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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Painless Statistics for Teachers and Teaching


Want to be a Better Reader? Then Read!

Jessica Ramos 2013
Keywords: Book logs, English, graphing, Increased reading ability, Literature, Middle, Probability / Statistics

Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience


Germantown PA: Researching the Great Road Welcome Mat

Barbara McDowell Dowdall 2008
Keywords: 9th grade, African, Daniel Pastorious, Dutch trading company, English 1, Germantown, Irish, Italian, Philadelphia

Crossing Borders and Crossing Time: A Tableau of African Immigration and Migration in America

Stacia D. Parker 2008
Keywords: Africa, African Diaspora, cultural traditions, Culture, immigrants, journey, languages, Liberia, memoirs, migrants, migratory experiences, oral history, Senegal, Sierra Leone, social traditions, trasnformation, tribes, world history

Seminar: Philosophy, Science & Society


Socratic Philosophy for Kids

Krystle Birdsall 2018
Keywords: Analyzing arguments, Critical thinking, ELA activity, ethics, Making connections, Morality, Personal Identity, Philoslphy of science, philosophy, Questioning, social studies

Reading Philosophy in The Hate U Give

Amanda Schear 2018
Keywords: Critical thinking, ELA activity, Making connections, Personal Identity, philosophy, Questioning, social justice

Philosophy and Literature Unit Plan

Kimberly Sweeney 2018
Keywords: ELA activity, ethics, philosophy

Critical Thinkers Are World Changers

Charlette Walker 2018
Keywords: Analyzing arguments, character development, Critical thinking, ELA activity, empowerment, ethical responsibility, ethics, Morality, Personal Identity, philosophical chairs, philosophy, social justice

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


Bomba and Chicken: Afro-Latinas in the United States

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2015
Keywords: Afro latinas, Afro-latin culture, Bomba, Bomba dance, chicken

Causes of the Haitian Revolution revealed in primary sources and its challenges on a fragile structure of an imperialist nation

Kathleen Radebaugh 2015
Keywords: Creole, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialist, Politics

Seminar: Storytelling Traditions of South Asia and the Middle East


Dawning of A Sunrise

Valerie Adams 2019
Keywords: Critical thinking, Drama, ELA, fables, folktales, frame story, frame tale, Middle East, multi-intelligence, narrative, pair, Personal Identity, poetry, Reading, share, short stories, South Asia, storytelling, think, writing

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Is it Still a Brave New World?

Deborah Samuel 2008
Keywords: Beyond This Horizon, Biology, Brave New World, English, literacy, neuropsychology, technological advances

Seek and Save the Yeti Campaign

Maxine Tumaian 2008
Keywords: art critique, career, conservation quests, cross-curricular, cryptozoology, film interpretation, Middle School, scientific process, vocabulary builders, Yeti

Seminar: Teaching the Holocaust: Bearing Witness


We All Have A Story to Tell…

Nicole Flores 2014
Keywords: fiction, Holocaust, journals, nonfiction, religion, religious beliefs, writing

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

Teaching the Holocaust in Kindergarten Classrooms

Krista Spera 2014
Keywords: 20th century, discrimination, Holocaust, Holocaust education, kindergarten

Seminar: The Aesthetics of Hip Hop


Bridging the Gap: Hip-Hop and the Second Generation English Romantic Poets

John J. Grob 2008
Keywords: contemporary era, English, Hip-Hop Rap poets, inquiry-based project, poetry, Second Generation English Romantic poets

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