Harlem Renaissance 2.3

Harlem Renaissance 2.3

Do now: Discuss in table groups What is your favorite kind of art?

Objectives:

• close read art work
• examine how art can help to lessen ignorance and racism?  

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Exchange music paragraphs with a partner-- read and write ONE comment
3. Collect paragraphs (share if on Google Drive)

3. Close read several art works- discuss as a class (Google Slides)

5. In table groups: discuss "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"-- 

• What is the tone of the story?
• Identify one excerpt that you feel is powerful. Annotate in the margins why you feel this way
• write an assertion statement: what is Zora Neale Hurston's main message from this essay?

6. In table groups: read/annotate TEWWG for the rest of the period

HW: Finish TEWWG

Harlem Renaissance 2.2

Harlem Renaissance 2.2

Do now: Listen to the piece of jazz music.  Brainstorm a list of word associations that come to your mind as you listen.

Objectives:

• reflect on the influence of jazz on Hughes’ works
• identify conceit in “Mother to Son”
• discuss the influence of music in one’s life

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Discuss do now

3. Review ‘Yet Do I Marvel”

4. Read/annotate/share “Mother to Son”

5. “Strange Fruit”

6. Work on TEWWG

HW: music writing assignment and read “How It Feels to be Colored Me”

Jazz Songs

Jazz Songs

HR 2.1

Do now: What are the different connotations for “The White House”  

Objectives:

• identify conceit in “The White House”
• identify mythology allusions in “Yet Do I Marvel”

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Share jazz songs

3. Review: “The White House”

4. Close read “Yet Do I Marvel”

5. Summarizer

HW: Annotate and answer questions for “Yet Do I Marvel”

Harlem Renaissance 1.4

Harlem Renaissance 1.4

Do now: What are the three facts you learned about the Harlem Renaissance?

Objectives:

• identify the main conflict in the Harlem Renaissance

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Free Write answers to the following Essential question:

• What is the American Dream, and why/how was it different for black Americans in the early 20th century?
• Can art help to lessen ignorance and racism?  
• What impact did the figures of the Harlem Renaissance have on later American culture/art/attitudes?

3. Harlem Renaissance notes

4. Du Bois and Locke readings/questions

5. Review poetry terms

6. Summarizer

HW: Research one jazz song.  Bring a link/copy of song to class tomorrow