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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Storytelling Traditions of South Asia and the Middle East


Dawning of A Sunrise

Valerie Adams 2019
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

Student Personal Stories: Another Step to Unleashing Lifelong Learning

Nora Karasanyi 2019
Keywords: Animal Farm, Canterbury Tales, critical readers, critical writers, fables, frame story, lifelong learning, Middle East, motivation, personal frame stories., South East Asia

Celebrating Cultures of the World Through Reading and Writing Folktales

Katherine Volin 2019
Keywords: cultures, folktales, Reading, storytelling, writing

Chasing Cinderella: Following One Story Around the World

Phyllis Zimmer 2019
Keywords: cinderella, Culture, PBL, Philadelphia, stories

Seminar: Surfaces, Technology and Life


Bone, Muscle and Prosthetic Unit for Surfaces and Nanotechnology

Nancy Baulis 2009
Keywords: bones, muscles, Nanotechnology, prosthetics

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 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

Is it Still a Brave New World?

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

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


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

Bearing Witness: Understanding Holocaust Testimony Within Urban High School Students’ Lives

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2014
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander

Students are Survivors Too: Bearing Witness to the Stories of Our Lives Through Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Eilis Hood 2014
Keywords: European history, Holocaust, witness testimony, writing