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2023 Vol 3: All Roads of Through Run Through Oz

The Wiz in You

Marian Myers, 8th Grade, Northridge Middle School

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Synopsis: This curriculum unit will focus on teaching self-awareness and how students’ personality, attitudes, interests, values and learning styles can influence career decisions. The first part of this unit involves personal character education. Strategies include self-assessments (https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/identity-charts-0), discovering interests and skills for working with people, working with data, working with things, or working with ideas, interactive notebooks, goal-setting and decision-making activities, role plays, and analyzing real-life scenarios. By integrating character traits like caring, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, citizenship, and fairness into all areas of the school experience, students gain better self-awareness, self-confidence, and the desire to become more socially responsible. Part two of this unit focuses on career exploration of interests and skills (https://www.careeronestop.org/), job market trends, education and training needed, cost-of-living /reality-checks, mock interviewing, completing applications and networking. A gallery walk strategy will provide opportunities for group work to research and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of various career decisions. 

2024 Vol 6: Integrating Aging Education in the PK-12 Curriculum: Combating Ageism through the Classroom

Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number

Monique Hall, 4th Grade, Devonshire Elementary School

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Synopsis: In this unit, young scholars will explore the lives of centenarians who are people who have lived 100 years or more, and the concept of aging. Teaching about ageism is important for several reasons. By introducing elementary students to centenarians, it fosters respect for older generations, raises awareness about longevity of life, and sparks interest in history and culture. It also highlights the importance of diversity and individuality, promotes meaningful intergenerational connections, and encourages students to reflect on their own values and perspectives on aging. 

This unit aligns with the North Carolina mathematical standards and the lessons will be used in conjunction with CMS curriculum. 

This curriculum will be taught adjacent to the 100th day of school. This will be a school wide- initiative. 

2018 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Teaching Human Rights

“Capitalism versus Communism: An Analysis on Economic Differences in the Cold War”

by James Berkman, Social Studies, MLK Middle School

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2018 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Exploring American Sacred Values

English Language Learners: Acculturation through Language and Values

William L. Wade, ESL, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School

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2018 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Exploring American Sacred Values

Evaluating the Evolution of Oppression of Women in the United States of America through a Literary Lens

Benjamin Lyall, English, North Mecklenburg High School

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

Architects of Peace: Pathways and Unintended Pauses in the Landscape of Our Common Home

Gloria J. Brinkman, Visual Art, North Mecklenburg High School

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2015 Vol 2: What Makes a Nation?

Our Stories, Values and Traditions: Tall Tales and the Thanksgiving Story

Heather Simpson, Grades 1-3, Chantilly Montessori

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 6: The Art of Fiction: Close Analysis, Style and the Novel

Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood: The Path of Heroes

Angelina McCurry, English, Alexander Graham Middle School

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

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