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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: 20th Century American Literature


Jim Crow and Apartheid: Walking hand in hand to the Promised Land

Stacia D. Parker 2007
Keywords: African American History, America, Apartheid, Harlem Renaissance, political literature, South Africa, think globally

Seminar: A Survey of Contemplative Practices Across the World's Religions


Be the Hero of Your Journey

Terry Anne Wildman 2017
Keywords: Creative Writing, History, Literature

Seminar: Africa in the Classroom


Tell Me About It: The Africa I Left Behind

Susan Bunch 2007
Keywords: Africa, ESL, ESOL, storytelling, traditions, West Africa

Seminar: African American Poets in the 21st Century


Looking at the Black Experience in America Through African American Poetry

Joyce Arnosky 2009
Keywords: 5th grade, African American, Black experience in America, History, poems, poetry, Reading, writing

P.O.W.E.R. : Profound. Original. Words. Expressing. Resilience.

Karen L. Brinkley 2009
Keywords: afrian american literature, African American art, african american poetry, History, Literature, poetry

Imagery in Action

Donna L. Jones 2009
Keywords: activism, african american poetry, Civil Disobedience, English 3, Imagery, Imagery in Action, literary devices, Literature, poetry

Bob Kaufman: Life According to the Beat

Lisa Kelly 2009
Keywords: Beats, Bob Kaufman, consumerism, discussions, literacy, literary movement, power, race, silencing in America

Homage to a Mockingbird: Poetry in Motion

Stacia D. Parker 2009
Keywords: 1930s, characters, collaboration, conscience, courage, found poem, haiku, Harper Lee, historical background, Historical Context, odes, poetry, social injustice, social order, social responsibility, sonnet, The Black Arts Movement, The Harlem Renaissance, themes, To Kill a Mockingbird

Brave Voices through Time and Space: Poetry Café for Young People

Samuel A. Reed, III 2009
Keywords: African American poets, Art, biography, constructive criticism, demystify poetry, figurative language, Middle School, Music, read, Reading, Research, social studies, speak, write, writing

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


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

An Alien in the Cotton Fields: 47 by Walter Mosley

Joan Taylor 2015
Keywords: cotton fields, Literature, Slavery, social realism, Walter Mosley

Seminar: American Literature and American Painting, 1840 to 1940


Here’s Lookin’ At You, Kid Growing Up in America Through Art and Literature

Joyce Arnosky 2010
Keywords: American History, childhood

Propaganda, Its History and Techniques, and Its Use by Proslavery and Abolitionist Movements

Lisa Kelly 2010
Keywords: abolitionists, History, proslavery, Slavery

Romare Bearden: Commemorating the Centennial Birthday of the Man of Many Parts

Rita Sorrentino 2010
Keywords: elementary poetry, poetry, Romare Bearden

Seminar: American Political Culture


Reconstruction: The Promises and Failures of Post-Civil War America

Hye-Won Gehring and Shanee Garner 2009
Keywords: 10th grade, 11th grade, African American History, American History, economic tropes, English, High School, historical contexts, literacy skills, political, Reconstruction, social, student-centered