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2023 Vol 2: Race, History, Change, and Social Activism: Baseball's Impact on America

The Kansas City Monarchs Impact on Baseball and America While at the Helm of Global Social Change

Lusette Humphrey, 7th Grade, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School

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Synopsis: This unit is a focus on the importance of “the power of influence” one has for social change and impact in their respective sports and communities. The power to use influence for social change is big. This is seen across many sports arenas where athletes use their platform to bring social change that is needed in some or all parts of the world. There are several athletes such as Colin Kapernick, Lebron James, Naomi Osaika can be seen using their level of influence to bring change to their respective causes. In the past we have athletes like Jacki Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Rube Foster as lead change agents of their time.

2022 Vol 4: What is Identity?

 How Has COVID Affected Me? 

Amy Stonehouse, English as a Second Language, North Mecklenburg High School

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Synopsis: In this curriculum unit, I will provide students with the opportunity to reflect on how COVID has changed them because it is clear in the work that they complete and the behaviors in class. Over the past two years, we have gone from in-person, normal school days, to virtual learning, to hybrid learning, and back to in-person, albeit far from normal. We would be naive to think that this drastic shift in learning has not changed our students and how they see themselves. I’ve learned a great deal about myself through the process. I have learned that virtual teaching is not one of my talents. I’m willing to be that my students have discovered similar things about themselves. 

My unit will focus on self-reflection and discovery, from who my students were before the pandemic and how they have changed. I plan on incorporating a personality test to help students discover characteristics about themselves that they may not have thought about before COVID. I will also incorporate journaling and time of reflection throughout the unit. 

2020 Curriculum Units Vol 1: African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

This is Me

Rhonda Doe, Kindergarten, Barringer Academic Center

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2017 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Memorials, Memories, and American Identity

Holidays, Memorials, and Me

Rhonda Doe, Kindergarten, Barringer Academic Center

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 6: The Art of Fiction: Close Analysis, Style and the Novel

How Can What We Learned Today, Change the World Tomorrow?

Kayla D’Allura, Literacy, Collinswood Language Academy

Final Unit (PDF)  Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections of the Levine Museum of the New South

How Communities Change… A Look Into Our Local Community and the City in Which We Live

Nikki Guevara, First Grade, Bain Elementary School

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