Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Aliens and Others: African Americans [Re]Writing Generic Fiction
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
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores	2015
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
You Lookin’ For Me?	Glenza Lowman	2015
Keywords: Black history, Black History month, writing
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
“A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words”: Telling Stories Through Paint, Photography and Poetry Using Technology	Dale Apple	2010
Keywords: Harlem Renaissance, poetry, Technology
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
Settling of the West: Expansion, Emigration, and Extermination	Nancy B. Matlack	2010
Keywords: American History, emmigration, History, indian massacre, Native American History
Fitzgerald & Hopper: Windows on the 1920s	Kate Reber	2010
Keywords: African American History, American History, great gatsby
Romare Bearden: Commemorating the Centennial Birthday of the Man of Many Parts	Rita Sorrentino	2010
Keywords: elementary poetry, poetry, Romare Bearden
Literature and Visual Art of the Urban Experience	Zachary F. Wright	2010
Keywords: 19th century, 20th century writers, Emerson, Thomas COle, Thoreau
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
The Intersections of Law and Health	Jordan Solomon	2009
Keywords: American History, childhood health, Health, health legislation, law and health, legislation, persuasive writing, physical education, writing
From Little Rock to Philadelphia: A Look at School Desegregation	Alison McCartney	2009
Keywords: Arkansas, Central High School, desegregation, little rock, Little Rock Nine, Philadelphia, racial inequalities, Research, school desegregation, Warriors Don't Cry
American Politics through Literary Exposures: Film, Essays, & Speeches	Bonnee Breese	2009
Keywords: american politics, language arts
Seminar: American Racial Politics
“We got to use what we got.” How Birmingham’s Children Became Foot Soldiers on the Front Lines in the Fight for Civil Rights Birmingham, Alabama 1963	Joyce Arnosky	2012
Keywords: Alabama, Birmingham, Black History month, civil rights, segregation
The African-American Graphic Novel: Discovering, Examining and Creating Graphic Narratives of Racialized Experience	Tara Ann Carter	2012
Keywords: civil rights, graphic novel, race
“Can We All Get Along?” Evaluating Racism in the Media	Elisabeth R. Yucis	2012
Keywords: American History, Media, racism
Seminar: Art and the Life of the City
Strange Fruit – Metaphors, Music and Place – Jazz and Hip Hop as Reflective of the Times	Samuel A. Reed, III	2007
Keywords: Art, Culture, hip-hop, Jazz, lyrics, Music, popular culture, Reading, social studies, society, videos, writing