Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Soft Robots
Exploring Soft Robotics Through the Movie Big Hero 6	Charlette Walker	2022
Keywords: Big Hero 6, digital literacy, English Language Arts, Google suite, robotics, soft robotics, soft robots, Technology
Seminar: Taking up the Mantle: African American Women Writers After Morrison
What does it mean to be a Migrant?: Using mentor texts to understand migration	Katherine Volin	2022
Keywords: immigration, migration, poetry, travel
Language, Memory and Bearing Witness: Morrison as Muse for Modern Musings	Ryann Rouse	2022
Keywords: Citing Evidence, collaborative discussion, ELA, Humanities, KWLQ charts, language, Literary Analysis, M.E.A.L. paragraphs, memoir, Memoir Writing, Reader Response Journals, Reading Circles, storytelling
Modern and Contemporary African American Women Poets	Monica Rowley	2022
Keywords: African American, Black Poets, context, Creative Writing, form, function, language, literary devices, poetry, Women poets, women writers, Workshop
“Reading as Writer: Critical Creative Race Thinking Following Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”	Gregory Probst	2022
Keywords: African American, Africanist., American Africanism, American Literature, blackness, Critical Race Theory, cultural identity, English Language Arts, hybridity, imagination, intersectionality, literary criticism, playing in the dark, queer theory, reading as a writer, Recitatif, teacherless writing workshops, The Crucible, third space, Toni Morrison, whiteness
Exceptional Women: We See You!	Karen Brinkley	2022
Keywords: Achievement Gap, Black joy, culturally, culturally relevant, diversity, Literature, socially transformative curation
Everybody Has a Story….What is Yours?	Tasha Russell	2022
Keywords: banned, Critical Race Theory, digital stories, personal narrative, student voice
Finding Your Voice… then Shouting!	Nicole Flores	2022
Keywords: 5th Grade ELA, activism, comprehension, Novel, poetry, Research, social justice
Living a Values Driven Life	Regina Hastings	2022
Keywords: ELA, Movie Analysis, Novel Analysis, Self Improvement, social justice, values, vocabulary
Seminar: Teaching the Holocaust: Bearing Witness
Getting Stuck in the Telling: The Dichotomous Nature of Urgent Tales Analyzing and Crafting Accounts that Bear Witness	Julie Mikolajewski	2014
Keywords: consumption approach, History, Holocaust, literacy, Literature, storytelling
Heart to Heart: Adolescents Connect to Holocaust Survivors	Joan Taylor	2014
Keywords: History, Holocaust, survivors, video transcripts
Seminar: The Aesthetics of Hip Hop
Hip Hop Notions	Audrey J. Jackson	2008
Keywords: African American painters, break dancing, Bronx, expressive performance, fashion, hip hop life style, hip-hop, Jamaica, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kingston, listening, rap music, rhyming, speaking, Visual Art, visual graffiti, writing, youth culture
The Sankofa – Hip Hop Connection	Karen L. Brinkley	2008
Keywords: analyze and critique, comparative analysis, Critical thinking, Ghana, hip-hop, importance of music, movies, past traditions, primary source documents, rap music, sankofa, Technology, Twi language
Dissecting Lyrics	Lisa Katzer	2008
Keywords: 4th Grade, 5th grade, display, dissecting lyrics, figurative language, hip-hop, listening skills, meaning and awareness, meaningful learning, perform, rap music, vocabulary, writing poetry
Using Rap Lyrics as a Resource in the Secondary English Classroom	Lisa Kelly	2008
Keywords: African American, African-based American art form, analyze, Bronx, city students, comments on current events, enjoy, literary devices, literary skills, literary styles, rap music, rap tells stories, relevant to student life, tells stories, trace themes
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
Dark Matters	Valerie Adams	2020
Keywords: black hole, CER framework, dark fantastic, ebony elizabeth thomas, imagination, milky way galaxy
Speculative Fiction: Using an Ethnic and Cultural Lens for Story Telling	Peggy Marie Savage	2020
Keywords: speculative fiction, storytelling, the dark fantastic
Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic	Ryann M. Rouse	2020
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction
Speculative Poetry: Making Sense of the Present and Shaping the Future	Sarah Vieldhouse	2020
Keywords: analysis, imagination, poetry, speculative poetry