Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: History of Hollywood
Novel and a Movie?	Nicole Flores	2018
Keywords: Clips, Media, Novel, Pairing, Pop culture, Reading
The Great Gatsby & Media Literacy	David Jennis	2018
Keywords: "The Great Gatsby", Cinematography, Creative Writing, Drama, Entertainment industry, Media, Reading, Screen writing
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
The Awakening of the Black Panther: Shifting the Paradigm of Hollywood’s Portrayal of Africa	Wendi Mungai Umoren	2018
Keywords: Africa, Creative Writing, Media, Reading, Screen writing
Seminar: Is There Any Life in the Worlds Beyond Our Own?
Models on Earth and Space	Amatise Ponzo	2017
Keywords: Earth Science, listening, Reading, Space Science
Seminar: Multi-Cultural Fairy Tales: Portals to the Humanities
Who is Cinderella, … or Cinderfella?	Donna Rohanna	2010
Keywords: cinderella, literacy, Reading
Seminar: Music and Healing in Philadelphia
Soundtrack to Our Class: Reading, Writing, and Speaking about Music	Emma Connolly	2023
Keywords: community building, English Language Arts, figurative language, Identity, Middle School, Reading, social-emotional learning, theme, writing
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: 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
Celebrating Cultures of the World Through Reading and Writing Folktales	Katherine Volin	2019
Keywords: cultures, folktales, Reading, storytelling, writing
Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction
Teaching Inquiry with Science Fiction	Christine Lokey	2008
Keywords: broaden vocabulary, literacy and inquiry, oral language, Reading, real world experience, Scientific inquiry, scientific reasoning, writing
Seminar: That's My Song! Musical Genre as Social Contract
The Music of New Orleans and How It Shaped Its Culture	Chanelle Harley	2017
Keywords: History, Reading, social studies, writing
Seminar: The Aesthetics of Hip Hop
Scratching beyond the Surface: Hip Hop and Its Art of Persuasion	Samuel A. Reed, III	2008
Keywords: commercial and community, Critical thinking, hip-hop, hip-hop lyrics, media literacy, non-print media, persuasion, persuasive digital stories, persuasive techniques, persuasive writing, rap music, Reading, social studies, traditional literacy, writing
Seminar: The Dark Fantastic: Reading Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comics to Change the World
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan	2020
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, fiction, Literature, Reading, science fiction, social studies, the Hunger Games, writing
Seminar: The Evolving Universe
Your Galactic Address: Space, Place, and Perspective	Amanda Amanullah	2016
Keywords: astronomy, elementary, English, fractions, Geography, geometry, Math, perspective, physics, point of view, Proportion, Ratio, Reading, scale, Science, social studies, solar system, space, Space Science, universe, writing
Seminar: Understanding the Process of Science and Evaluation of Evidence
Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in High School Biology Curricula	Stuart Surrey	2013
Keywords: biological sciences, Biology, Reading, reading skills, reading strategies