Tag Archives: Literature

2020 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Black Girl Magic (Mis)Understood: Representations and Perceptions of Black Women and Girls in the Education System

HerStory: The Untold Stories of African American Women in History

Veronica Hall, Social Studies, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 4: WWI and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century

But Was the Book Better? Analyzing Film and Literature

Deena Aglialoro, English, Olympic High

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Childhood and the City Space in Literature

The Backwards Mirror Called Academic Literature: African American Children Need to See Their Reflection

Nichole Robinson-McLeod, Language Arts, Mountain Island Lake Academy

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Children in War and Conflict

Building Perspective: Understanding History through Fiction

Shannon McFarland, Language Arts, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

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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 3: Metamorphosis: Transformative Experiences

Metaphorical Mutations

Rochelle Stanley, English, Garinger High School

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

Latino and African American Literature: Revealing our Core Identity

Beth Lasure, Visual Arts, Mallard Creek High School

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

Mirror, Window, Blueprint: Identity, the Other, and Social Constructs in African American and Hispanic Literature

Stefanie Carter-Dodson, Language Arts, Martin Luther King Middle School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Imagining Modern Bodies: Disability and Art at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

“Our Mere Defects Prove Our Commodities”: King Lear as a Disability Narrative

Tiffany DiMatteo, English, Myers Park High School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Human Social Groups

Making Connections: Group Dynamics, Literature, and Poetry

Tamara Wood, Language Arts, Albemarle Road Middle School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Reading Media Imagery: Critical Thinking and Literacy

Media Imaginary: Video Media smart designers in the 21st century.

Ingryd Soto, ESL, West Charlotte High School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Our Common Threads: A Month of Our American Stories Through the Art, Music, and Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Karen Ann Donaldson, Language Arts, Collinswood Language Academy

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Reading Media Imagery: Critical Thinking and Literacy

Reading the American Dream: Critical Literary of Theory in The Greaty Gatsby and Finding Forrester

Tiffany DiMatteo, English III, Myers Park High School

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