Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2023

section "R"

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

Race

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

American

and Exclusion
21.02.01 Exploring Belonging and Exclusion through Ethnography
21.03.01 Examining the Inequitable Treatment of Asians in the US: A Civics Unit for Newcomer Els
19.03.05 Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
18.01.04 The American Dream,
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
06.02.06 Chinese Immigration, Exclusion and the Chinese-American Experience

and Health
20.03.07 Health and Public Policy
17.06.06 HeLa Cells, Cervical Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine

and Housing
20.03.01 It’s the Economy, Stupid: Lessons in Economics, Banking, and Personal Finance from the Financial Crisis of 2008
20.03.03 Codes of Conduct: Racist Housing and Education Policies that Impact Urban Students
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
18.01.02 A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia

and Law (See Law)

and Incarceration
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
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

and Politics (See Politics)
21.01.04 Mobilizing Change: Lessons Learned from Obama’s 2008 Campaign
20.03.04 What Have You Done For Me Lately; A Tale of Two Parties
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
12.04.01 An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
08.03.01 Road to the White House: Campaign for the Presidency
08.03.02 I'll Vote for That, but Why? The United States Constitution and Presidential Elections
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy

Civil Rights (See Civil Rights)
21.02.05 American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
20.01.01 Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
16.01.02 Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
13.03.07 A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
12.04.01 An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
12.04.06 Why do you want my children? A Glimpse into Native American Citizenship
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
06.02.01 The Language of Justice
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
06.02.05 Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism

Economics
22.03.03 The Resiliency of the African American Financial Narrative Presented through Multiple Media of Art

Racism
23.04.05 Colored: An Introduction to Environmentalism
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
12.04.02 Exchanging Letters - Changing Legacies
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism

in Rhetoric
10.02.07 Educating Tomorrow's Orators
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?

Slavery
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps

Sports
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry

Violence
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image

and Culture
22.03.05 Struggle, Defiance, and Triumph: Black Photographers and Their Magic
20.01.04 American Heritage: Unmasked, Unpacked & Uncloaked
20.02.09 No Lye, Nappy or Straight, People Still Gon’ Hate: Getting to the Root of the Issue; Colorblindness and Neutrality within Hairstyles and Hair Types
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
12.04.09 The Resiliency of the Black Family
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
11.03.06 American Musicals, American Freedom
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
07.04.01 Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia

and Education
23.02.05 Creating First-Class Experiences for Forgotten Schools: Why Not Us?

and Law
21.02.02 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens
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
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
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
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
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
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws

and Media
20.02.07 Seeing the World through Race-Colored Glasses: Guiding High-School Journalism Students to Report in a Race-Conscious Way to Create a Race-Conscious World

in Film
14.03.01 Lights, Camera, Immigration! An Examination of Global Cities through Film
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
07.01.06 The Color Purple's Three-Fold Adaptation: Examining Protagonists and Media through a Self-Reflective, Critical Lens
06.01.01 Cultural Literacy through Media: Breaking Down Stereotypes by Building Up Knowledge
06.01.02 Life Made Aware: Scripting Lives through Eyes Only

Latin America
20.02.05 Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
12.02.06 Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
10.03.11 Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community

in Literature
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
21.02.02 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens
21.02.04 A Nation of Dreamers: Examining American Immigration and Race through Esperanza Rising
21.02.08 Giving Voice to the Silenced
20.01.07 The History within Toni Morrison’s Sula
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
20.02.08 We Are Family: The Importance of Community through an Exploration of Johnathon Upper Elementary Schools
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
16.02.01 Reading for Craft through an Author Study
16.02.03 Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
16.03.06 Seeking a Home: The Wiz and the Black Arts Movement
14.02.07 Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
13.02.01 Moving Beyond "Huh?": Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
12.02.06 Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
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
12.04.02 Exchanging Letters - Changing Legacies
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
07.02.06 Crime Fiction Investigation: "Socially Correct or Not, Let Me Tell You Who Did It"
07.03.02 Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture

