Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024

section "L"

Selecting a Unit number will take you to the Guide Entry for that Unit.

Labor

and Economy
20.03.02 UBI (Universal Basic Income): Yay! We Don’t Have to Work Anymore?
20.03.08 When downward Mobility Strikes

and Race
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA

History
22.02.01 Let’s Go Bananas! U.S. Imperialism Through the Lens of a Fruit
21.01.02 Who Built the American Economy? How Labor Unions Shaped the Early Labor Movement
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
15.03.10 Pittsburgh: Contending with its Steel Past
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
11.03.10 The Declaration of Independence: Still Inspiring Americans to Fight for Freedom!

Language Instruction

Chinese
09.03.05 Shakespeare on the Cell Phone: Texting Romance

English as a Second Language (ESL/ELL) (see English as a Second Language)
23.02.03 Homeland to Hometown: Restorative Awareness in Writing About Nature
21.01.05 Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History
09.01.01 Using Stories and Film in the English Language Learner Classroom to Teach Immigration History
09.04.05 ¡Que Bello es el Sonido de la Poesía! Teaching Sounds and Culture Through Poetry
09.04.06 The Unknown Voice of My Students
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
07.04.07 Cuéntame Una Historia, Por Favor! (Tell Me A Story, Please!)
06.03.07 From Aztecs to Aztlan: Building Cultural Bridges through Literature

and Art
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
17.01.05 Using Navajo Contemporary Art to Teach Descriptive Writing to ELL Students

and History
21.03.01 Examining the Inequitable Treatment of Asians in the US: A Civics Unit for Newcomer Els
14.01.04 Anasazi Images on Navajo Land
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry
10.03.11 Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community

and Math
08.05.06 The Power of Estimation

and Poetry
24.03.08 Tupac the Poet and Lyricist: The State of Texas vs. Emergent Bilinguals
14.02.05 The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
14.02.08 Using Poetry Songs to Teach Fluency Using Literature about Navajo Culture in an ELL Classroom
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry

and Science
09.05.09 Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
07.07.07 The Science and Technology of the Apollo Space Program

French
14.04.06 Elements of Rhetoric in the Language-Learning Classroom: Convince Me You are Fluent!
13.01.07 Picturing Paris: Sites and Sights of the City
11.04.06 La Francophonie, beyond the Hexagon
10.03.08 Voices of France: Understanding the Power of Individual Voice through Biography
05.04.07 Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans le ciel étoilé? Basic Astronomy for Middle School French Students

and Art
23.01.07 La Francophonie Diverse: French Adjective Agreement Through Art

with Science
05.04.07 Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans le ciel étoilé? Basic Astronomy for Middle School French Students

German
15.04.10 Life in the DDR through Film: German II

Native American
17.02.10 Shi - Child of the Holy People

Spanish
24.03.06 Sight, Sound, and Satire: Exploring Calaveras Literarias
23.02.02 Niños y la Naturaleza: Nature in the World Language Classroom
20.02.05 Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
17.01.02 In Their Own Images
15.04.08 Lights, Camera, Action! Reading Children’s Literature through Film in the Spanish Classroom
14.02.02 Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
11.04.04 The Scene of the Crime, Mexico City: Performing History in the Language Classroom
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?
09.01.02 Lo “real maravilloso” y el cine
07.01.08 Spanish Cultures through Film and Literature

Latin Americans

Art
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos

Culture
14.02.01 Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
07.01.08 Spanish Cultures through Film and Literature
07.04.01 Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia
07.04.03 Context Clues: The Appropriation of Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe
07.04.07 Cuéntame Una Historia, Por Favor! (Tell Me A Story, Please!)
06.04.08 Mythology of the Inca and Maya

Economics
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character

History
22.02.05 American Imperialism in Latin America: Territory Expansion, Trade, and Immigration
21.01.05 Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History
12.03.02 George Washington, Benito Juarez, and Simon Bolivar: an in-depth look into why we remember them.
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
07.04.07 Cuéntame Una Historia, Por Favor! (Tell Me A Story, Please!)
06.03.07 From Aztecs to Aztlan: Building Cultural Bridges through Literature
06.04.08 Mythology of the Inca and Maya
06.04.10 Symbols of Hierarchy: Things of Bling in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Identity
14.02.01 Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
12.02.06 Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
07.04.06 La voz y la vida: Literacy and Identity in Young Latino Immigrant Students

Immigration
24.01.03 The Art of Understanding and Connecting through Butterflies
22.01.01 The Child Migrant: Evaluating the Journey to the United States through Film and Nonfiction Text
22.02.05 American Imperialism in Latin America: Territory Expansion, Trade, and Immigration
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
15.01.05 Different Cultures in Chicago's Neighborhoods: Chinese and Mexican Communities
15.04.07 Immigration and the Narrative Voice: Analysis of Image and Sound in Film and Its Connection to the Immigrants' Stories
14.03.05 Immigration and Migration: My Family and My Community
13.04.02 Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
07.04.04 I Know You Are, but What Am I? A Latino Literature Unit
07.04.06 La voz y la vida: Literacy and Identity in Young Latino Immigrant Students

Literature
12.02.06 Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
09.01.02 Lo “real maravilloso” y el cine
07.04.04 I Know You Are, but What Am I? A Latino Literature Unit

Poetry
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos

Music
07.04.05 Latino Children's Folk Music: A Series of Thematic Writing Exercises

Politics
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?

