Unit Title	Author
2010
Settling of the West: Expansion, Emigration, and Extermination	Nancy B. Matlack
Keywords: American History, emmigration, History, indian massacre, Native American History
2009
Looking at the Black Experience in America Through African American Poetry	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: 5th grade, African American, Black experience in America, History, poems, poetry, Reading, writing
P.O.W.E.R. : Profound. Original. Words. Expressing. Resilience.	Karen L. Brinkley
Keywords: afrian american literature, African American art, african american poetry, History, Literature, poetry
Philadelphia 1793: Yellow Fever, Race, Medicine and Politics	Mona Kolsky
Keywords: History, Medicine, Philadelphia, race, yellow fever
How Do You Know Anything About the Civil War?	Meagan C. McGowan
Keywords: Civil War, History, How do you know?
2008
Give and Take from the Great Demographic Fact: A Vagarious Look At Commercial Influence over Cultural Exchange in 20th- and 21st-century Philadelphia	Chadd S. Johnson
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration
Science, Science Fiction and American History	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: Civil War, fiction, History, invention, ironclad ships, Monitor and Merrimac, naval warfare, science fiction, secret weapon, submarine
Science Fiction of the Fifties: Reflections of Cold War Themes	Steven Shust
Keywords: American History, Cold War, cold war culture, cold war politics, cold war technology, conformity, control, destruction through the lens of science fiction, fear, films, History, novels, science fiction, themes of alientation
2007
Why Are There Abandoned Factories in My Neighborhood?	Tim Woods
Keywords: History, Industrial history, Philadelphia, William Penn
The Harlem Renaissance	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: African American, African American art, African American History, dance, History, Literature, Music, The Harlem Renaissance
The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity	Pamela Toller
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate
The Story of Us: An Urban Fifth Grade Class Creates a Living History Document Through Memoir and Photography	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: analyze, data collection, History, literacy, Math, memoir, photography, social studies, Visual Art, writing
The Lesson the Piano Teaches: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and the African-American Experience It Illuminates	William S. Lewis
Keywords: African American History, August Wilson, griot, History, Literature, personal history
2006
Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians’ History, Culture and Food	Nancy Baulis
Keywords: beans, Corn, Culture, Growing of Food, History, Lenni-Lenape People, Philadelphia Region, Plant
Slavery in Philadelphia	Stephanie R. Wicks
Keywords: African Americans, Africans, Africans in Philadelphia, Fugitive Slave Laws, Gradual Abolition Act, History, Impact of Slavery, local, Slavery
Could We Learn Peace by Doing a Piece?	Kathryn Long
Keywords: design, discovery, History, murals, Philadelphia murals
The American Dream Redefined – How the Harlem Renaissance Questioned and Changed the Idea of the American Dream	Laura C. Jacklin
Keywords: History, Literature, maryann dicker, poetry, The Harlem Renaissance