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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: American Racial Politics


American Racial Politics and A Little Town Called Arthington

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2012
Keywords: Africa, Arthington, History, racial politics

Transition from Slavery – A Study of Reconstruction

Sandy O’Keefe 2012
Keywords: American civil war, Civil War, Reconstruction, Slavery

Environmental Justice and Social Action

Leslie Petruzzi 2012
Keywords: environmental justice, racism, social action, Social change

Liberty and Justice for (Not) All

Rita Sorrentino 2012
Keywords: American History, civil rights era, justice, liberty, Reconstruction

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

Dance, Readings, Acting, Music, and Art (D.R.A.M.A.): A Study of African American Performing and Visual Arts in the 1940s – 1950s

Leslie Carlis 2007
Keywords: acting, African American, Art, dance, Music, performing arts, Reading, visual arts

Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era

Carole Chernecky 2007
Keywords: African American, American Literature, Art, artist, Drama, Elgnish, Identity, Paul Robeson, social justice, social studies

The Harlem Renaissance

Richard P. Holmes 2007
Keywords: African American, African American art, African American History, dance, History, Literature, Music, The Harlem Renaissance

Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico

Audrey J. Jackson 2007
Keywords: African American art, Art, artists, Mexico, printmaking, social awareness

Celebrated Impressions from the Painters of Paris

Debra Migden 2007
Keywords: Art, artists, Impressionist, Paris, society

The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity

Pamela Toller 2007
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate

Seminar: Asian Americans in U.S. Schools


Latin Asians: Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in Latin America

Alisha Davis 2022
Keywords: Culture, ethnicity, High School, Identity, Latino, panethnicity, project based learning, race, social studies education

The Immigrant Experience through Literature and History

Sarah Vieldhouse 2022
Keywords: ELA, English, immigration, Literature Circles, Middle School, Research

Celebrating Asian Culture

Dorothy Martin 2022
Keywords: Asia, Culture, customs, Diwali, holiday, Lunar New Year, New Year

Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography


Have You Ever Told That Story Before? Student Biographers Asking Important Life Questions, Preserving Memories and Writing History

Joyce Arnosky 2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, language arts, social studies, writing

“Men of Bronze”: Reflecting on Legacy of the Hellfighters of Harlem

Tara Ann Carter 2016
Keywords: African Americans, comic books, English, graphic novels, Harlem Hellfighters, History, Max Brooks, Military History, New York, primary source documents, Secondary Source Documents, Sociology, soldiers, The Great Migration, World War I, Writing Workshop

Linking Cultures and History During Colonial Pennsylvania

Karen J. Burrell 2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, Informational text, Pennsylvania History, social studies, William Penn

Finding Freedom—Heroes of the Underground Railroad

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2016
Keywords: Harriet Tubman, James Still, Thomas Garrett, Underground Railroad

Are They REALLY That Different?

Nicole Flores 2016
Keywords: Compare, elementary, English, Fifth-Grade, Literature, poetry, social studies

The Philadelphia Wax Museum: Exploring the History of a City Through Different Points of View

Tia D. Larese 2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, History, Philadelphia, revolutionary war, social studies, wax museum