Unit Title	Author
2022
Considering Cultural Communities in the Middle School Literacy Classroom	Emma Connolly
Keywords: assimilation, comprehension instruction, Culture, discussion, ethnicity, graphic novels, Identity, Middle School, special education, vocabulary instruction
How Coal Changed Philadelphia: 1820-1865	William McGeehan
Keywords: antebellum Philadelphia, Coal, industrialization, ironworking, locomotives, mineral energy, nativism, poverty, social reform, steamships, textile mills, water pollution, whiteness
“Teaching Black visual culture through PBL”	Alla Dolderer
Keywords: African American culture, Art, Black culture, Black History month, ekphratic poems, moving pictures, photography, video clips, visual culture
Visual Music: Hip-Hop Style	Courtney Powers
Keywords: Authentic Audience, Authentic Music, Beyonce, Digital Music, Frederick Douglass, Intermedia, Jaffa, Jay Z, Kanye West, project based learning, Visual Music, Whole Music
Self-Representation is the Message, the Message is Power	Meredith Seung Mee Buse
Keywords: artists of color, Black artists, Black gaze, ekphrastic writing, empowerment, Frederick Douglass, personal narratives, poetry, portfolios, Portraiture, self-portraits, self-representation, visual vocabulary
Evaluate the Power of a “Heart on Fire”	Theresa Eck
Keywords: analyzing historical evidence, APUSH, challenging dominant narratives, dominant narrative, HIPP, nation state, progressivism, Reconstruction
Asian Americans in Education	Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: Asian Americans, culturally responsive teaching, immigration, model minority
Old City Philadelphia	Mary Patricia Lavin
Moments of Racialization	Megan McNamara
Keywords: “Asian American 1969”, “Asian American UCLA”, “Asian American”, “Muslim American”, “Theory of Knowledge Unit Plan”, “TOK Unit Plan”, History, Jesse Jackson “African American”, LGBT movement, race, Racialization, Stonewall
Asian Americans in Media: Representation & Identity	Tia Larese
Keywords: Digital Learning, diversity, elementary, ELL, English language learners, Immigrant, Intercultural Classroom, Misrepresentation, Representation, social justice
The Immigrant Experience through Literature and History	Sarah Vieldhouse
Keywords: ELA, English, immigration, Literature Circles, Middle School, Research
Blood Money – The Making of Philadelphia’s Heroes	Deborah Wei
Cultivating our Cultural Identities	Rebecca Horner
Keywords: bilingualism, butterfly, caterpillar, Culture, EL, ESL, ESOL, ethnicity, family, Food, kindergarten, kinesthetic, parental involvement, parents, phonemic awareness, primary, social capital
Celebrating Asian Culture	Dorothy Martin
Keywords: Asia, Culture, customs, Diwali, holiday, Lunar New Year, New Year
Awake the Uniqueness in Me!	Dr. David L. Turner
Keywords: Barrack Obama, Black culture, Black gaze, black hair, Black history, Fredrick Douglass, James Baldwin and Tina Campt, Toni Morrison, white gaze
Sing, Unburied, Sing	Renae Curless
Keywords: American Literature, American South, Ekphrastic poetry, English Language Arts, Film analysis, Found poetry, High school English, Mississippi Delta, Moonlight, Natasha Tretheway, Parchman Prison, Sing, Unburied Sing
Who Tells Your Story? The Power of Debate and Discourse in the High School Classroom	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Christopher Columbus, debate, High School, Monument, Mural, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky
“Love Is The Message”*: Black Visual Art As Historically Responsive Literacy	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Black gaze, Critical Race Theory, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Ekphrastic poetry, Historically Responsive Literacy, Visual Art
Political Parties: Vehicles or Disruptors of American Democracy?	Alexander de Arana
Keywords: Democrats, interest groups, multiparty system, Political parties, Republicans, third parties, two-party system
Indigenous Voices: Crossroads between Monuments and Trees	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: Crazy Horse, indigenous people, Little Bighorn Battlefield., Monuments, Mount Rushmore, Penn Treaty Tree