Race
20.02.05 Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom

Theatre
24.02.07 Teaching Theater in a Minority-Majority Classroom

Law (see Criminal Justice; Supreme Court)

British
13.01.03 One Starfish at a Time: Combining Animals, Art, Literature, and Community Service

Comparative
18.01.06 Ancient Law Codes to School Discipline: Is it Justice for All?

Criminal
21.02.07 American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
19.02.02 On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
19.02.05 Who Watches the Watchmen? How Police Militarization Has Subverted the Constitution
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System

History

African American
09.02.01 Competing Paths of Struggle: African American Resistance to White Oppression, 1863-1896
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated

American
21.02.07 American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry
06.02.05 Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History

Alien and Sedition Acts
12.03.06 The First Twenty Years: Whiskey, Aliens… and Shopping!

and Education
21.03.02 The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation
18.01.06 Ancient Law Codes to School Discipline: Is it Justice for All?
18.01.07 This is America: Restorative Peace Circles and the decline of Suspensions and Expulsions
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System

Bill of Rights
20.01.04 American Heritage: Unmasked, Unpacked & Uncloaked

Constitutional Law
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
06.02.01 The Language of Justice
05.03.08 Postmodernism and the Flexibility of the Constitution

Criminal
19.02.02 On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration

Immigration
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
14.03.06 Understanding San Francisco Bay Area Immigration Through an Exploration of Laws and Images

Indian Removal Act
16.01.05 The Constitutional Crisis of Indian Removal

Jim Crow
21.02.02 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens
21.03.08 Jim Crow 2.0: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws

Juvenile
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach

Military Law
05.03.10 Precedents for the USA PATRIOT Act: Military Tribunals

Supreme Court (see Supreme Court)
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
12.03.09 Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
06.02.01 The Language of Justice
06.02.02 The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court
06.02.03 Why Do We Have to Rely on the Supreme Court? An Interactive Examination of How the Supreme Court Shapes Policy through Individual Rights and Public Opinion
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education

USA Patriot Act
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System

Native American (see Native Americans)
19.03.08 Á?chíní Bi Beehaz’áanii: Applying Navajo Fundamental Law to Preserve Cultural Heritage

Pedagogy of
19.03.03 Understanding Democracy in the Elementary Grades
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
11.03.05 Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System
07.02.09 Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question

Rule of Law
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
06.02.05 Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History

U.S. Constitution
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
19.02.05 Who Watches the Watchmen? How Police Militarization Has Subverted the Constitution
16.01.05 The Constitutional Crisis of Indian Removal
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
12.03.01 I think, therefore I do? Conscious and unconscious factors influencing our choice for President of the United States
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known
12.03.05 Could YOU be President?: Explaining and Exploring Presidential Possibility through Autobiography
12.03.07 Behind the Scenes of the Constitutional Convention
12.03.09 Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
12.03.11 What do Presidents really do?
12.04.01 An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
11.03.03 My Fellow Americans…A Trip through American History via Presidential Inaugural Addresses
11.03.05 Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment
10.02.05 Speak up! Presidential Rhetoric in the Modern Era
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process
08.03.08 Is America a Successful Democracy: A Critical Inquiry

Leadership
14.04.02 Eloquence and Culture Leading with Words
14.04.08 The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II
11.03.05 Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment
10.02.06 Creating Authentic Student Leadership through Rhetoric
09.03.06 A Tide in the Affairs of Men: Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays
08.06.11 Developing Student Leaders through Nutritional Empowerment

Lincoln, Abraham
21.01.03 Remembering the Civil War: A Primary Source Comparative Study of Rhetoric and Author Purpose
14.04.09 Rhetoric in My World: Engaging Students in Rhetorical Analysis through Political Speechwriting
14.04.10 Eloquence and Authenticity: Who Are You and Why Should I Listen To You?
12.03.05 Could YOU be President?: Explaining and Exploring Presidential Possibility through Autobiography
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
08.02.05 Lift Every Voice and Sing An Analysis of Social Change "Hope" through Voices of Hip-Hop

Literacy
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
16.02.03 Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
16.03.01 Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality
14.02.05 The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG
11.01.04 Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
11.01.06 Reading Independently with the Bluford Series
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
10.03.05 Approaching Literacy: The Lives of Walt Disney, Helen Keller, and Dr. Seuss
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
09.04.02 Change Moans and Groans to a Love of Tone: Teaching Students to Listen to Text
09.04.04 Discovering Voice
07.04.06 La voz y la vida: Literacy and Identity in Young Latino Immigrant Students
06.03.03 Reading as an Act of Creating Value: Character Education in a Public Montessori School
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film

