Unit Title	Author
2023
Soundtrack to Our Class: Reading, Writing, and Speaking about Music	Emma Connolly
Keywords: community building, English Language Arts, figurative language, Identity, Middle School, Reading, social-emotional learning, theme, writing
2021
Mapping it Out!	Nicole Flores
Keywords: 3-D Map, History, maps, Maps Skills, Neighborhoods, Reading, research skills, social studies
2020
How Can We Expect Them to Stand Up in a Crooked Room?	Regina Hastings
Keywords: cinema, communications, film, Media, Pop culture, Reading, Sociology, writing
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
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
Dawning of A Sunrise	Valerie Adams
Keywords: Critical thinking, Drama, ELA, fables, folktales, frame story, frame tale, Middle East, multi-intelligence, narrative, pair, Personal Identity, poetry, Reading, share, short stories, South Asia, storytelling, think, writing
I Am UnBroken: Deconstructing Modern American Poetry to Promote Self-Actualization For English Language Learners	Lisa (Yuk Kuen) Yau
Keywords: Emily Dickinson, long poems, Reading, short poems, Walt Whitman, writing
Reading, Writing, Rivers: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities Unit for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities	Emma Connolly
Keywords: learning disbability, Reading, writing
Celebrating Cultures of the World Through Reading and Writing Folktales	Katherine Volin
Keywords: cultures, folktales, Reading, storytelling, writing
2018
Learning Through the Lens: How Hollywood Shapes the Way We View History	Andrea Ferentchak
Keywords: American History, Creative Writing, History activity, Media, Reading
Novel and a Movie?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: Clips, Media, Novel, Pairing, Pop culture, Reading
The Great Gatsby & Media Literacy	David Jennis
Keywords: "The Great Gatsby", Cinematography, Creative Writing, Drama, Entertainment industry, Media, Reading, Screen writing
Everyone’s a Critic: Asking Meaningful Research Questions through Film	Keeler Park
Keywords: Cinematography, Creative Writing, developing research questions, Entertainment industry, essay, film, film in the classroom, Media, outline, Pop culture, public speaking, Reading, Research, research project, student choice, writing
The Awakening of the Black Panther: Shifting the Paradigm of Hollywood’s Portrayal of Africa	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: Africa, Creative Writing, Media, Reading, Screen writing
2017
Models on Earth and Space	Amatise Ponzo
Keywords: Earth Science, listening, Reading, Space Science
The Music of New Orleans and How It Shaped Its Culture	Chanelle Harley
Keywords: History, Reading, social studies, writing
2016
Your Galactic Address: Space, Place, and Perspective	Amanda Amanullah
Keywords: astronomy, elementary, English, fractions, Geography, geometry, Math, perspective, physics, point of view, Proportion, Ratio, Reading, scale, Science, social studies, solar system, space, Space Science, universe, writing
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
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
2013
Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in High School Biology Curricula	Stuart Surrey
Keywords: biological sciences, Biology, Reading, reading skills, reading strategies