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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights

Aisha Al-Muid 2020
Keywords: African American, cinema, civil rights, film, freedom, Hair, Media

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: Environmental Humanities from the Tidal Schuylkill River


This is the Story of a River

Chelsea Trainor 2019
Keywords: environment, interdisciplinary, reading skills, self contained, writing skills

Seminar: From Slavery to Civil Rights


50 Years and Beyond:Philadelphia after the Emancipation Proclamation

Terry Anne Wildman 2013
Keywords: English, History, language arts, literacy, Pennsylvania History, social studies

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


Love to Tell the Story: West African Expressions Come to West Philadelphia

Bonnee Breese 2008
Keywords: African people, cross-cultural understanding, cultural and historical backgrounds, discover and explore, dismantle stigmas and stereotypes, English Language Arts, oral storytelling, Overbrook neighborhoods of West Philadelphia, storytelling, written storytelling

Philadelphia Stories: African Transitions from West Africa to Philadelphia as a Means to Study Oral Histories

Stephanie R. Wicks 2008
Keywords: African American History, African immigrants in Philadelphia, English, ethnography, historical research, historiography, learn content through oral history, learning history, love of history, love of learning, oral history project, story time, storytelling

Seminar: History of Hollywood


Everyone’s a Critic: Asking Meaningful Research Questions through Film

Keeler Park 2018
Keywords: Cinematography, Creative Writing, developing research questions, Entertainment industry, essay, film, film in the classroom, Media, outline, Pop culture, public speaking, Reading, Research, research project, student choice, writing

Seminar: Is There Any Life in the Worlds Beyond Our Own?


Creating Life!

Nicole Flores 2017
Keywords: astronomy, Earth Science, Science, Space Science

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry


A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But How Many Pictures is a Word Worth?

Femi-Ama K. Johnson 2013
Keywords: English, language arts, literacy, writing

Poetry Out Loud: Reading, Reciting, and Responding to Poetry

Stacia Parker 2013
Keywords: close reading, English, High School, out loud, poetry, spoken word

The Color of Beauty in the Darkness – Using Poetry and Art to Create a Visual Picture of Your World

Michelle Todd 2013
Keywords: English, figurative language, Langston Hughes, Middle School, poetry, segregation

The Art of the Poem in Poems of Art: Using Visuals and Close Readings to Aid Creative Writing

Sydney Hunt Coffin 2013
Keywords: Art, Creative Writing, modern art, poetry

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary U.S. Poetry


Poets Imagining the City

Sally O’Brien 2019
Keywords: imagination, Literature, O'hara, poetry, Whitman, writing prompts

Borders and Doorways: Using Poetry of Constraint to Explore Boundaries and Possibilities

Sophia Renda 2019
Keywords: English, History, poetry, us history

I Am UnBroken: Deconstructing Modern American Poetry to Promote Self-Actualization For English Language Learners

Lisa (Yuk Kuen) Yau 2019
Keywords: American poetry, Emily Dickinson, poetry, Walt Whitman

Seminar: Multi-Cultural Fairy Tales: Portals to the Humanities


Coming of Age in Never-land Transformation in Multi-Cultural Fairy Tales

John Pickersgill 2010
Keywords: american dream, cinderella, fairt, seamstresses of france, sleeping beauty

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


The Slavery Project: Why It All Matters

Nora Karasanyi 2020
Keywords: “Negro Spirituals”, abolition, abolitionist, awakening, bondage, discrimination, emancipation, existence, freedom – spiritual, inequality, justice, kidnapping, memory book, monologue, oppression, physical, proclamation, racism, Reverse Underground Railroad, Slavery, subservient, suffrage, Underground Railroad

Forging A Connection: Releasing the Bondage of Internalized Oppression through Quality Social Studies Instruction

Sondra W. Gonzalez 2020
Keywords: abolitionist, internalized racism. vacant esteem. ever-present anger. racial socialization, Slavery

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


Propaganda and “Truth”: How Do You Know?

Elisabeth Raab 2009
Keywords: English, High School, persuasion, Propaganda, rhetoric

Why Do You Ask? An Introduction to Interview & Survey Methodology

Kate Reber 2009
Keywords: 12th grade, Bradley Effect, election polls, Ex-Slaves, exploring bias in research, Graduation Project, interview, research based, research methodologies, research strategies, research topics, School of the Future, service-learning project, skill building, survey, West Philadelphia