Social Justice (See Social Justice)
23.01.03 Using art to interpret The Mary Prince- Narrative of a Slave Woman
23.01.09 Illuminating Gem of the Ocean with Art Representing African Diaspora
23.01.10 This is America: Images and Histories of Racism and Exploitation
23.01.11 Perspectives on Race: Slavery and its Legacies in Art
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
20.02.02 Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
19.01.07 You Ain’t Gotta Write Like You Speak: Talking White, While Livin’ Brown
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.03.05 Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
19.03.09 The Different Shades of the Yellow Bus
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
18.01.04 The American Dream,
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
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
15.03.06 Looking at Desegregation through Local Narratives: A Case Study at Tulsa Central High School
15.03.09 The History and Analysis of Public Art: Using Delaware’s Desegregation History as a Ground to Learn, Interpret, and Create
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
13.04.01 The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa's Invisible City
12.04.04 Our Understanding of the Meaning of Race: A Sociological Critical Lens
12.04.06 Why do you want my children? A Glimpse into Native American Citizenship
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education

Stereotypes
19.01.07 You Ain’t Gotta Write Like You Speak: Talking White, While Livin’ Brown
12.02.05 The Truth about Lies: Recognizing Lies, Stereotypes, and Prejudice through Memoir Reading and Writing
06.01.01 Cultural Literacy through Media: Breaking Down Stereotypes by Building Up Knowledge

Reading

and Pedagogy

Interdisciplinary
07.07.05 Traveling the Solar System through Literature

Problem Solving
07.02.05 Uncloaking the Clues: Details, Daggers, and Detection
07.06.04 Word Problems in Picture Books: Literature as a Source of Math Word Problems
07.06.09 Word Problems: Looking for the Similarities in Problems to Help Categorize and Solve Them

Bibliotherapy
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

History
05.03.06 Biblioclasm: The Organized Destruction of Books

Instruction

Basic Skills
17.01.09 Kindergarten Writing: Writing as a Form of Art
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG

English as a Second Language
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
08.06.07 Feeding our Bodies, Fueling our Minds
06.03.07 From Aztecs to Aztlan: Building Cultural Bridges through Literature

Narrative
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
12.02.08 Beloved: A Case Study in Storytelling Analysis
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
08.03.06 Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature
06.01.11 The Rhetorical Nature of Narrative

Special Education
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film

through Literature
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG
11.01.05 Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
08.02.08 Finding One's Voice
07.02.02 Using a Mystery Novel to Encourage Pleasure Reading and Imaginative Thinking
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
06.03.06 Students: Take Charge of Your Reading
06.03.08 Fantasy Books: There's a Whole Other World Out There
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

through Mathematics
08.05.06 The Power of Estimation

Vocabulary
09.04.05 ¡Que Bello es el Sonido de la Poesía! Teaching Sounds and Culture Through Poetry
08.05.06 The Power of Estimation
08.06.07 Feeding our Bodies, Fueling our Minds
07.03.05 Mapping + Episodic Short Short Stories = Classroom Writing Success

Interest in
11.01.06 Reading Independently with the Bluford Series

Literature

Autobiography
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
12.02.05 The Truth about Lies: Recognizing Lies, Stereotypes, and Prejudice through Memoir Reading and Writing
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters

Biography
20.01.01 Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
20.01.02 American History Through American Lives Celebrating Our Family History Through Immigration Stories
20.01.03 “Faces in the Frame: More than a Narrative”-The Lives that Frame the True History of the United States through Primary Sources
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
16.02.03 Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
13.03.06 Will They Remember Me? Finding Our Identity by Writing Memoirs and Biographies
13.03.09 Other's Mistakes Don't Have to be Your Own
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography
11.01.10 Taking a Role in History: Reading Biography with Empathy
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
10.03.07 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

Drama
23.01.02 Using Objects and Artifacts to Understand The Crucible
15.02.03 Fate or Action: Character Agency & What the 21st Century Student Gains from The Merchant of Venice
15.02.06 Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School

Fiction
20.01.07 The History within Toni Morrison’s Sula
19.03.05 Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
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
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
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
13.02.09 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
12.02.06 Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
12.02.09 Empathy Through The Eyes of A Creature: A Journey Into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
12.02.10 Stylistic Voice and Questions of Speaking for the Voiceless in The Poisonwood Bible
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home

Children’s Literature
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG
11.01.05 Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
11.01.06 Reading Independently with the Bluford Series
08.02.08 Finding One's Voice
06.03.02 Teaching the Elements of Literature Using Stories from Infancy to Age-appropriate
06.03.06 Students: Take Charge of Your Reading
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

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
16.03.05 Easing on Down the Road: Reading Critically, Writing Fantastically
06.03.08 Fantasy Books: There's a Whole Other World Out There

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
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film
06.04.11 The Popol Vuh: A High School Literature Unit

Detective Fiction
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
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Historical Fiction
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction

Short Stories
11.01.09 Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
07.02.03 Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
07.02.04 D. I. E.

Manuscripts

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

Non-Fiction

for Children
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
06.03.04 Examining War through a Child's Perspective

Poetry (See Poetry,Reading of)
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
18.02.02 Reflections Upon Reflections: Ekphrasis as Self-Exploration in Middle School ELA
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
16.02.02 William Butler Yeats Meets an Eighth Grader from West Philadelphia
14.02.07 Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
14.02.09 Pictures, Poems, and Planets
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.04.05 Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry
11.01.09 Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
10.01.03 From the Thoughts of Another: Comprehension through the Genres of Poetry
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
09.04.04 Discovering Voice
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
09.04.08 The Sound Within: An Exploration of Prosodic Elements in Poetry
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
05.01.01 Discovering Self through Poetry
05.01.02 Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
05.01.03 Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within
05.01.06 A Curriculum Unit in Poetry for Vocational Students
05.01.07 Who’s Your Daddy? Comprehension Strategies and Poetry Basics through Poems about Fathers
05.01.10 Looking Forward: Whitman and the Creative Spirit in American Poetry
05.01.14 Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis

Sonnet
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

Visualization
23.01.03 Using art to interpret The Mary Prince- Narrative of a Slave Woman
23.01.07 La Francophonie Diverse: French Adjective Agreement Through Art
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
23.01.09 Illuminating Gem of the Ocean with Art Representing African Diaspora
23.01.10 This is America: Images and Histories of Racism and Exploitation
23.02.04 An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings
23.02.08 Journaling in Nature: Journaling to Improve Observation and Reflection
23.01.11 Perspectives on Race: Slavery and its Legacies in Art
18.03.02 The Snow Queen in Film
17.01.03 Bringing Alive the Art of the Past: Modern Tattoos and Illuminated Manuscripts
14.02.11 Visual Poetry
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
11.01.05 Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age
09.01.05 SHAZAM! Exploring Superhero Comics to Study Character Origin and Creative Writing
09.04.08 The Sound Within: An Exploration of Prosodic Elements in Poetry
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
08.01.05 To See or Not to See? A Visual Approach to Identity in Shakespeare
06.03.01 Picture This: A Journey through Fairy Tale Production

Religion

in Literature
08.01.09 Religious Elements in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Mexican
07.04.03 Context Clues: The Appropriation of Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe

Native American
06.04.08 Mythology of the Inca and Maya

Renewable Energy

and Biotechnology
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
13.05.03 A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
13.05.07 It Don't Come Easy: The Promises and Challenges of Biofuel Production
06.05.07 The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments

General
19.04.03 My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
16.04.08 The Future of Energy
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.04 Fusion: The Energy of the Future?
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
13.05.09 Nihodzaan (Mother Earth)
12.07.05 Math Facts of Natural Gas & Pollution
11.05.02 The Problems and Potential of Portable Power
11.05.09 I Got the Power! Misconceptions of Recycling Batteries
09.07.06 Unconventional Transportation
07.05.01 Petroleum: Our Best Transportation Option?
07.05.03 Environmentalists and Chemists Unite: A Chemistry Class for our Changing World

Solar
16.04.02 The Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
16.04.06 Solar and Wind and Batteries, Oh My!
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.02 Soaking Up the Sun!
13.05.06 Math Equations of Energy
12.07.02 Solar VS Fossil Fuel Generated Electricity: Can Physics Determine Which is Best For You and Your School?
09.07.02 Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water
07.05.02 Solar energy: Using Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere to Produce a Viable Fuel Source
07.05.06 The Power of the Sun
07.05.07 Solar Energy -- Architectural Alternatives for Home Building

Water
11.05.05 Survival Chemistry: Using Everyday Things to Create Energy and Drinking Water
09.07.02 Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water

Wind
19.04.05 Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
19.04.10 Harnessing the Wind Like William Kamkwamba: Building Model Windmills in a 4th Grade STEM Lab
16.04.06 Solar and Wind and Batteries, Oh My!
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
09.07.02 Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water
07.05.04 Catch the Wind

Research

Oral History
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
10.03.04 Voices of Emery Secondary: An Oral History Project

Pedagogy
06.03.10 The Big Con: Tricking the High School Student into Writing a Research Paper

Units with Research Component
20.05.04 Montessori’s Cosmic Curriculum and Biodiversity in Africa
19.02.06 Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
17.01.01 Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
16.06.05 Transitional Forms: The Evidence for Evolution by Natural Selection
15.03.04 French History in Your City: San Jose, California - the Pellier Brothers
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
15.03.10 Pittsburgh: Contending with its Steel Past
13.04.07 Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts: A Menu of Sociological Research Methods
12.04.04 Our Understanding of the Meaning of Race: A Sociological Critical Lens
12.04.07 Diverse Journeys - Americans All!
11.03.04 Exporting the Idea of America
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
10.03.04 Voices of Emery Secondary: An Oral History Project
10.03.06 Micro Biographical Essays: Students Helping Students Learn about American History
10.03.11 Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process
08.03.01 Road to the White House: Campaign for the Presidency
08.03.02 I'll Vote for That, but Why? The United States Constitution and Presidential Elections
08.03.06 Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System
08.06.01 Eat to live: the connection between food, digestion and diabetes
08.06.04 Getting an Early Start to a Healthy Life
07.01.04 Modernizing Shakespeare: Finding Contemporary Themes from Othello
07.01.05 War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations
07.03.07 Santa Fe and the World: Maps and Mapmaking of People, Places and Poverty

Rhetoric

and Pedagogy
10.02.07 Educating Tomorrow's Orators
09.04.07 Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking
09.04.09 Listen to the Sound of My Voice: Teaching Poetry to Make Language Whole
06.01.11 The Rhetorical Nature of Narrative
06.02.01 The Language of Justice
05.01.13 Poetry's Idyllic and Intriguing Patterns for Kindergarten

and Persuasion
14.04.04 Re-Tweet This: Personal Branding through Social Media is the New Rhetoric of Persuasion
14.04.05 From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
14.04.06 Elements of Rhetoric in the Language-Learning Classroom: Convince Me You are Fluent!
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
14.04.10 Eloquence and Authenticity: Who Are You and Why Should I Listen To You?
10.02.03 Responsible Citizens Speak Out
10.02.04 The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
10.02.10 Paths into Excellence: Journal-Writing as Bedrock for Rhetoric

Aristotle
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?
10.02.02 Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
10.02.03 Responsible Citizens Speak Out
10.02.04 The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals
10.02.05 Speak up! Presidential Rhetoric in the Modern Era
10.02.07 Educating Tomorrow's Orators
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech

General
14.04.11 Auditorium Building, Chicago: "The Temple of Peace."
10.02.02 Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
10.02.03 Responsible Citizens Speak Out
10.02.07 Educating Tomorrow's Orators

in Literature
15.02.08 Convincing the Masses: Rhetoric in Julius Caesar
14.04.01 Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's just Rhetoric
14.04.08 The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II
09.04.08 The Sound Within: An Exploration of Prosodic Elements in Poetry
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word

in Politics
17.03.03 Making Our Communities Visible: Poetry, Rhetoric and Social Justice
14.04.02 Eloquence and Culture Leading with Words
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
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?
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?
10.02.04 The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals
10.02.05 Speak up! Presidential Rhetoric in the Modern Era
10.02.06 Creating Authentic Student Leadership through Rhetoric
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters

Presidential
12.03.03 The Women's Movement in Presidential Rhetoric
10.02.05 Speak up! Presidential Rhetoric in the Modern Era
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?

Richmond, Virginia

Culture
17.01.02 In Their Own Images

Environment
20.04.02 Building a Heat-Resilient Community in Richmond, Virginia
12.06.06 Inquiry in the Middle School Classroom: Students as Watershed Stewards

History
18.01.02 A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
15.03.01 Richmond’s Divisive Monuments: A Look into One City’s Debate over Public Art, Memory, and History
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape

Rivera, Diego
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
17.01.01 Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
17.01.02 In Their Own Images
05.02.03 Studying the Biographies of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera