Tag Archives: Language Arts

2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Fresh off the Boat: Helping Immigrants and Non-Immigrants Unpack the Stereotypes that Affect their School Experience in America

Justine Busto, ESL, East Mecklenburg High School

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2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Accuracy in Africa: The Causes of the Sierra Leone Civil War as a Lens for Stereotypes of African Conflicts

Ian Joyce, Social Studies, Eastway Middle School

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2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

The Breadwinner and the struggle for Social Justice

Sarah Anne Korenyik, Language Arts, Northwest School of Arts

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2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

Critical Inquiry: Teaching Students to Use Discourse Analysis to Unpack Narratives of the American Soldier in The Things They Carried and Apocalypse Now.

Christopher Williams, English, East Mecklenburg High School

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2015 CTI News Vol 1: Exercise and the Brain

Algernon’s Exercise Regimen

Molly McCarthy, Language Arts, Piedmont IB Middle School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Intersections of Science, Technology and Culture

Myths and Science

Tavia Highsmith, Science, Albemarle Road Middle School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

“Freedom Schools”: Exploring Racism, Tolerance, and Prejudice

Kimberly Palmer, Language Arts, Ridge Road Middle School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

From Roots to Flourishing Literacy: Using Picture Books and Graphic Novels in the Middle and High School ESL Classroom

Justine Busto, English, East Mecklenburg High School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

The Art of Digital Storytelling

Delee Marciano, Language Arts, Randolph Middle School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Human Agency

Moral Agency: Philosophy and Responsibility in Elementary School

Torrieann Martyn Dooley Kennedy, Language Arts, David Cox Road Elementary School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Human Agency

What’s Your Super Power?

Laura Champury, Language Arts, Francis Bradley Middle School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Human Agency

Was Charlie Given the Chocolate Factory Because He DID Good Or Because He WAS Good?

Amy LaLonde, Language Arts, Tuckaseegee Elementary

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Environmental Science and Climate Change

Let’s Take Care of Our Earth

Torrieann M. Dooley, Integrated Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, David Cox Road Elementary School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 6: "All immigration is local": Exploring the New Geography of Immigration

The Rhetoric of Shared Humanity: Exploring How Our Views of Others and Ourselves Are Shaped in the 21st Century Global Community

S. Nicole Jenkins, English/Language Arts, Providence High School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Reading African American Lives

How Environment Influences Our Lives: The Influence on Writers’ Work and Ourselves

Kristian DeShea Jones, Language Arts, Social Studies, Library Classes, Nathaniel Alexander Elementary

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