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2022 Vol 4: What is Identity?

Intersecting Identities: Exploring How Identities are Reflected in Literature and Film

Franchone Bey, English, West Charlotte High School

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Synopsis: This unit will focus on how identities are created in literature and film. Students will be able to identify how the influence of stereotypes influence self-identity. Through critical analysis of images in texts and the media, students will be able to recognize the power that these images have in shaping perception. Students will also be introduced to how schemas develop as a result of reinforced repetition of stereotypes. The repetition of images, and character types have had an impact on society and culture. Students will be introduced to a broad history of stereotyping in film and defining stereotypes. Students will identify stereotypes and then explore the negative effects of racial stereotyping today. 

2022 Vol 4: What is Identity?

Seeing Themselves in Books: An Exploration of Student Identities

Johnna Hauck, 5th Grade, Shamrock Gardens Elementary School

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Synopsis: In this unit, students will learn about identity and explore their own identities through a series of literacy-based lessons in order to answer the question: How can our identities shape our lives? Front Desk will be the text used throughout these lessons. This will allow for students to engage with 5th grade literacy standards, but also lend itself to conversations and activities about identity. Students learn about identity and other concepts that intertwine with identity from a fiction text. This learning will then be applied to students exploring their own identities and experiences. Questions about identity are embedded throughout the unit in order to spark interest, engagement, and reflection on the part of students. Conversations drive most lessons forward, and encourage students to question their beliefs as well as events taking place in the world today. These content areas are integrated throughout the unit with one overarching goal – to encourage students to critically examine how identity shapes our lives including our relationships, our choices, and the way we think and act.

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Philosophical Foundations of Education

Integrating Philosophy into Literacy: Discussing Japanese American Incarceration

Johnna Hauck, 5th Grade, Devonshire Elementary School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Climate Refugee Stories

Chew On This: Environmental Racism and Food Justice

Jennifer Myers, World History, Mallard Creek High School

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

Mapping The World Around You: Using Digital Mapping and Inquiry to Interpret Historical Moments of Segregation

Jasmine Dozier, World History, iMeck Academy at Cochrane Collegiate Academy

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Southern Children's Literature

Writing Your Story: Narrative Storytelling from the Heart: Examining How Identity is Reflected in Southern Children’s Literature Novel “The Watson’s Go To Birmingham”

Franchone Bey, English, West Charlotte High School

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

Influence of Media on Perception of Black Women

Franchone Bey, English, West Charlotte High

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Narratives of Muslim Life in America

The Rise of American-Born Muslims, In An Era of Islamophobia, Post-9/11!

Roshan Varghese, Social Studies, Butler High

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Narratives of Muslim Life in America

Muslims in America: A journey in time from slavery to today’s community pillars

Radwa Ahmed, 4th Grade, Waddell Language Academy

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Africa: Beneath the Headlines

Developing Unity in the Colorful Classroom

Denatia Palmer, Language Arts, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Time Travel: Using Music to Explore Past, Present, and Future Messages

“I, Too, Sing America:” analyzing sex, race, and STEM in 20th Century America.”

Shealynn Womble, Language Arts, Governor’s Village STEM Academy

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Making a Menace to Society: The Criminalization of Black Men and Boys

Yasmin Forbes, African American Studies, Mallard Creek High

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

I Prefer Living in Color – Opening Windows to the Beauty of Varied Identities

Lecia Shockley, 1st Grade, Selwyn Elementary

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Africa: Beneath the Headlines

Africa in the Media: Past, Present, and Future

Veronica Hall, History, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Africa: Beneath the Headlines

Exploration of African Culture Through Film: Exploring How Different African Cultures Are Reflected in Film

Franchone Bey, English, West Charlotte High

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