Unit Title	Author
2020
Dark Matters	Valerie Adams
Keywords: black hole, CER framework, dark fantastic, ebony elizabeth thomas, imagination, milky way galaxy
The Superhero Self: Speculative Fiction for Identity Development and Social Change	Emma Connolly
Keywords: fiction, imagination, learning support, special education, superheroes
Storytelling for Freedom: How Black speculative stories can give us hope for a better future	Gina Dukes
Keywords: dark fantastic, freedom, hope, storytelling
Saving Ourselves: Exploring Identity and Imagined Realities Through Comics	Maddie Luebbert
Keywords: comics, dark fantastic, imagination, superhero genre, systemic racism
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
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
Here I Am: Graphic Novels as Social Equalizers for English Language Learners	Tia D. Larese
Keywords: comics, English language learners, graphic novels, the dark fantastic
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
A History of Philadelphia: Redlining and the Founding Ideals of Democracy	Alexander de Arana
Keywords: democracy, History, Philadelphia, social science
Planting the Seeds of Responsibility and Growing Citizens	Alima McKnight
Keywords: African Americans, change, citizen, citizenship, Government, rights, society, voting
Philadelphia’s Population Change: Using Data Visualization to Understand a Historical Narrative	Andrew Guyon
Keywords: Data visualization, historical narrative, mathematics lesson, Philadelphia history, quantitative data
Exploring Community Local and Global though Primary Documents and Artifacts: Where do I Stand and What Can I Learn from the Past?	Alla Dolderer
Keywords: artifacts, ESL, local community, low proficiency ESL, Philadelphia history, primary documents
Establishing Inclusion and Belonging in a Globalized City	Amanda Fiegel
Keywords: belonging, brain drain, brain waste, care drain, city space, Culture, discrimination, globalization, Identity, immigration, Marxism, public and private spheres, push and pull factors, Social Identity Theory, spatial immobility, structural violence and, xenophobia
Heritage or Renewal: The Impacts of Gentrification	Matthew Menschner
Keywords: gentrification, heritage, local history, Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Studying Mexico City Through Many Layers	Meghan Agnew
Keywords: city systems, Mexico city, Mexico history
Ciudades mexicanas en el pasado y el presente (Mexican Cities in the Past and Present)	Sean Carr
Keywords: colonial Mexico, Mexican cities, Mexican culture, modern MExico, Spanish 2
The City In History: Mastering Essential Research Skills	William Otto
Keywords: computer research, computer science, research skills