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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

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

Seminar: A Survey of Contemplative Practices Across the World's Religions


Be the Hero of Your Journey

Terry Anne Wildman 2017
Keywords: Creative Writing, History, Literature

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

Seminar: American Capitalism


Why Are There Abandoned Factories in My Neighborhood?

Tim Woods 2007
Keywords: History, Industrial history, Philadelphia, William Penn

Seminar: American Literature and American Painting, 1840 to 1940


Propaganda, Its History and Techniques, and Its Use by Proslavery and Abolitionist Movements

Lisa Kelly 2010
Keywords: abolitionists, History, proslavery, Slavery

Settling of the West: Expansion, Emigration, and Extermination

Nancy B. Matlack 2010
Keywords: American History, emmigration, History, indian massacre, Native American History

Seminar: American Political Culture


Philadelphia 1793: Yellow Fever, Race, Medicine and Politics

Mona Kolsky 2009
Keywords: History, Medicine, Philadelphia, race, yellow fever

Seminar: American Racial Politics


American Racial Politics and A Little Town Called Arthington

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2012
Keywords: Africa, Arthington, History, racial politics

Seminar: Art and the Life of the City


The Harlem Renaissance

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

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

Seminar: Asian Americans in U.S. Schools


Moments of Racialization

Megan McNamara 2022
Keywords: “Asian American 1969”, “Asian American UCLA”, “Asian American”, “Muslim American”, “Theory of Knowledge Unit Plan”, “TOK Unit Plan”, History, Jesse Jackson “African American”, LGBT movement, race, Racialization, Stonewall

Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography


“Men of Bronze”: Reflecting on Legacy of the Hellfighters of Harlem

Tara Ann Carter 2016
Keywords: African Americans, comic books, English, graphic novels, Harlem Hellfighters, History, Max Brooks, Military History, New York, primary source documents, Secondary Source Documents, Sociology, soldiers, The Great Migration, World War I, Writing Workshop

The Philadelphia Wax Museum: Exploring the History of a City Through Different Points of View

Tia D. Larese 2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, History, Philadelphia, revolutionary war, social studies, wax museum

Seminar: Children's Literature


Oh Mother, Pleeeeze Let Me Read That Book! The United States Constitution and Banned Books

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2011
Keywords: banned, books, constitution, History, social history

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


Teaching African American Culture Through Cinema

Chanelle Harley 2020
Keywords: African American culture, American History, cinema, community, film, History

The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Pearl Jonas 2020
Keywords: American History, Civil Rights Movement, film, History

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: Cities through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender


Mapping it Out!

Nicole Flores 2021
Keywords: 3-D Map, History, maps, Maps Skills, Neighborhoods, Reading, research skills, social studies