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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Tangible History: Engaging Students Through Art of Indigenous Cultures

Alima McKnight 2021
Keywords: appreciation, appropriation, Art, Blackfoot, Culture, design, hands-on, Indigenous, Native American, Navajo, pottery, Pueblo, symbols, teepees, textiles, weaving

Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language

Greg Probst 2021
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern

Weaving for Healing and Connection

Karen Rufino 2021
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing

Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay

Katherine Steiner 2021
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Science, Science Fiction and American History

Myrtle Bastien 2008
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 2008
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

Seminar: Teaching the Holocaust: Bearing Witness


One Story, Innumerable Losses: Themes in Genocide

Brynn Allison McGinn 2014
Keywords: close reading, genocide, History, Holocaust, Literature, Rwanda, witness testimonies, writing

Seminar: That's My Song! Musical Genre as Social Contract


The Music of New Orleans and How It Shaped Its Culture

Chanelle Harley 2017
Keywords: History, Reading, social studies, writing

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

Seminar: The City in History


A History of Philadelphia: Redlining and the Founding Ideals of Democracy

Alexander de Arana 2020
Keywords: democracy, History, Philadelphia, social science

Heritage or Renewal: The Impacts of Gentrification

Matthew Menschner 2020
Keywords: gentrification, heritage, local history, Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond


Philadelphia’s Relationship to the Harlem Renaissance

Keysiah M. Middleton 2006
Keywords: African American History, Harlem Renaissance, New Negro Movement, Philadelphia

Seminar: Topics in Environmental Health


Where Does Our Water Come From?

David White 2021
Keywords: water, water cycle, water filtration, water pollution, Watershed

Seminar: Who Are Those People and Why Are They Listening to That Music


Music and Social Activism – Introducing American Music and History to Elementary Students Through Protest Songs

Dale Apple 2011
Keywords: History, Music, social activism, songs

African American History as told through African American Music

Sue Christmas 2011
Keywords: African American music, American History, Media, Music

Exposing Primary Age Students to African American Musical Genres and the History of African American Music

Jennifer Paratto Motsney 2011
Keywords: African American music, hip-hop, musical genres, rap

Stop The Violence: Music is the Message

Regina Perrulli 2011
Keywords: African American History, Music, rap, Slavery, violence