Unit Title	Author
2024
The Pulse of the Land: Using the Arts to Teach About War	Keeler Park
Keywords: Art, conflict, Creative Writing, Culture, emotion, History, Literary Analysis, military, Military History, poetry, primary source, secondary source, social studies, social-emotional learning, war, world history
Identity and Immigration: An Upper Elementary Literacy Unit	Emma Connolly
Keywords: Creative Writing, fiction, Fifth-Grade, literacy, podcasts, poetry, upper elementary
Boundaries, Borders, and Sliding Glass Doors: Where do we come from, and where are we going?	Emma Steinheimer
Keywords: Borders, Boundaries, children’s literature, Creative Writing, Critical Literacy, cultural identity, fiction, place-based learning, poetry, storytelling, Writing Workshop
2022
Modern and Contemporary African American Women Poets	Monica Rowley
Keywords: African American, Black Poets, context, Creative Writing, form, function, language, literary devices, poetry, Women poets, women writers, Workshop
2021
A Voice of My Own: Defining Epistemic Injustice in The House on Mango Street	Keeler Park
Keywords: book study, collaborative reading, Creative Writing, Culture, ethnicity, gender, igno-rance, immigrant experience, injustice, knowledge, lan-guage arts, literacy, philosophy, social class, social justice, society, The House on Mango Street, women empowerment, writing project
Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language	Greg Probst
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern
2018
Learning Through the Lens: How Hollywood Shapes the Way We View History	Andrea Ferentchak
Keywords: American History, Creative Writing, History activity, Media, Reading
Empathy through Small Data: Using Our Own Data to Visualize the Impact of Wicked Problems	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: Creative Writing, data analysis, Data visualization, Describing data, Hand-Drawn Visualization, Humanities, Math, Research design, Senior Project, Statistics, Visual Art
The Great Gatsby & Media Literacy	David Jennis
Keywords: "The Great Gatsby", Cinematography, Creative Writing, Drama, Entertainment industry, Media, Reading, Screen writing
Everyone’s a Critic: Asking Meaningful Research Questions through Film	Keeler Park
Keywords: Cinematography, Creative Writing, developing research questions, Entertainment industry, essay, film, film in the classroom, Media, outline, Pop culture, public speaking, Reading, Research, research project, student choice, writing
The Awakening of the Black Panther: Shifting the Paradigm of Hollywood’s Portrayal of Africa	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: Africa, Creative Writing, Media, Reading, Screen writing
2017
Mindfulness Mondays: Bite Size Strategies to Transform Your Classroom	Samuel A. Reed
Keywords: Creative Writing, Journalism, Personal Growth
Be the Hero of Your Journey	Terry Anne Wildman
Keywords: Creative Writing, History, Literature
2016
Reading Activist Playwrights, Writing Activist Plays	Anissa Weinraub
Keywords: Activist Art, black arts movement, Creative Writing, English, Theater
2013
The Art of the Poem in Poems of Art: Using Visuals and Close Readings to Aid Creative Writing	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: Art, Creative Writing, modern art, poetry