Category Archives: Curriculum Units

Freedom, Justice, and Democracy in South Africa during and after Apartheid

February 1, 2018 – 12:26 pm

Lisa Modrow, Social Studies, Bailey MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags apartheid, Middle School, Nelson Mandela, oppression, South Africa | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 7: The Rise (and Fall) of Democracies around the World

Injustice: Japanese Internment and Citizens’ Rights

February 1, 2018 – 12:25 pm

Christa Rawald, Social Studies, Ranson MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags democracy, Injustice, Japanese Internment, Middle School, Minorities, Rights, WWII | Permalink | Comments Off

Islam, Media, and the Arab Spring “and their affairs shall be discussed among them” (وَأمَْرُھُمْ شُورَىٰ بیَْنھَُم)

February 1, 2018 – 12:17 pm

M. Bassam Halaweh, Arabic, Hawthorne Health Sciences

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Arab Spring, authoritarian, class struggle, compulsion, conflict, controlled democracy, Culture, democracy, democratization, displacement, elite class, ethnic groups, executive, human rights, interconnected world, Islam, judicial, legislative, liberal institutions, Media, mobilizing, national identity, parliamentary system, politics, privileged groups, prophet Mohammad, Quran, right to vote, social media, Stereotypes | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 7: The Rise (and Fall) of Democracies around the World

Reconstructing a Failed Democracy

February 1, 2018 – 12:15 pm

Arianna Bonner, Social Studies, Martin Luther King, Jr. MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Analyze, civil war, Civil War Amendments, conflict, debate, democracy, Historical Narrative, Middle School, perspective, Reconstruction | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 7: The Rise (and Fall) of Democracies around the World

South African Democracy: The Rise and Fall of Hope

February 1, 2018 – 12:12 pm

Amy Strong Pasko, International Programs Coordinator, North Learning Community

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags apartheid, constitutions, corruption, democracy, High School, Nelson Mandela, race, South Africa | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Think Before You Shoot: Creating Images with Impact in the Journalism Classroom

February 1, 2018 – 12:07 pm

Michele Lemere, English, Garinger HS

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags High School, Journalism, Media Literacy, media representation, photo manipulation, Photography, visual literacy, yearbook | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Making Cells and Seeing Organelles: A Visual and Tactile Exploration of Cellular Structure

February 1, 2018 – 12:05 pm

Kim Mayes, Science, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags ambitious science teaching, animal cell, Biology, cell art, cell membrane, cell wall, cells, cellular structure, culturally relevant science, cytoplasm, hierarchical organization, imaging, living, microscope, nucleus, organelles, plant cell, primer diagrams, ribosome, scientific representation, specialized cell, STEAM, tissue, unit of life | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Understanding Images and Their Power

February 1, 2018 – 12:03 pm

Kate Allen, Visual Art, W.A. Hough HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags 21st Century Skills, Analysis, art criticism, art history, communication, contemporary art, cross-hatching, description, Design, global themes, hatching, High School, images, interpretation, narrative, portraiture, proportion, scumbling, self-portrait, shading, symbols, value, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Square One: Establishing Visual Literacy in the Classroom

February 1, 2018 – 12:01 pm

Justin Pierce, Visual Art, W.A. Hough HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags adaptation, aesthetic, anticipatory guide, cinquain, collaboration, collage, Consumption, contemporary, Critique, Deconstruction, dialogue, differentiate, digital design, Elementary School, intertextual, observation, ownership, Photography, Photoshop, portfolio, snapchat, transformative, video podcast, visual literacy, VSCO | Permalink | Comments Off

Look at the World; Speak for the Trees

February 1, 2018 – 11:59 am

Jessica Young, Second Grade, Davidson ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags advertising, blended learning, digital literacy, Elementary School, environmentalism, Paideia, project based learning, Social Studies, socratic seminar, the Lorax, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Bringing Visual Literacy to Writing

February 1, 2018 – 11:57 am

Erin Murray, TD/Catalyst Hornets Nest & Statesville RD ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags descriptive writing, Elementary School, inference, Visual Thinking Skills | Permalink | Comments Off

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

You Must Remember This: Monumental Biographical Studies and Crafting Multimodal Autobiographies

January 31, 2018 – 6:01 pm

Lecia Shockley, Third Grade, Selwyn ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags academic conversation, Autobiography, Biography, collage, Courage, disability, Elementary School, evaluative practice, memorials, monuments, remembrance, Research, southern recollections, stories, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

The Grass Is Not Always Greener

January 31, 2018 – 5:57 pm

Emily Woods, Fourth Grade, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags 21st Century Skills, Compare, Contrast, Film, literacy, Media, Storyboard, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

A Day at the Valley

January 31, 2018 – 5:54 pm

Emily Steib, Second Grade, Hidden Valley ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Africa, Asia, cameras, country, day in the life, Elementary School, Europe, India, Mexico, personal narratives, photograph, Photography, picture, rubric, school, Spain, United States of America, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Finding the Human Story within an Image

January 31, 2018 – 5:51 pm

Deena Aglialoro, Language Arts, South Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags antisemitism, Bear Witness, bystander, close reading, CommonLit, concentration camps, Courage, Elie Wiesel, extermination camps, fear, fiction, genocide, Germany, ghettos, good and evil, hate, High School, Hitler, Holocaust, human behavior, identity, Night, Poetry, Political Cartoons, Propaganda, pyramid of hate, research paper, Rwanda, swastika, testimonials, visual literacy, written conversation, Yad Vashem | Permalink | Comments Off

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Category Archives: Curriculum Units

Freedom, Justice, and Democracy in South Africa during and after Apartheid

Injustice: Japanese Internment and Citizens’ Rights

Reconstructing a Failed Democracy

South African Democracy: The Rise and Fall of Hope

Think Before You Shoot: Creating Images with Impact in the Journalism Classroom

Making Cells and Seeing Organelles: A Visual and Tactile Exploration of Cellular Structure

Understanding Images and Their Power

Square One: Establishing Visual Literacy in the Classroom

Bringing Visual Literacy to Writing

You Must Remember This: Monumental Biographical Studies and Crafting Multimodal Autobiographies

The Grass Is Not Always Greener

A Day at the Valley

Finding the Human Story within an Image

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