Unit Title	Author
2019
The Art of the Ad: A Critical Investigation of Persuasive Tactics	Alima McKnight
Keywords: advertising, confidence, Critical thinking, English language learners, ESOL, opinion writing, persuasive writing, Self-Regulated Learning (SRL), special education, SpEd, theme
Rich or King “Founding” Fathers or Mothers’ Mythology	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: American History, founding fathers, Humanities, king, mythology
PoetryTeaches Too!	Nicole Flores
Keywords: close reading, comprehension, comprehension skills, poetry
Identity and Ideology: Using Poetry to Explore Who You Are and What You Believe	Ellen Powell Fracassini
Keywords: Identity, ideology, poetry
Examining the Human Condition Through Paired Poems: The Universal & The Particular	Kristin R. Luebbert
Keywords: Aracelis Girmay, Claude McKay, Eve Ewing, Langston Highes, poetry, Ross GAy, vocabulary, vocabulary development
Come for It! An Introduction to Poetry and Poetics	Robert McClung
Keywords: anthology, close reading, collaborative learning, independent learning, modern poetry, poetry
Poets Imagining the City	Sally O’Brien
Keywords: imagination, Langston Hughes, Mary Oliver, poetry, writing prompt
Poetry is my Jam!: Teaching Text Analysis through Poetry and Music	Keeler Park
Keywords: analysis, creative texts, critical vocabulary, Music, poetry
Borders and Doorways: Using Poetry of Constraint to Explore Boundaries and Possibilities	Sophia Renda
Keywords: analysis, collaborative learning, poetry, writing portfolio
I Am UnBroken: Deconstructing Modern American Poetry to Promote Self-Actualization For English Language Learners	Lisa (Yuk Kuen) Yau
Keywords: Emily Dickinson, long poems, Reading, short poems, Walt Whitman, writing
This is the Story of a River	Chelsea Trainor
Keywords: environment, interdisciplinary, reading skills, self contained, writing skills
Student Personal Stories: Another Step to Unleashing Lifelong Learning	Nora Karasanyi
Keywords: Animal Farm, Canterbury Tales, critical readers, critical writers, fables, frame story, lifelong learning, Middle East, motivation, personal frame stories., South East Asia
Celebrating Cultures of the World Through Reading and Writing Folktales	Katherine Volin
Keywords: cultures, folktales, Reading, storytelling, writing
Chasing Cinderella: Following One Story Around the World	Phyllis Zimmer
Keywords: cinderella, Culture, PBL, Philadelphia, stories
Poets Imagining the City	Sally O’Brien
Keywords: imagination, Literature, O'hara, poetry, Whitman, writing prompts
Borders and Doorways: Using Poetry of Constraint to Explore Boundaries and Possibilities	Sophia Renda
Keywords: English, History, poetry, us history
I Am UnBroken: Deconstructing Modern American Poetry to Promote Self-Actualization For English Language Learners	Lisa (Yuk Kuen) Yau
Keywords: American poetry, Emily Dickinson, poetry, Walt Whitman
Critical Thinking in Elementary School English Language Arts	Karen Detlefsen, Terry-Anne Wildman, Eliezer Gottlieb, Geralyn McGinty, Kimberly Gallagher, Kireema Sprowal, Lisa Yau, Melissa Green, Peggy Savage, Stephen Esser, Allauren Forbes
Keywords: Critical thinking, ELA, elementary, English
2018
Now You See It! Using Infographics to Help Kids Access and Present Information	Alima McKnight
Keywords: Character Traits, Data visualization, Graphs, Inferencing, infographics, Report writing
One Island Two People: Visualizing and Comparing the Development Stories of Haiti and Dominican Republic	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: data analysis, Data visualization, Describing data, infographics, Research design