Unit Title	Author
2024
Systems	James O'Karma
Keywords: adam smith, capitalism, communism, economic systems, feudalism, History, karl marx, Literature, Marxism, monopoly
2022
Exceptional Women: We See You!	Karen Brinkley
Keywords: Achievement Gap, Black joy, culturally, culturally relevant, diversity, Literature, socially transformative curation
2020
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, fiction, Literature, Reading, science fiction, social studies, the Hunger Games, writing
Of Farms and Factories: Assessing the American Labor Movement through Of Mice and Men	Keeler Park
Keywords: collaborative discussion, ESOL, Literature, Of Mice and Men
2019
Poets Imagining the City	Sally O’Brien
Keywords: imagination, Literature, O'hara, poetry, Whitman, writing prompts
2017
Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology	Matthew Menschner
Keywords: African American History, American History, Bebop, Grades 9-12, Jazz, Jazz History, Jazz Studies, Literature, Music History, Music Studies, Musicology, Swing Music, The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, World War II
Be the Hero of Your Journey	Terry Anne Wildman
Keywords: Creative Writing, History, Literature
2016
Are They REALLY That Different?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: Compare, elementary, English, Fifth-Grade, Literature, poetry, social studies
2015
(re)viewing bodies: The Walking Dead and Social Constructions in a Post-Apocalyptic Society	Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: “The Comet”, African American History, language arts, Literature, Reading, Social Construction, The Walking Dead, W.E.B. Du Bois, writing
An Alien in the Cotton Fields: 47 by Walter Mosley	Joan Taylor
Keywords: cotton fields, Literature, Slavery, social realism, Walter Mosley
2014
Using Lessons Learned Through a Study of the Holocaust to Teach Children to Become Upstanders	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander
Bearing Witness: Understanding Holocaust Testimony Within Urban High School Students’ Lives	Lynn Gourinski Fahr
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander
Consider, is this a Man? Retaining Humanity in the Face of Dehumanizing Narratives	Benjamin Hover
Keywords: bearing witness, Common Core Standards, Concentration Camps, Death Fugue, Holocaust Literature, Holocaust Music, Literature, Middle Years Literacy, Resistance to Nazis, survivor testimony
One Story, Innumerable Losses: Themes in Genocide	Brynn Allison McGinn
Keywords: close reading, genocide, History, Holocaust, Literature, Rwanda, witness testimonies, writing
Bearing Witness through Narration	Karen J. Burrell
Keywords: Holocaust, literacy, Literature, narration, stories, writing
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
2013
Want to be a Better Reader? Then Read!	Jessica Ramos
Keywords: Book logs, English, graphing, Increased reading ability, Literature, Middle, Probability / Statistics
Integrating Poetry into the Common Core Standards	Nicole Flores
Keywords: figurative language, literary skills, Literature, poetry
2012
“I Even Encountered Myself”: Exploring Identity Development in Literature During the Middle School Years	Erin Bloom
Keywords: Identity, Literature, short stories
2011
Connections to Literature	Nicole Flores
Keywords: African American literature, comprehension, Literature