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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: History of Hollywood


The Great Gatsby & Media Literacy

David Jennis 2018
Keywords: "The Great Gatsby", Cinematography, Creative Writing, Drama, Entertainment industry, Media, Reading, Screen writing

Reds in Tinseltown: The Cold War, Hollywood, and Blacklisting

Matthew Menschner 2018
Keywords: American History, Cinematography, Cold War, Entertainment industry, Media, Media Strategies, Media Studies, Politics, Pop culture, Propaganda, World politics, World War II

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

Seminar: Is There Any Life in the Worlds Beyond Our Own?


Life on Spinning Rocks

Maya Bhagat 2017
Keywords: alien, astronomy, Earth Science, geology, planets

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry


Poets Imagining the City

Sally O’Brien 2019
Keywords: imagination, Langston Hughes, Mary Oliver, poetry, writing prompt

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But How Many Pictures is a Word Worth?

Femi-Ama K. Johnson 2013
Keywords: English, language arts, literacy, writing

Poetry Out Loud: Reading, Reciting, and Responding to Poetry

Stacia Parker 2013
Keywords: close reading, English, High School, out loud, poetry, spoken word

The Color of Beauty in the Darkness – Using Poetry and Art to Create a Visual Picture of Your World

Michelle Todd 2013
Keywords: English, figurative language, Langston Hughes, Middle School, poetry, segregation

Enhancing Beginning Reading Skills Through Poetry

Pamela Elters 2013
Keywords: literacy, poetry, reading skills, Shel Silverstein

The Ringing of Bells: Joyful Sounds of Poetry

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2013
Keywords: American Literature, listeining skills, poetry, writing skills

Close Reading of Modern Poetry: A Study in Form and Content

Julie Mikolajewski 2013
Keywords: close reading, content, form, modern poetry, poetry

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary U.S. Poetry


Come for It! An Introduction to Poetry and Poetics

Robert McClung 2019
Keywords: anthology, close reading, collaborative learning, independent learning, modern poetry, poetry

Poetry is my Jam!: Teaching Text Analysis through Poetry and Music

Keeler Park 2019
Keywords: analysis, creative texts, critical vocabulary, Music, poetry

Seminar: Multi-Cultural Fairy Tales: Portals to the Humanities


Fairytales, Folktales, and Animal Tales: A Culturally Responsive Approach to Literacy

Aimee Davis 2010
Keywords: African American folktales, fairytales, West African Geography

Teaching Similar and Different Through Fairy Tale Variants

Melissa Freeman 2010
Keywords: cinderella, literacy, multicultural

Once Upon an Opposite: Using Multi-Cultural Trickster Tales to Promote Literacy

Klair McGlynn 2010
Keywords: fairytales, leprechaun, literacy, St Patricks Day, trickster stories

Using Variants of Red Riding Hood to Build Critical Reading Skills

Mindy Cohen 2010
Keywords: fairytales, reading skills, red riding hood

Who is Cinderella, … or Cinderfella?

Donna Rohanna 2010
Keywords: cinderella, literacy, Reading

Seminar: Oats, Kings, Proofs, and Climate Change: How Do You Know?


Propaganda and “Truth”: How Do You Know?

Elisabeth Raab 2009
Keywords: English, High School, persuasion, Propaganda, rhetoric

Seminar: Painless Statistics for Teachers and Teaching


Statistics for First Grade, What Do You Mean?

Catherine Cmiel 2013
Keywords: elementary, first graders, Math, Probability / Statistics, Statistics