Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Educating for American Democracy
Untangling Hair Discrimination	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau	2022
Keywords: CROWN act, Gender Bias, Hair, hair discrimination, hair laws, hairstyles, Native American boarding school, queue, race bias, tignon
Seminar: Electronics from Toys to Tools: An Adventure for Future Engineers
How To: An Adventure in Writing and Designing Circuits	Tia D. Larese	2015
Keywords: breadboard, Circuit, diode, engineering, invention, language arts, LED, light bulb, Physical Science, quiz board, Technology, timeline, transistor, writing
Seminar: Environmental Humanities from the Tidal Schuylkill River
This is the Story of a River	Chelsea Trainor	2019
Keywords: environment, interdisciplinary, reading skills, self contained, writing skills
Seminar: From Slavery to Civil Rights
50 Years and Beyond:Philadelphia after the Emancipation Proclamation	Terry Anne Wildman	2013
Keywords: English, History, language arts, literacy, Pennsylvania History, social studies
Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia
Love to Tell the Story: West African Expressions Come to West Philadelphia	Bonnee Breese	2008
Keywords: African people, cross-cultural understanding, cultural and historical backgrounds, discover and explore, dismantle stigmas and stereotypes, English Language Arts, oral storytelling, Overbrook neighborhoods of West Philadelphia, storytelling, written storytelling
Using Elder Stories to Understand the Continuity of History	Meagan C. McGowan	2008
Keywords: broader historical narratives, folk lore, folk lorists, local resources, make history relevant, Reading, stories of elders
Philadelphia Stories: African Transitions from West Africa to Philadelphia as a Means to Study Oral Histories	Stephanie R. Wicks	2008
Keywords: African American History, African immigrants in Philadelphia, English, ethnography, historical research, historiography, learn content through oral history, learning history, love of history, love of learning, oral history project, story time, storytelling
Folktales: Trickster Stories Across Time – From African Ancestors to African American Rappers	Wilda Hayward	2008
Keywords: African, African American, African Diaspora, African folktales, anthropology, ESOL, folktales, hip-hop, legacy, Middle Passage, rap, trickster stories, West African storytellers
Seminar: History of Hollywood
Novel and a Movie?	Nicole Flores	2018
Keywords: Clips, Media, Novel, Pairing, Pop culture, Reading
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
The Awakening of the Black Panther: Shifting the Paradigm of Hollywood’s Portrayal of Africa	Wendi Mungai Umoren	2018
Keywords: Africa, Creative Writing, Media, Reading, Screen writing
Seminar: History of the Modern Middle East
Afghanistan in Poetry, Literature, and Nonfiction Texts	Elisabeth Raab	2010
Keywords: Afghan Star, conflict, Dexter Filkins, modern Afghanistan, The Forever War, The Kite Runner
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
Creating Life!	Nicole Flores	2017
Keywords: astronomy, Earth Science, Science, Space Science
Seminar: Lead & Health
Lead Affects Our Lives and Our Learning	Charlette Walker	2019
Keywords: activism, Health, lead, research based, writing assignments
Seminar: Learning about America and the World from McDonald’s
The Globalization of Tastebuds and Capitalism	Amanda Fiegel	2019
Keywords: capitalism, cultural convergence, fast food, globalization, imperialism, McDonalds
Taking control of our happiness	Regina Hastings	2019
Keywords: anxiety, depression, happiness, mental health, philosophy
The Struggle: Work, Poverty, & What We Can Do	Charlie McGeehan	2019
Keywords: activism, fast food, poverty, struggle