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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Cities through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender


Exploring Our City Through Images, Poetry, and Music

Katherine Volin 2021
Keywords: class, gender, Music, poetry, race

Seminar: Critical Thinking in Elementary School English Language Arts


Critical Thinking in Elementary School English Language Arts

Karen Detlefsen, Terry-Anne Wildman, Eliezer Gottlieb, Geralyn McGinty, Kimberly Gallagher, Kireema Sprowal, Lisa Yau, Melissa Green, Peggy Savage, Stephen Esser, Allauren Forbes 2019
Keywords: Critical thinking, ELA, elementary, English

Seminar: Democracy and Expertise in Science, History and Literature


A Voice of My Own: Defining Epistemic Injustice in The House on Mango Street

Keeler Park 2021
Keywords: book study, collaborative reading, Creative Writing, Culture, ethnicity, gender, igno-rance, immigrant experience, injustice, knowledge, lan-guage arts, literacy, philosophy, social class, social justice, society, The House on Mango Street, women empowerment, writing project

All Voices Heard–Supporting the Multicultural Classroom

Carrie Ochs Toledo 2021
Keywords: 5th grade, democratic classroom, diversity, ELA, Els, epistemic injustice, multicultural, storytelling

Seminar: Educating for American Democracy


“There Must Come A Change”: School-Based Black Educational Activism in Philadelphia

Danina M. Garcia-Fuller 2022
Keywords: 1967 Walkout, African American History, Literary Societies, rhetoric, School District History

Who Owns The Land?: The Sparrow’s Principle and Anti-Gentrification in Philadelphia

Tyriese James Holloway 2022
Keywords: gentrification, Marita’s Bargain

Untangling Hair Discrimination

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau 2022
Keywords: CROWN act, Gender Bias, Hair, hair discrimination, hair laws, hairstyles, Native American boarding school, queue, race bias, tignon

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


Kids Love Stories

Nan Richmond 2008
Keywords: attitudes towards young and old people, celebrations, community culture, evaluate, folktales, games, heroes, interactional routines, language arts, language of origin, local settings, problem solving, relating to life, retelling, social studies, Technology, values

Folktales: Trickster Stories Across Time – From African Ancestors to African American Rappers

Wilda Hayward 2008
Keywords: African, African American, African Diaspora, African folktales, anthropology, ESOL, folktales, hip-hop, legacy, Middle Passage, rap, trickster stories, West African storytellers

Seminar: Learning about America and the World from McDonald’s


The Art of the Ad: A Critical Investigation of Persuasive Tactics

Alima McKnight 2019
Keywords: advertising, confidence, Critical thinking, English language learners, ESOL, opinion writing, persuasive writing, Self-Regulated Learning (SRL), special education, SpEd, theme

Seminar: Listening to the Music of Contemporary Africa: History, Politics, and Human Origins


Tale of Two Cities: Cultural Capital of Hip Hop in Kenya and Philadelphia

Jeri Johnson, M.S. Ed., M.S. School Psychology 2021
Keywords: black placemaking, Charles Dickens, Chris Emdin, COVID-19, critical hip-hop pedagogy (CHHP), Elizabeth Acevedo, hip-hop music, Kenya Vision 2030, mind-mapping, musical patterns, Philadelphia Vision 2035

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry


Close Reading of Modern Poetry: A Study in Form and Content

Julie Mikolajewski 2013
Keywords: close reading, content, form, modern poetry, poetry

Seminar: New Approaches to the History of Slavery: The View from the Penn and Slavery Project


Liberated Through Literacy: The African American Pursuit of Equity in Education

Charlette Walker 2020
Keywords: anti-literacy laws, Black educators, Black history, courage, education, ELA, literacy, neo-slavery, Reading, resilience, Slavery, systemic racism

Seminar: Numeracy: Literacy in Applying Numbers


Achievement and Delight: When Mathematics and Literature Cross Paths

Barbara McDowell Dowdall 2009
Keywords: advanced placement english, ELA, Math

Seminar: Oats, Kings, Proofs, and Climate Change: How Do You Know?


Is Seeing Believing?

Rita Sorrentino 2009
Keywords: camera, digital age, photography

Seminar: Physics in the Arts


Can You Hear Me Now? – Exploring the Science of Sound

Rita Sorrentino 2007
Keywords: acoustics, computer science, elementary school, hearing, language arts, medium, physics, Science, sound, speech, Technology, vibrations, wave motion

Cartoon Animation and Films in Literature: Intrinsic to Physics

Bonnee L. Breese 2007
Keywords: cartoon animation, English Language Arts, film, film editing, literacy terms, Making connections, Math, physics, physics vocabulary, Science

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam

Sydney Hunt Coffin 2015
Keywords: American empire, American History, Memorial Day, vietnam war

Bomba and Chicken: Afro-Latinas in the United States

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2015
Keywords: Afro latinas, Afro-latin culture, Bomba, Bomba dance, chicken

Causes of the Haitian Revolution revealed in primary sources and its challenges on a fragile structure of an imperialist nation

Kathleen Radebaugh 2015
Keywords: Creole, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialist, Politics