Critical
24.02.02 Reading in the Dark: Freedom of the Mind and Body
24.02.03 Inspiration via Critical Literacy: Filling Gaps in the Canon
24.02.04 The Why and How of Reading: Literacy Skills from Primary Sources
24.02.05 Through the Labor of Literacy
24.02.08 Self-Evident and Self-Contradictory: Black Readings of the Declaration of Independence

Literature

African
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story
09.01.08 Keeping the Tradition of African Storytelling Alive

Achebe, Chinua
22.03.06 Things Fall Apart: Piecing it all Back Together Using Contemporary Black Art
07.03.02 Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture

Courtenay, Bryce
08.03.06 Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature

African American
24.02.06 Freedom Dreaming: Critical Thought Through Imagination
21.01.06 Artist in Action: Examining the Activism of James Weldon Johnson and Augusta Savage

and Shakespeare
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity

Angelou, Maya
18.01.07 This is America: Restorative Peace Circles and the decline of Suspensions and Expulsions
11.01.07 Taking Pride in Our Character

Baldwin, James
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
12.04.02 Exchanging Letters - Changing Legacies

Burroughs, JoAnn
20.02.08 We Are Family: The Importance of Community through an Exploration of Johnathon Upper Elementary Schools

Children’s
06.03.06 Students: Take Charge of Your Reading

Douglass, Frederick
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters

Du Bois, W. E. B.
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy

Dunbar, Paul
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History

Flake, Sharon
16.02.01 Reading for Craft through an Author Study

General
16.03.06 Seeking a Home: The Wiz and the Black Arts Movement
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home

Hansberry, Lorraine

A Raisin in the Sun
24.02.03 Inspiration via Critical Literacy: Filling Gaps in the Canon
24.02.07 Teaching Theater in a Minority-Majority Classroom
20.03.03 Codes of Conduct: Racist Housing and Education Policies that Impact Urban Students
07.01.09 Using Film and Literature to examine The Great black Migration: An Analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun" through poetic voices

Harlem Renaissance
24.03.04 The Harlem Renaissance in Sounds and Image
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
14.02.07 Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
05.01.02 Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
05.01.05 Rhymes and Rhythms of Black History

Hayden, Robert
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry

Hughes, Langston
21.01.09 Literary and Historical Reading with Langston Hughes
14.02.07 Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
13.02.07 Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
08.02.01 Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy

Larsen, Nella
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature

McKay, Claude
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
11.02.01 Unfettered Genius: The African American Sonnet
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets

Morrison, Toni
20.01.07 The History within Toni Morrison’s Sula
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home

Beloved
12.02.08 Beloved: A Case Study in Storytelling Analysis

Mosley, Walter

Devil in a Blue Dress
07.02.01 Using Walter Mosley Detective Novels (Devil in a Blue Dress) to Motivate Reluctant High School Readers
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Easy Rawlins
07.02.06 Crime Fiction Investigation: "Socially Correct or Not, Let Me Tell You Who Did It"

Non-Fiction
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration

Poetry
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
11.02.01 Unfettered Genius: The African American Sonnet
11.04.06 La Francophonie, beyond the Hexagon
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
08.02.01 Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
05.01.05 Rhymes and Rhythms of Black History
05.01.08 Crime and Poetry: Examining Crimes Against Humanity Through the Poetry of the Oppressed, Specifically Poetry from the African American Experience Through the Jim Crow Era, and The Holocaust

Reed, Ishmael
11.04.01 Performing Resilience: The Study of Culture and the African Diaspora through Literature and Dance

Ringgold, Faith
20.02.03 Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work

Smith, Ronald
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film

Taylor, Mildred
21.02.02 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens

Walker, Alice
24.02.03 Inspiration via Critical Literacy: Filling Gaps in the Canon

The Color Purple
07.01.06 The Color Purple's Three-Fold Adaptation: Examining Protagonists and Media through a Self-Reflective, Critical Lens

Wilson, August
23.01.09 Illuminating Gem of the Ocean with Art Representing African Diaspora

X, Malcolm
12.01.02 Splitting Hairs: Comparing Themes in Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

American
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Forge
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
13.01.06 Picturing a Different America: "Reading" Images, Reading Strategies, and Historical Contradiction — Without "Frontloading"?
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography

Autobiography
23.01.03 Using art to interpret The Mary Prince- Narrative of a Slave Woman
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills

Baum, L. Frank
16.03.01 Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality
16.03.05 Easing on Down the Road: Reading Critically, Writing Fantastically

Biography
13.03.07 A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
10.03.06 Micro Biographical Essays: Students Helping Students Learn about American History

Bradbury, Ray
18.03.06 Fahrenheit 451 in 2018: Can film bring Ray Bradbury’s classic into the modern age?
13.02.07 Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational
06.02.07 Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets

Chandler, Raymond
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Collins, Suzanne
15.01.06 Dystopian Societies in Adolescent Literature: Can Compliance and Freedom Coexist Peacefully In A Dark, Dystopian World?
12.02.04 Hungry for Knowledge: Using The Hunger Games to teach American Principles of Citizenship

Conrad, Joseph
13.02.01 Moving Beyond "Huh?": Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
13.02.02 Pathways to Making Meaning: Inroads to Interpretation of The Nature of Evil in Heart of Darkness

Cummings, E. E.
17.01.07 Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels

Dick, Philip K.
07.01.07 Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic

Dickinson, Emily
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America

Drama
23.01.02 Using Objects and Artifacts to Understand The Crucible
05.03.13 Arthur Miller's History Lesson: The Crucible as a Link from the Past through McCarthyism to Present-Day Terrorism

Dylan, Bob
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
12.01.02 Splitting Hairs: Comparing Themes in Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

The Great Gatsby
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
10.01.08 A Palette of Poetry

Frost, Robert
11.02.02 Lyric Poetry: The Sonnet

Guthrie, Woody
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis

Hinton, S. E.

