Unit Title	Author
2011
Teaching Reading Skills through Poetry	Melissa Freeman
Keywords: language play, poetry, reading skills
Playing with Poetry	Rachel Gelb
Keywords: early literacy, literacy, poetry, Reading
Phonemes, Come Get the Phone! Who’s Calling?	Grace Hollaender
Keywords: Charlotte's web, Math, Reading, social studies, writing
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Illustrations in Caldecott Award Books to Increase Vocabulary Acquisition	Klair McGlynn
Keywords: Caldecott, illustrations, vocabulary
From Hastinapur to Canterbury: Textualizing the Frame Narrative	Lori Mehler
Keywords: English, medieval, narrative
Oh Mother, Pleeeeze Let Me Read That Book! The United States Constitution and Banned Books	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: banned, books, constitution, History, social history
Allegory and America: Analyzing the work of Virginia Lee Burton	Kate Reber
Keywords: American History, literary devices, Virginia Lee Burton
Using Children’s Literature to Teach Symbolism and Allegory	Jessica L. Coldren
Keywords: Aesop's Fables, allegory, symbolism, The Giver
Reading for a Better World: Voices from the Holocaust in Young Adult Literature	Stacia Parker
Keywords: Holocaust, Literature, prejudice, racism, stereotypes
Film Literature of Middle Eastern Women: Explorations from Egypt, Iran, and Turkey	Bonnee Breese
Keywords: Egypt, Iran, Middle East, Technology, Turkey, United States, women, world history
Reading Persepolis: Defining and Redefining Culture, Gender and Genre	Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: gender, Iran, Middle East, Persepolis, women
Women Writers of the Modern Middle East	Elisabeth Raab Yucis
Keywords: Esther Raab, Middle East, Ottoman Palestine, women
Traveling In Time Through Words: Lyrics of Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz and the Blues	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: African American culture, blues, funk, hip-hop, Jazz, Music
2010
“A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words”: Telling Stories Through Paint, Photography and Poetry Using Technology	Dale Apple
Keywords: Harlem Renaissance, poetry, Technology
Here’s Lookin’ At You, Kid Growing Up in America Through Art and Literature	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: American History, childhood
Propaganda, Its History and Techniques, and Its Use by Proslavery and Abolitionist Movements	Lisa Kelly
Keywords: abolitionists, History, proslavery, Slavery
Settling of the West: Expansion, Emigration, and Extermination	Nancy B. Matlack
Keywords: American History, emmigration, History, indian massacre, Native American History
Fitzgerald & Hopper: Windows on the 1920s	Kate Reber
Keywords: African American History, American History, great gatsby
Romare Bearden: Commemorating the Centennial Birthday of the Man of Many Parts	Rita Sorrentino
Keywords: elementary poetry, poetry, Romare Bearden
Literature and Visual Art of the Urban Experience	Zachary F. Wright
Keywords: 19th century, 20th century writers, Emerson, Thomas COle, Thoreau