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2007


The Story of Us: An Urban Fifth Grade Class Creates a Living History Document Through Memoir and Photography

Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: analyze, data collection, History, literacy, Math, memoir, photography, social studies, Visual Art, writing

Philly Girls Grow Up Through Memoir and Fiction

Barbara McDowell Dowdall
Keywords: African American women, American Literature, growing up, memoir, women, writers

Looking Through Others’ Eyes- Literature and the Double Self in the 20th Century

Laura C. Jacklin
Keywords: American short stories, American society, double-consciousness, Literature, The Souls of Black Folk, World War I

Recurring Themes of African American Folktales

Catherine Thornton Brownlee
Keywords: African American folktales, African American literature, Afro-American, language arts, Reading, symbolism, themes

The Lesson the Piano Teaches: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and the African-American Experience It Illuminates

William S. Lewis
Keywords: African American History, August Wilson, griot, History, Literature, personal history

Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Students’ Poetic Perceptions of Contemporary Issues

Kemo Donita Logan
Keywords: African American literature, Compare and contrast, Harlem Renaissance, literacy revolution, poetry, social activism, social themes

What Matters the Most through Reading and Writing

Christine Lokey
Keywords: direct reading, inspire to act, integrating, Literature, racial justice, Reading, scaffolding, social justice, writing, writing instruction

Connecting Nineteen Eighty-Four to Today

Alison McCartney
Keywords: analyze, British literature, debate, English, George Orwell, involved citizens, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Reading, social science, World Literature

Exploring African American Culture Through Literature

Susan King
Keywords: African American culture, African American literature, autistic support, books, comprehension skills, Reading, storytelling

Jim Crow and Apartheid: Walking hand in hand to the Promised Land

Stacia D. Parker
Keywords: African American History, America, Apartheid, Harlem Renaissance, political literature, South Africa, think globally

2006


A Celebration of African American Oral Tradition in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Deborah Samuel
Keywords: African American oral traditions, The Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston

Poetry and Music of the Harlem Renaissance and Today

Alexandra Volin Avelin
Keywords: African American activists, Alain Locke, poetry, The Harlem Renaissance

Soul to Spirit to Speak to Writers: Poetry and Song

Bonnee L. Breese
Keywords: african american poetry, Black Poets, Harlem Renaissance, poetry, Women poets