The Outsiders
13.02.10 Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again

Historical Fiction
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
13.01.06 Picturing a Different America: "Reading" Images, Reading Strategies, and Historical Contradiction — Without "Frontloading"?
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction

Hosseini, Khaled

The Kite Runner
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art

Kipling, Rudyard
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?

Krakauer, Jon

Into the Wild
13.02.09 Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations

Lazarus, Emma
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole

McCloud, Scott

MARCH
17.01.10 Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy

Melville, Herman

Moby Dick
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis

Miller, Arthur
23.01.02 Using Objects and Artifacts to Understand The Crucible
05.03.13 Arthur Miller's History Lesson: The Crucible as a Link from the Past through McCarthyism to Present-Day Terrorism

New Orleans
11.04.06 La Francophonie, beyond the Hexagon
11.04.11 'Imaginal' Performances in Memory

Plath, Sylvia
18.03.11 Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America
10.03.09 Who is Sylvia Plath?–An Inquiry-Based Biography Primer

Poe, Edgar Allen
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock

Poetry (see Poetry)
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
17.03.06 Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America
14.01.11 Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
05.01.10 Looking Forward: Whitman and the Creative Spirit in American Poetry
05.03.05 Citizen Voices in Peace and War: A Portal into Ap English Lit

Salinger, J. D.
18.03.11 Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
13.02.07 Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational

Slave Narratives
23.01.03 Using art to interpret The Mary Prince- Narrative of a Slave Woman

Stowe, Harriett Beecher
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative

Transcendentalists
23.02.01 Why Nature? Noticing and Writing in the Wild

Vonnegut, Kurt
09.01.09 The Global Bildungsroman: A Film Study of Individual Identity and Integration into Society

Whitman, Walt
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
05.01.10 Looking Forward: Whitman and the Creative Spirit in American Poetry

Williams, Tennessee
16.02.06 Creating Connections to Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

Williams, William Carlos
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets

Yeats, William Butler
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets

Ancient

Greek
17.01.04 From Panel to Pen: Using Greek Mythology to Create Graphic Stories to Enhance the Writing Process for Young Learners
14.04.01 Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's just Rhetoric
13.01.04 Seeing Oedipus Rex: Using the Chorus to Understand the Tragedy
07.01.01 The Odyssey: Seeing My Journey through Film

Sumerians
24.03.03 First Poets

and Art
18.02.07 The Words Inside Me: Learning to Express Myself through Words
13.01.03 One Starfish at a Time: Combining Animals, Art, Literature, and Community Service

and Identity (see Identity)
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
17.02.07 Given, Chosen, and/or Imposed: My Gender, Myself
17.02.08 American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading
17.02.09 Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
17.02.12 Keeping it Real: Non-Fiction and Identity Formation in Teens

and Information
15.01.01 Wandering Through the Bad Times: Children Making Their Way Through the Great Depression
15.01.02 Helping Students
15.01.04 Defining Culture through the Lens of Literature and Text in Kindergarten
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image

Autobiography
19.01.05 Becoming Butterflies: A Transformative Writing Unit
19.01.11 Right Our World as Writers Who Are Readers: Acts of Resistance in Personal Memoirs and Public Arguments
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
17.02.09 Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
13.03.01 The Story of Me
13.03.02 Character Traits in Biography
13.03.03 Memoir: Magical Moments in Young Children's Lives
13.03.06 Will They Remember Me? Finding Our Identity by Writing Memoirs and Biographies
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
12.02.07 Reading, Writing, and Recidivism: Healing to Learn through Memoir and Vignette for Adjudicated and/or Traumatized Youth
12.03.05 Could YOU be President?: Explaining and Exploring Presidential Possibility through Autobiography
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters

Bibliotherapy
17.02.06 Identity in Transition: Narrative Repair for Changing Times
11.01.02 Are You Talkin' to Me? A Bibliotherapeutic Realization of Intelligence and Self-efficacy in Traumatized Adolescents
06.03.05 Hey Wait! I Think I've Read about Something Like That! Using Bibliotherapy to Help Teenagers Cope with Issues in Their Lives

