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All TIP Curriculum UnitsView by: Year | Seminar

Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Taking up the Mantle: African American Women Writers After Morrison


What does it mean to be a Migrant?: Using mentor texts to understand migration

Katherine Volin 2022
Keywords: immigration, migration, poetry, travel

Language, Memory and Bearing Witness: Morrison as Muse for Modern Musings

Ryann Rouse 2022
Keywords: Citing Evidence, collaborative discussion, ELA, Humanities, KWLQ charts, language, Literary Analysis, M.E.A.L. paragraphs, memoir, Memoir Writing, Reader Response Journals, Reading Circles, storytelling

Modern and Contemporary African American Women Poets

Monica Rowley 2022
Keywords: African American, Black Poets, context, Creative Writing, form, function, language, literary devices, poetry, Women poets, women writers, Workshop

“Reading as Writer: Critical Creative Race Thinking Following Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”

Gregory Probst 2022
Keywords: African American, Africanist., American Africanism, American Literature, blackness, Critical Race Theory, cultural identity, English Language Arts, hybridity, imagination, intersectionality, literary criticism, playing in the dark, queer theory, reading as a writer, Recitatif, teacherless writing workshops, The Crucible, third space, Toni Morrison, whiteness

Exceptional Women: We See You!

Karen Brinkley 2022
Keywords: Achievement Gap, Black joy, culturally, culturally relevant, diversity, Literature, socially transformative curation

Everybody Has a Story….What is Yours?

Tasha Russell 2022
Keywords: banned, Critical Race Theory, digital stories, personal narrative, student voice

Finding Your Voice… then Shouting!

Nicole Flores 2022
Keywords: 5th Grade ELA, activism, comprehension, Novel, poetry, Research, social justice

Living a Values Driven Life

Regina Hastings 2022
Keywords: ELA, Movie Analysis, Novel Analysis, Self Improvement, social justice, values, vocabulary

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Science, Science Fiction and American History

Myrtle Bastien 2008
Keywords: Civil War, fiction, History, invention, ironclad ships, Monitor and Merrimac, naval warfare, science fiction, secret weapon, submarine

Science Through Science Fiction in a Hot Air Balloon

Nancy Baulis 2008
Keywords: aeronautics, air machines, Dirigibles, fantasy, Hindenburg, hot air balloon, Math, Philadelphia Zoo, Science, science fiction, social studies, weather, Wizard of Oz, writing

Genetics through the Eyes of Tomorrow

Wendy J. Hafford 2008
Keywords: Beyond This Horizon, Brave New World, creativity, Critical thinking, Gattaca, genetics, Media, Science, writing

Possible Worlds (I)

Elizabeth M. Harvey 2008
Keywords: biological sciences, Biology, Blood Child, Brave New World, environment, genetics, governmental structures, I, robot, Science, societal structures, Technology

Teaching Inquiry with Science Fiction

Christine Lokey 2008
Keywords: broaden vocabulary, literacy and inquiry, oral language, Reading, real world experience, Scientific inquiry, scientific reasoning, writing

Possible Worlds (II)

Kate Reber 2008
Keywords: American History, Bloodchild, Brave New World, Humanities, interdisciplinary, Math, possible world, Science, Technology, world history

Is it Still a Brave New World?

Deborah Samuel 2008
Keywords: Beyond This Horizon, Biology, Brave New World, English, literacy, neuropsychology, technological advances

Science Fiction of the Fifties: Reflections of Cold War Themes

Steven Shust 2008
Keywords: American History, Cold War, cold war culture, cold war politics, cold war technology, conformity, control, destruction through the lens of science fiction, fear, films, History, novels, science fiction, themes of alientation

Teaching Science with Science Fiction

Stuart Surrey 2008
Keywords: atomic structure, audiovisual, chemical reactions, Chemistry, energy, English, flow of energy, matter, printed, Science, science fiction

Seek and Save the Yeti Campaign

Maxine Tumaian 2008
Keywords: art critique, career, conservation quests, cross-curricular, cryptozoology, film interpretation, Middle School, scientific process, vocabulary builders, Yeti

Seminar: Teaching the Holocaust: Bearing Witness


You’re OK, I’m OK, It’s Good We Are Different

Elters, Pamela 2014
Keywords: differences, literacy, similarities, tolerance

Using Lessons Learned Through a Study of the Holocaust to Teach Children to Become Upstanders

Joyce Arnosky 2014
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander