Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024

section "V"

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

Video Games
24.01.05 Manufacturer's Mist: How the Anthropocene is Filled with Dead Men's Souls

Violence

Political
13.04.02 Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System

Visual Arts (see Art)
24.01.01 Art in D.C.: Using Rock Creek Park as Our Playground
24.01.02 The Land & The People: Ecocritical Art Analysis of Industrialization
24.01.03 The Art of Understanding and Connecting through Butterflies
24.01.04 The Eye of the Beholder: Climate Change Awareness
24.01.05 Manufacturer's Mist: How the Anthropocene is Filled with Dead Men's Souls
24.01.06 Landscape Keeps Score: Empire, Waste, Deep Time, and Art
24.01.08 Art of the Mushroom
24.01.09 Traces of the Past: From Landscape to Cityscape
24.01.10 The History of Richmond through Maps
23.01.02 Using Objects and Artifacts to Understand The Crucible
23.01.03 Using art to interpret The Mary Prince- Narrative of a Slave Woman
23.01.04 The Effect of the Navajo Long Walk Through Photos
23.01.05 Colours of Humanity: Artistic representations of the "Other"
23.01.06 Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men
23.01.07 La Francophonie Diverse: French Adjective Agreement Through Art
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
23.02.04 An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings
22.01.03 Social Emotional Learning through Film
22.01.04 Cultivating a Growth Mindset through Film Studies
22.01.05 Themes in Encanto and Wadjda
22.01.06 Film as a Site for Education and Resistance
22.01.07 Teaching Writing through Films: A Visual Exploration of Identities
20.02.03 Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
17.01.01 Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
17.01.02 In Their Own Images
17.01.05 Using Navajo Contemporary Art to Teach Descriptive Writing to ELL Students
17.02.03 Curating an Identity: Exploration and Expression in the Elementary Art Room
16.02.07 Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock
14.01.01 Dramatizing Art: Tableaux Vivants
14.04.03 Articulations: Crafting Credible Discourse on Art, Aesthetics, and Design
13.01.01 Picture-Tellers: How to "Write" a Story, the Kindergarten Way
13.03.01 The Story of Me
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
11.03.02 American Ideas in Three Artist Collectives
11.05.06 The Chemistry of Weather
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
09.01.10 Movie Posters: Capturing the Essence of a Story
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
07.04.03 Context Clues: The Appropriation of Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe
07.07.06 Space Illustrated: There and Back

and History
24.02.01 Parody and Counter-Narrative in Art: Viewing Against the Grain
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
14.01.04 Anasazi Images on Navajo Land
14.01.05 Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature

and Museums
23.01.01 Curator as Detective: Looking for Missing Stories in Museums
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
14.01.03 Whose Destiny? Viewing America's Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes

and Poetry
24.03.07 Empowering Student Voice through Poetry and Multimedia
10.01.03 From the Thoughts of Another: Comprehension through the Genres of Poetry
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis
10.01.08 A Palette of Poetry
10.01.09 Lying to Tell the Truth: Archetypes, Art, and Imagery

and Politics
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known

Political Cartoons
14.01.05 Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images

Film (see Film)
22.01.02 Film and Art: Setting the Stage with Framing

Graphic Novels
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
13.01.10 Challenging Perceptions: Persepolis Beyond the American Lens
13.03.03 Memoir: Magical Moments in Young Children's Lives
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age

Spiegelman, Art

MAUS
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age