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, Media, African American, civil rights, cinema
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
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
Music and Social Activism – Introducing American Music and History to Elementary Students Through Protest Songs	Dale Apple
Keywords: History, Music, social activism, songs
Film Literature of Middle Eastern Women: Explorations from Egypt, Iran, and Turkey	Bonnee Breese
Keywords: Egypt, Iran, Middle East, Technology, Turkey, United States, women, world history
2009
Prosody and the African American Poet: A Case for Close Reading	Deborah Samuel
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
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
American Politics through Literary Exposures: Film, Essays, & Speeches	Bonnee Breese
Keywords: american politics, language arts
Is Seeing Believing?	Rita Sorrentino
Keywords: camera, digital age, photography
Achievement and Delight: When Mathematics and Literature Cross Paths	Barbara McDowell Dowdall
Keywords: advanced placement english, ELA, Math
Looking at the Black Experience in America Through African American Poetry	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: 5th grade, African American, Black experience in America, History, poems, poetry, Reading, writing