Biography
21.02.04 A Nation of Dreamers: Examining American Immigration and Race through Esperanza Rising
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
19.01.05 Becoming Butterflies: A Transformative Writing Unit
16.02.03 Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
13.03.02 Character Traits in Biography
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
13.03.06 Will They Remember Me? Finding Our Identity by Writing Memoirs and Biographies
13.03.07 A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography
13.03.09 Other's Mistakes Don't Have to be Your Own
13.03.10 The Significance of My Great-Grandparent
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
10.03.02 I Have a Story to Tell: Learning through Peer Biographical Inquiry
10.03.03 Discovering the Entrepreneur
10.03.06 Micro Biographical Essays: Students Helping Students Learn about American History
10.03.07 Biography through the Use of Document-Based Questions
10.03.08 Voices of France: Understanding the Power of Individual Voice through Biography
10.03.09 Who is Sylvia Plath?–An Inquiry-Based Biography Primer
10.03.10 Barack Obama: A Nonfiction Approach to Reading in the "Reel" World through Documentary, Political Images, and Speech
10.03.11 Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age

British
05.03.06 Biblioclasm: The Organized Destruction of Books

Adaptation
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
07.01.02 Hamlet and Hollywood: Using Film Adaptation to Analyze Ophelia and Gertrude
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender
07.01.04 Modernizing Shakespeare: Finding Contemporary Themes from Othello

Blake, William
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
17.01.07 Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels
14.02.10 Don't Fear the Symmetry: The Poetry of William Blake

Chaucer
17.01.07 Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels

Dahl, Roald
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Sherlock Holmes
07.02.03 Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
07.02.04 D. I. E.

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies
14.04.08 The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II

Lawrence, T. E.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
16.03.08 Unraveling the Dream World Stereotype of the Arab People

Milne, A. A.
16.02.04 Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh

Orwell, George

1984
21.03.11 Orwell’s Dystopian Inequality: Fact or Fiction?

Sewell, Anna

Black Beauty
13.01.03 One Starfish at a Time: Combining Animals, Art, Literature, and Community Service

Shakespeare, William (see Shakespeare, William)

Shelley, Mary
12.02.09 Empathy Through The Eyes of A Creature: A Journey Into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Spenser, Edmund
08.01.07 Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Wells, H.G.
07.01.05 War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations

Children’s
24.03.02 Captain Underpants, Poetry Outside the Box
16.02.04 Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh
11.01.06 Reading Independently with the Bluford Series
10.03.05 Approaching Literacy: The Lives of Walt Disney, Helen Keller, and Dr. Seuss
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
07.07.05 Traveling the Solar System through Literature
06.03.02 Teaching the Elements of Literature Using Stories from Infancy to Age-appropriate
06.03.03 Reading as an Act of Creating Value: Character Education in a Public Montessori School
06.03.05 Hey Wait! I Think I've Read about Something Like That! Using Bibliotherapy to Help Teenagers Cope with Issues in Their Lives

Biographies
19.01.09 Personal Essays and Storytelling: Trevor Noah, Nelson Mandela, and Nadine Gordimer
13.01.05 Inspiring American Women: Painting Them into the Picture
13.03.06 Will They Remember Me? Finding Our Identity by Writing Memoirs and Biographies
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy

Fairy Tales
18.03.02 The Snow Queen in Film
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story
06.03.01 Picture This: A Journey through Fairy Tale Production

Fantasy
16.03.01 Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality
16.03.02 Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
16.03.03 Stick to Your Story: Fleshing out Existing Narrative Structures
16.03.04 Getting Graphic about Writing
16.03.05 Easing on Down the Road: Reading Critically, Writing Fantastically
06.03.08 Fantasy Books: There's a Whole Other World Out There
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film

Fiction
19.01.08 Writing through Reading
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
12.02.01 Non-Violent Fictional Characters as a Means to Character-Building: Ferdinand the Flower-Friendly Bull and Chrysanthemum the Brave Blooming Mouse
11.01.07 Taking Pride in Our Character
06.03.06 Students: Take Charge of Your Reading

Folktales
16.03.02 Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
06.03.09 Using African and African-American Folktales in a Genre Study
06.03.10 The Big Con: Tricking the High School Student into Writing a Research Paper

Multicultural
20.02.04 Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom

Mythology
06.03.07 From Aztecs to Aztlan: Building Cultural Bridges through Literature

Non-Fiction
19.01.06 The Voice in You- A Form of Expression through Writing
06.03.04 Examining War through a Child's Perspective

Picture Books
21.01.01 Rosa Parks: A Civil Rights Hero
20.02.03 Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work
20.02.04 Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom
19.01.02 Pen to Paper with Alexander: The Writing Process for No Good, Very Bad Days
16.02.04 Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh
13.01.01 Picture-Tellers: How to "Write" a Story, the Kindergarten Way
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
13.01.05 Inspiring American Women: Painting Them into the Picture
13.02.05 Real American: Making Literature a Means for Displacing Native American Stereotypes
13.03.01 The Story of Me
11.01.01 The Other Side: Experiencing Cultures through the Eyes of My Students
11.01.02 Are You Talkin' to Me? A Bibliotherapeutic Realization of Intelligence and Self-efficacy in Traumatized Adolescents
11.01.04 Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
11.05.06 The Chemistry of Weather
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis
10.03.05 Approaching Literacy: The Lives of Walt Disney, Helen Keller, and Dr. Seuss
07.06.04 Word Problems in Picture Books: Literature as a Source of Math Word Problems
06.03.04 Examining War through a Child's Perspective
06.03.09 Using African and African-American Folktales in a Genre Study
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film
06.03.12 Using Traditional Literature to Address Standards

Chinese
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story

Comic Books
21.04.01 Our Sun: The Myths, The Facts, and Superman
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
17.01.04 From Panel to Pen: Using Greek Mythology to Create Graphic Stories to Enhance the Writing Process for Young Learners
17.01.06 Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Classroom through Art and Comics
17.01.10 Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy
16.03.03 Stick to Your Story: Fleshing out Existing Narrative Structures
16.03.04 Getting Graphic about Writing
09.01.05 SHAZAM! Exploring Superhero Comics to Study Character Origin and Creative Writing

Comparative
15.01.04 Defining Culture through the Lens of Literature and Text in Kindergarten
15.04.09 The Authenticity of Native American Indian Character and Culture in Book and Film
12.01.02 Splitting Hairs: Comparing Themes in Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts
12.01.05 Teenage Dream: Consuming Subtext
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story
09.01.07 A Study of Oral Tradition: Storytelling in Ireland, West Africa and Japan
09.01.09 The Global Bildungsroman: A Film Study of Individual Identity and Integration into Society

Disability in
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
18.03.10 Wonderstruck: Disability Awareness Through Visual Storytelling

Drama (see Drama; Theatre)

Epic
09.01.07 A Study of Oral Tradition: Storytelling in Ireland, West Africa and Japan
07.01.01 The Odyssey: Seeing My Journey through Film

Epigraphs
13.02.09 Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations

European

Anderson, Hans Christian
18.03.02 The Snow Queen in Film

Fiction
21.01.10 From Handmaids to Riot Grrrls, using Fiction to Understand Social Movements
21.02.08 Giving Voice to the Silenced
20.01.07 The History within Toni Morrison’s Sula
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
18.03.06 Fahrenheit 451 in 2018: Can film bring Ray Bradbury’s classic into the modern age?
18.03.11 Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
17.02.01 Identity of Persons with Disabilities: Looking at People and Characters in Novels and Media
16.02.01 Reading for Craft through an Author Study
14.04.08 The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II
13.02.09 Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations
12.02.03 Fact or Fiction: Analyzing why the Author includes Truth in Fiction and the Influence and Effect on the Audience
12.04.02 Exchanging Letters - Changing Legacies
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
08.03.06 Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature
07.01.06 The Color Purple's Three-Fold Adaptation: Examining Protagonists and Media through a Self-Reflective, Critical Lens
07.03.02 Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture
06.02.07 Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction

Apocalyptic
18.03.08 Understanding the Apocalyptic Society: The Walking Dead from Comics to Television

Crime/Detective
07.02.01 Using Walter Mosley Detective Novels (Devil in a Blue Dress) to Motivate Reluctant High School Readers
07.02.02 Using a Mystery Novel to Encourage Pleasure Reading and Imaginative Thinking
07.02.03 Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
07.02.04 D. I. E.
07.02.05 Uncloaking the Clues: Details, Daggers, and Detection
07.02.06 Crime Fiction Investigation: "Socially Correct or Not, Let Me Tell You Who Did It"
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction
07.02.08 More Than Just Whodunit - Using a Mystery Story to Motivate Tenth-Grade Students to Read
07.02.09 Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question

Dystopic
21.03.11 Orwell’s Dystopian Inequality: Fact or Fiction?
15.01.06 Dystopian Societies in Adolescent Literature: Can Compliance and Freedom Coexist Peacefully In A Dark, Dystopian World?
12.02.04 Hungry for Knowledge: Using The Hunger Games to teach American Principles of Citizenship

Fantasy
16.03.01 Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality
16.03.02 Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
16.03.03 Stick to Your Story: Fleshing out Existing Narrative Structures
16.03.04 Getting Graphic about Writing
16.03.05 Easing on Down the Road: Reading Critically, Writing Fantastically
16.03.07 Dreaming on Imaginary Stages and Writing Imaginative Scripts: The Magical "If" Fulfilled, in "Hamilton"
06.03.08 Fantasy Books: There's a Whole Other World Out There
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film

Historical Fiction
15.01.01 Wandering Through the Bad Times: Children Making Their Way Through the Great Depression
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
13.01.06 Picturing a Different America: "Reading" Images, Reading Strategies, and Historical Contradiction — Without "Frontloading"?
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction

Science Fiction (see Science Fiction)
22.04.01 To Infinity and Beyond: using non-fiction text and study to promote science-fiction writing
22.04.03 Using Out of This World Knowledge to Build Literacy Skills! Space Writer on Board!
12.02.03 Fact or Fiction: Analyzing why the Author includes Truth in Fiction and the Influence and Effect on the Audience
07.01.05 War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations
07.01.07 Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic

Short Stories
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock

Young Adult
22.01.01 The Child Migrant: Evaluating the Journey to the United States through Film and Nonfiction Text
21.02.02 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens
20.02.08 We Are Family: The Importance of Community through an Exploration of Johnathon Upper Elementary Schools
15.01.06 Dystopian Societies in Adolescent Literature: Can Compliance and Freedom Coexist Peacefully In A Dark, Dystopian World?
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
13.01.06 Picturing a Different America: "Reading" Images, Reading Strategies, and Historical Contradiction — Without "Frontloading"?
13.02.10 Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
12.02.04 Hungry for Knowledge: Using The Hunger Games to teach American Principles of Citizenship
12.02.06 Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
08.02.07 Getting Into Character: Finding Voice in Realistic Fiction

Film Adaptation
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
18.03.02 The Snow Queen in Film
18.03.04 Stories Told through Literature, Film and How It Applies to Our Society
18.03.05 Native American Literature Adaptation: From Smoke Signals to Reading Comprehension
18.03.06 Fahrenheit 451 in 2018: Can film bring Ray Bradbury’s classic into the modern age?
18.03.07 Our White Hats: A Study of Heroes
18.03.08 Understanding the Apocalyptic Society: The Walking Dead from Comics to Television
18.03.10 Wonderstruck: Disability Awareness Through Visual Storytelling
18.03.11 Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
15.04.09 The Authenticity of Native American Indian Character and Culture in Book and Film
07.01.01 The Odyssey: Seeing My Journey through Film
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender
07.01.05 War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations
07.01.06 The Color Purple's Three-Fold Adaptation: Examining Protagonists and Media through a Self-Reflective, Critical Lens
07.01.07 Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic
07.01.08 Spanish Cultures through Film and Literature
07.01.09 Using Film and Literature to examine The Great black Migration: An Analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun" through poetic voices
07.02.04 D. I. E.
06.02.07 Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction

French
10.03.08 Voices of France: Understanding the Power of Individual Voice through Biography

Gender (see Gender)
21.01.10 From Handmaids to Riot Grrrls, using Fiction to Understand Social Movements
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
17.02.08 American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading
14.04.01 Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's just Rhetoric
08.01.01 Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.07 Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Graphic Novels
22.02.05 American Imperialism in Latin America: Territory Expansion, Trade, and Immigration
21.02.03 Family of Empathy
18.03.10 Wonderstruck: Disability Awareness Through Visual Storytelling
18.05.08 Exploring CRISPR Gene Drives for Schizophrenia and Superpowers
17.01.04 From Panel to Pen: Using Greek Mythology to Create Graphic Stories to Enhance the Writing Process for Young Learners
17.01.06 Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Classroom through Art and Comics
17.01.07 Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels
17.01.10 Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy
16.03.03 Stick to Your Story: Fleshing out Existing Narrative Structures
16.03.04 Getting Graphic about Writing
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
13.01.10 Challenging Perceptions: Persepolis Beyond the American Lens
12.03.05 Could YOU be President?: Explaining and Exploring Presidential Possibility through Autobiography
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age

Historical
13.01.06 Picturing a Different America: "Reading" Images, Reading Strategies, and Historical Contradiction — Without "Frontloading"?
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age
09.03.06 A Tide in the Affairs of Men: Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays

Interpretation
13.02.01 Moving Beyond "Huh?": Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
13.02.02 Pathways to Making Meaning: Inroads to Interpretation of The Nature of Evil in Heart of Darkness
13.02.03 Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.02.07 Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational
13.02.09 Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations

Irish

Yeats, William Butler
16.02.02 William Butler Yeats Meets an Eighth Grader from West Philadelphia

Latin American (see Latin Americans)
22.01.01 The Child Migrant: Evaluating the Journey to the United States through Film and Nonfiction Text
20.02.05 Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
09.01.02 Lo “real maravilloso” y el cine
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
07.01.08 Spanish Cultures through Film and Literature
07.04.04 I Know You Are, but What Am I? A Latino Literature Unit

Life-Writing
22.02.06 Immigration narratives: Hidden Links between U.S. empire and Filipino immigration to the U.S.
19.01.09 Personal Essays and Storytelling: Trevor Noah, Nelson Mandela, and Nadine Gordimer
19.01.11 Right Our World as Writers Who Are Readers: Acts of Resistance in Personal Memoirs and Public Arguments
13.03.01 The Story of Me
13.03.02 Character Traits in Biography
13.04.04 Travel Stories: Mapping the Vision, Walking the Journey

Identity (see Identity)
17.02.04 Finding Me, Knowing You: Exploring and Expressing Identity through Language Arts
17.02.06 Identity in Transition: Narrative Repair for Changing Times
17.02.09 Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
16.02.09 Who Am I?: Culturally Relevant Text and American Identity
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
08.02.06 In Their Shoes: Finding Voice through Personal Narrative

Medieval Europe
17.01.03 Bringing Alive the Art of the Past: Modern Tattoos and Illuminated Manuscripts

Middle East
16.03.08 Unraveling the Dream World Stereotype of the Arab People
13.01.10 Challenging Perceptions: Persepolis Beyond the American Lens
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story

