seminar: American Political Culture


Fashion Trends: A Reflection of Our Political Culture

Ardeth Gilmore 2009
Keywords: 20th century, American Colonial period, American History, change, European history, fashion, fashion and politics, fashion fads, fashion trends, Industrial Revolution, major political events, political attitudes, political culture, postindustrial

Seminar: Art and the Life of the City


Strange Fruit – Metaphors, Music and Place – Jazz and Hip Hop as Reflective of the Times

Samuel A. Reed, III 2007
Keywords: Art, Culture, hip-hop, Jazz, lyrics, Music, popular culture, Reading, social studies, society, videos, writing

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

The Harlem Renaissance

Richard P. Holmes 2007
Keywords: African American, African American art, African American History, dance, History, Literature, Music, The Harlem Renaissance

Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico

Audrey J. Jackson 2007
Keywords: African American art, Art, artists, Mexico, printmaking, social awareness

Celebrated Impressions from the Painters of Paris

Debra Migden 2007
Keywords: Art, artists, Impressionist, Paris, society

The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity

Pamela Toller 2007
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate

Shedding False Images Through Art and Poetry

John J. Grob 2007
Keywords: bravadi, code switching, Identity, masks, stereotypes

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


Still Segregated in 2020: A Study of Equity in Philadelphia Area Schools through Film Study and Creation

Katherine Steiner 2020
Keywords: cinema, civics, Civil Rights Movement, communications, freedom, Government, History, Media, Philadelphia, Politics

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


Sew Me a Story: African and African American “Quilt Lore”

Kelly Graham 2008
Keywords: African American History, American History, elementary school, human experience, quilt, Quilt Lore, quilting, stories and designs, storytelling

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry


Form and Content in Modern Poetry and Drama

Jessica Waber 2013
Keywords: content, Drama, form, modern poetry, poetry

Seminar: Physics in the Arts


Cartoon Animation and Films in Literature: Intrinsic to Physics

Bonnee L. Breese 2007
Keywords: cartoon animation, English Language Arts, film, film editing, literacy terms, Making connections, Math, physics, physics vocabulary, Science

Learning Physics and Math: An Aesthetic Approach

Moses B. Jackson 2007
Keywords: 10th grade, 9th grade, Art, arts, create, dance, discover, explore, high school math, Math, Music, physics, think

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Form, Function and Symbolism: Art of The Pueblo Peoples

Kimberley Colasante 2021
Keywords: Acoma, Ancestral Pueblo, Cochiti, Jason Garcia, Maria Martinez, Pueblo Pottery, Pueblo revolt, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa Domingo Pueblo, Taos, Tewa, Zuni

Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language

Greg Probst 2021
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern

Weaving for Healing and Connection

Karen Rufino 2021
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing

Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay

Katherine Steiner 2021
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Seek and Save the Yeti Campaign

Maxine Tumaian 2008
Keywords: art critique, career, conservation quests, cross-curricular, cryptozoology, film interpretation, Middle School, scientific process, vocabulary builders, Yeti