Unit Title	Author
2020
African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights	Aisha Al-Muid
Keywords: film, freedom, Hair, civil rights, Media, African American, cinema
Dark Matters	Valerie Adams
Keywords: black hole, CER framework, dark fantastic, ebony elizabeth thomas, imagination, milky way galaxy
Speculative Fiction: Using an Ethnic and Cultural Lens for Story Telling	Peggy Marie Savage
Keywords: speculative fiction, storytelling, the dark fantastic
Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic	Ryann M. Rouse
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction
Speculative Poetry: Making Sense of the Present and Shaping the Future	Sarah Vieldhouse
Keywords: analysis, imagination, poetry, speculative poetry
Our New Mythologies Speculative Fiction Unit	Katherine Cohen Volin
Keywords: English Language Arts, mythology, speculative fiction
“Take Root Among the Stars” A Speculative Curriculum Unit for Fifth Grade	Vanetta Wood
Keywords: creative arts
Liberated Through Literacy: The African American Pursuit of Equity in Education	Charlette Walker
Keywords: anti-literacy laws, Black educators, Black history, courage, education, ELA, literacy, neo-slavery, Reading, resilience, Slavery, systemic racism
2019
The Art of the Ad: A Critical Investigation of Persuasive Tactics	Alima McKnight
Keywords: advertising, confidence, Critical thinking, English language learners, ESOL, opinion writing, persuasive writing, Self-Regulated Learning (SRL), special education, SpEd, theme
Critical Thinking in Elementary School English Language Arts	Karen Detlefsen, Terry-Anne Wildman, Eliezer Gottlieb, Geralyn McGinty, Kimberly Gallagher, Kireema Sprowal, Lisa Yau, Melissa Green, Peggy Savage, Stephen Esser, Allauren Forbes
Keywords: Critical thinking, ELA, elementary, English
2016
Exploring Biography through an Author Study: Jan Brett	Charlena Watson
2015
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: American empire, American History, Memorial Day, vietnam war
Bomba and Chicken: Afro-Latinas in the United States	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: Afro latinas, Afro-latin culture, Bomba, Bomba dance, chicken
Causes of the Haitian Revolution revealed in primary sources and its challenges on a fragile structure of an imperialist nation	Kathleen Radebaugh
Keywords: Creole, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialist, Politics
2014
Getting Stuck in the Telling: The Dichotomous Nature of Urgent Tales Analyzing and Crafting Accounts that Bear Witness	Julie Mikolajewski
Keywords: consumption approach, History, Holocaust, literacy, Literature, storytelling
Heart to Heart: Adolescents Connect to Holocaust Survivors	Joan Taylor
Keywords: History, Holocaust, survivors, video transcripts
2013
Close Reading of Modern Poetry: A Study in Form and Content	Julie Mikolajewski
Keywords: close reading, content, form, modern poetry, poetry
Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in High School Biology Curricula	Stuart Surrey
Keywords: biological sciences, Biology, Reading, reading skills, reading strategies
2011
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Illustrations in Caldecott Award Books to Increase Vocabulary Acquisition	Klair McGlynn
Keywords: Caldecott, illustrations, vocabulary