Unit Title	Author
2015
(re)viewing bodies: The Walking Dead and Social Constructions in a Post-Apocalyptic Society	Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: “The Comet”, African American History, language arts, Literature, Reading, Social Construction, The Walking Dead, W.E.B. Du Bois, writing
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, Easy Rawlins, fantasy, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley
“Mystery and Detective Literature Activities” “That’s Elementary, My Dear Watson”	Karen J. Burrell
Keywords: literacy, literature activities, literature genres, problem solving
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
You Lookin’ For Me?	Glenza Lowman
Keywords: Black history, Black History month, writing
An Alien in the Cotton Fields: 47 by Walter Mosley	Joan Taylor
Keywords: cotton fields, Literature, Slavery, social realism, Walter Mosley
The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: American empire, American History, Memorial Day, vietnam war
Bomba and Chicken: Afro-Latinas in the United States	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
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
Keywords: Creole, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialist, Politics
2014
Using Lessons Learned Through a Study of the Holocaust to Teach Children to Become Upstanders	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander
Bearing Witness: Understanding Holocaust Testimony Within Urban High School Students’ Lives	Lynn Gourinski Fahr
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander
Students are Survivors Too: Bearing Witness to the Stories of Our Lives Through Holocaust Survivor Testimony	Eilis Hood
Keywords: European history, Holocaust, witness testimony, writing
Consider, is this a Man? Retaining Humanity in the Face of Dehumanizing Narratives	Benjamin Hover
Keywords: bearing witness, Common Core Standards, Concentration Camps, Death Fugue, Holocaust Literature, Holocaust Music, Literature, Middle Years Literacy, Resistance to Nazis, survivor testimony
One Story, Innumerable Losses: Themes in Genocide	Brynn Allison McGinn
Keywords: close reading, genocide, History, Holocaust, Literature, Rwanda, witness testimonies, writing
In their Shoes: Teaching the Holocaust through the Journey of a Chain of Witnesses, Survivors, and Rescuers	Stacia D. Parker
Keywords: advocacy, bearing witness, History, rescuers, survivors, testimony, world history
I, Too, Bear Witness: An Analysis of Dehumanization through Testimonies of the Holocaust	Margery Willis
Keywords: active listening, Auschwitz, bearing witness, close reading, dehumanization, memoirs, survivor testimony, The Holocaust, USC Shoah Foundation, video testimony
Children of the Earth: Native American Identity, Sacred Places and Ties to the Landscape	Erin Bloom
Keywords: anthropology, landscape, Native American issues, sacred places
The Spirits Still Among Us: Native American Poets and the Voices of History in the Present Tense	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: History, Identity, Native American, poetry, voice