Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: African American Poets in the 21st Century
Prosody and the African American Poet: A Case for Close Reading	Deborah Samuel	2009
Keywords: active engagement, close readings, Critical thinking, English, English literature, examine, literary techniques, Literature, poetry, read, slow down
LA POESÍA DE LAS AMERICAS	Michael Steele-Eytle	2009
Keywords: Afro-American poets, art and music, interpretation, language acquisition, lens of Spanish Translation, listening, poetic structure, Reading, Spanish, speaking, writing
Southwest Philadelphia: What it was and how we see it today	Deanna M. Stephan	2009
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
Seminar: Aliens and Others: African Americans [Re]Writing Generic Fiction
“What If…?”	Joyce Arnosky	2015
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel
(re)viewing bodies: The Walking Dead and Social Constructions in a Post-Apocalyptic Society	Tara Ann Carter	2015
Keywords: “The Comet”, African American History, language arts, Literature, Reading, Social Construction, The Walking Dead, W.E.B. Du Bois, writing
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover	2015
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World	Wendi Mungai Umoren	2015
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum	2015
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, Easy Rawlins, fantasy, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley
“Mystery and Detective Literature Activities” “That’s Elementary, My Dear Watson”	Karen J. Burrell	2015
Keywords: literacy, literature activities, literature genres, problem solving
Employing Science Fiction to Increase Literacy in the Science Classroom	Cristobal Carambo	2015
Keywords: Science, science fiction, science literacy
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores	2015
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
You Lookin’ For Me?	Glenza Lowman	2015
Keywords: Black history, Black History month, writing
An Alien in the Cotton Fields: 47 by Walter Mosley	Joan Taylor	2015
Keywords: cotton fields, Literature, Slavery, social realism, Walter Mosley
Seminar: Alternative Energy Systems: What is New Under the Sun?
Biofuels: An Alternative to Fossil Fuel	Stuart Surrey	2010
Keywords: fossil fuel, global warming, natural cycles
Driving Change: Alternative Fuel Vehicles	Galeet Cohen	2010
Keywords: alternative energy, alternative fuel, natural gas, technologies, vehicles
Alternative Energy Resources Unit On Wind Energy	John DiFiore	2010
Keywords: engineering, non-renewable energy, physics, renewable energy
Renewable Resources: The Path To The Future	Troy J. Holiday	2010
Keywords: alternative energy, renewable resources
Global Warming in the City: Unit for the Greenhouse Effect	Deborah Smithey	2010
Keywords: city, global warming, greenhouse effect, public housing, subsidized housing
Energy Eaters and Energy Feeders	Nicole Haentjens Traore	2010
Keywords: alternative energy, energy, power
Seminar: American Capitalism
African American Women Workers in 19th Century and 20th Century Philadelphia	Myrtle Bastien	2007
Keywords: African American History, African American women, American economic system, poverty, racial prejudice