Native American (see Native Americans)
23.02.06 Self-Identity through Nature and Magic
23.02.07 Through the Eyes of a Navajo: Nature Writing
18.03.04 Stories Told through Literature, Film and How It Applies to Our Society
18.03.05 Native American Literature Adaptation: From Smoke Signals to Reading Comprehension
17.01.05 Using Navajo Contemporary Art to Teach Descriptive Writing to ELL Students
17.02.02 Identity of Past and Present Diné
17.05.04 Math World Problems and the Diné Hooghan
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
16.01.03 First and Second Wave Native American Literature
16.01.10 Code-Switching: From Indian Boarding Schools to Urban Classrooms
16.03.09 Journey to the Sun: Reclaiming Imagination and Self-Esteem through Culture and History
15.04.09 The Authenticity of Native American Indian Character and Culture in Book and Film
14.02.08 Using Poetry Songs to Teach Fluency Using Literature about Navajo Culture in an ELL Classroom
14.04.02 Eloquence and Culture Leading with Words
13.02.03 Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture
13.02.05 Real American: Making Literature a Means for Displacing Native American Stereotypes
13.03.10 The Significance of My Great-Grandparent
07.02.08 More Than Just Whodunit - Using a Mystery Story to Motivate Tenth-Grade Students to Read
06.04.01 Let Our Things Speak True: Native American Writers Journey Back
06.04.08 Mythology of the Inca and Maya
06.04.11 The Popol Vuh: A High School Literature Unit

Nature Writing
23.02.01 Why Nature? Noticing and Writing in the Wild
23.02.02 Niños y la Naturaleza: Nature in the World Language Classroom
23.02.03 Homeland to Hometown: Restorative Awareness in Writing About Nature
23.02.04 An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings
23.02.05 Creating First-Class Experiences for Forgotten Schools: Why Not Us?
23.02.06 Self-Identity through Nature and Magic
23.02.07 Through the Eyes of a Navajo: Nature Writing
23.02.08 Journaling in Nature: Journaling to Improve Observation and Reflection

Non-Fiction
19.01.01 The Death of the Five Paragraph Essay: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay in Middle School
19.01.09 Personal Essays and Storytelling: Trevor Noah, Nelson Mandela, and Nadine Gordimer
17.02.12 Keeping it Real: Non-Fiction and Identity Formation in Teens
12.01.02 Splitting Hairs: Comparing Themes in Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

Poetry (see Poetry)

Sonnets (see Poetry->Sonnets)
11.02.01 Unfettered Genius: The African American Sonnet
11.02.02 Lyric Poetry: The Sonnet
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry
11.02.05 From Inquiry to Interpretation: A Passage through the Sonnet
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets
11.02.07 Sounds So Sweet
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
11.02.09 The Concealed Story
10.01.10 Examining Poems about Love and Loss
08.01.10 Detecting Shakespeare's Sonnets
05.01.11 Studying the Sonnet: An Introduction to the Importance of Form in Poetry

Prosody
11.02.07 Sounds So Sweet
09.04.10 The Sound of Poetry

Race (see Race)

Religion
08.01.09 Religious Elements in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Spanish
13.04.05 Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry
07.01.08 Spanish Cultures through Film and Literature

Storytelling

Character Analysis
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
12.02.09 Empathy Through The Eyes of A Creature: A Journey Into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
11.01.03 You'll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature
11.01.05 Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
11.01.06 Reading Independently with the Bluford Series
11.01.08 An Unforgettable Snapshot of Reading Character in The Help and Romeo and Juliet
11.01.09 Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
11.01.10 Taking a Role in History: Reading Biography with Empathy

General
22.03.01 Reclaiming the Lost Art of Storytelling Using Textile
22.03.06 Things Fall Apart: Piecing it all Back Together Using Contemporary Black Art
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock
15.04.02 The Visual Art of Writing
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
12.02.03 Fact or Fiction: Analyzing why the Author includes Truth in Fiction and the Influence and Effect on the Audience
12.02.08 Beloved: A Case Study in Storytelling Analysis
12.02.10 Stylistic Voice and Questions of Speaking for the Voiceless in The Poisonwood Bible

Graphic
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
18.03.10 Wonderstruck: Disability Awareness Through Visual Storytelling
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant
09.01.10 Movie Posters: Capturing the Essence of a Story

Heroic Tradition
18.03.07 Our White Hats: A Study of Heroes
07.01.01 The Odyssey: Seeing My Journey through Film

Oral Tradition
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
16.03.09 Journey to the Sun: Reclaiming Imagination and Self-Esteem through Culture and History
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
09.01.07 A Study of Oral Tradition: Storytelling in Ireland, West Africa and Japan
09.01.08 Keeping the Tradition of African Storytelling Alive
06.01.07 Oral Tradition and Memory in African Film

in Poetry
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant

Subtext
12.01.05 Teenage Dream: Consuming Subtext

Suspense
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock

Zombies
18.03.08 Understanding the Apocalyptic Society: The Walking Dead from Comics to Television

Locke, John
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
05.03.03 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Using Enlightenment Philosophy to Teach Civil Rights and Civil Liberties