Tag Archives: identity

Art & Identity: Mapping a School Community

February 1, 2018 – 12:57 pm

Carla Aaron-Lopez, Visual Art, Whitewater MS

Tags Angelica Dass, Art, Brandon Stanton, community, contemporary art, culturally sustaining pedagogy, Dawoud Bey, Humans of New York, identity, Middle School, Photography | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 8: From Self to Students: Canvassing Art to Explore Identity

Who Am I, and Who Do I Hope to Become: Identity through an English Classroom

February 1, 2018 – 12:54 pm

Andy Wertz, English/Film, Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags arts infusion, Characterization, engagement, identity, intrinsic motivation, self-concept, self-discovery, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 8: From Self to Students: Canvassing Art to Explore Identity

Identifying with Earth

February 1, 2018 – 12:52 pm

Amethyst Klein, STEAM, University Park Creative Arts School

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags cave paintings, Earth materials, Earth Science, emotional development, erosion, identity, rocks, soil, soil painting, weathering | 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

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

Why Build a Memorial?

January 31, 2018 – 4:42 pm

Beth Owens, Visual Art, Reedy Creek ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags armature, Charlotte, Design, Elementary School, form, identity, Kennedy Center, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial, Monument, North Carolina, Richard Hunt, Rocky Mount, romare bearden, sculpture, Spiral Odyssey, Washington Monument | Permalink | Comments Off

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

Who am I? –Identity

January 31, 2018 – 4:40 pm

Alicia Olmeda, ESL , Coulwood STEM Academy

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags dual identity, identity, Immigrants, Memoirs, memories, monuments, self-identity, who am I | Permalink | Comments Off

Let Me Tell You How It Really Is: Using Satire to Correct Media’s Misrepresentation of Minority Cultures and Oppression

January 31, 2018 – 3:01 pm

Shanique Lee, English, North Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Analysis, critical, Culture, English, High School, humor, identity, marginalized, Media, minority, misrepresentation, oppression, satire, social, stereotype | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes

Stereotypical Scientists Unearthed: Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up!

January 31, 2018 – 2:43 pm

DeNise Gerst, Science, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags identity, image, minority, mythical, real, Science, Stereotypes | Permalink | Comments Off

2016 Curriculum Units Vol 3: The Many Faces of Capitalism around the Globe - Past and Present

A Fragmented Identity: The influence of imperialism on Nigerian literature

February 14, 2017 – 1:26 pm

Stephanie Misko Hynes, English, William Amos Hough High School

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Achebe, Adichie, capitalism, character devel-opment, Colonialism, colonist, colonizer, cultural perspective, Economics, High School, Hobson, identity, Imperialism, Joseph Con-rad, Paolo Freire, post-colonialism, socratic seminar, violence | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 2: What Makes a Nation?

North Carolina: A Search for Identity

February 24, 2016 – 1:57 pm

Mark Surratt, Fourth Grade, Providence Spring Elementary School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags active teaching, alternative learning, coastal, Elementary School, gifted education, History, identity, mountain, nation, North Carolina, Piedmont, simulation, state, tradition | Permalink | Comments Off

2014 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Metamorphosis: Transformative Experiences

Metaphorical Mutations

January 30, 2015 – 8:01 pm

Rochelle Stanley, English, Garinger High School

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

Tags Analyze, Author’s Purpose, community, evidence, identity, imagery, Literature, Metamorphosis, Poetry, Reflection, Research, Support, Transformation | Permalink | Comments Off

Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Growing Seeds of American Dreams: Art and literature as an expression of identity for Latino-American youth

May 1, 2014 – 7:49 pm

Ambrosia Wilson, Spanish, Marie G. Davis Academy

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

Tags american dream, collage, dream act, friedlander method, heritage, identity, ipads, jacob lawrence, joseph rodriguez, judith baca, Langston Hughes, Language, latino youth, lori carlson, mendez v. westminster, migration, murals, Photography, race, romare bearden, SIOP, Spanish, storytelling, urban life | Permalink | Comments Off

Cultivating the Classroom Culture

February 25, 2014 – 5:10 pm

Torrieann Dooley, Second Grade, David Cox Road Elementary School

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

Tags background, city life, Culture, identity, Reading, Social Studies, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2013 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Re-Defining the American Dream: Using Multicultural Literature to Revise the Ideals that Shape our Nation

February 25, 2014 – 5:07 pm

Elizabeth Craig, Language Arts, Martin Luther King Middle School

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

Tags america, american dream, Culture, identity, Immigration, ishmael reed, Langston Hughes, The Great Gatsby, the house on mango street, the multinational society, urban america | Permalink | Comments Off

2013 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Crafting Urban Stories Through Mixed Media

February 25, 2014 – 5:00 pm

Gloria Brinkman, Visual Arts, North Mecklenburg High School

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

Tags African American, Art, collage, community, craft, Culture, growing uo, hispanic, identity, literacy, memory, migrant, neighborhood, Poetry, Reading, story, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

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Tag Archives: identity

Art & Identity: Mapping a School Community

Who Am I, and Who Do I Hope to Become: Identity through an English Classroom

Identifying with Earth

Finding the Human Story within an Image

Why Build a Memorial?

Who am I? –Identity

Stereotypical Scientists Unearthed: Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up!

A Fragmented Identity: The influence of imperialism on Nigerian literature

North Carolina: A Search for Identity

Metaphorical Mutations

Growing Seeds of American Dreams: Art and literature as an expression of identity for Latino-American youth

Re-Defining the American Dream: Using Multicultural Literature to Revise the Ideals that Shape our Nation

Crafting Urban Stories Through Mixed Media

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