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Danielle Miller Lesson Plan for English 10th grade Time Frame: 3 Days (40 minute class periods)

**//Harlem Renaissance//**
=**__Day One:__**=

The students will understand, through literary works, the meaning of the Harlem Renaissance. The students will attempt to understand when the Renaissance started and why it happened. The students will examine the results of the Renaissance as it relates historically to America in the twenties.
 * __Objectives:__**


 * __Aim:__**

Look at the picture on the smart board. Jot down a few lines about what you think is going on, and how the people are being portrayed. Be sure to include at least 3 new vocabulary words from yesterday’s lesson!

-Frankie Manning


 * __Procedure__**__:__

First, I will present a power point presentation to the students, giving them some key facts and ideas about the Harlem Renaissance. media type="youtube" key="oiCWngPt-L4" width="425" height="350"

(The Harlem Renaissance document will be printed and handed out to the students, that way they have a reference to look back at.)

Next, I will pass out a handout that has the major events that took place during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s (we will not go over this in detail, but it will be a reference for the students to have).

Lastly, I will explain to students that they will begin a project that will require them to research authors from the Harlem Renaissance.Show students the student-work example of researching an author. Give students the "Harlem Renaissance Author Project" handout. They will all pick a number from a hat. The students will match the number they pick to the author with the same number on the list. (below is the handout of authors)

Name:

Author's Name:_

__Date:____

Please match the number you picked from the hat to the author on the list with the same number. On the second page, you will find a list of question you will have to answer about your author, and present on. The questions do not have to be answered for homework, as we will be working in the computer lab on your projects tomorrow, however, getting a head start is never a bad thing!

**//__Harlem Renaisance Authors__//**
(second page) Below is a list of 10 questions that you will need to answer about your author for your presentaion. For some of you, not all of the questions will be answerable, but most of them should be. You are not limited to any resources; please feel free to use as many sources as you'd like. If you are facing difficulty with your author please notify me ASAP, and will work something out. You will also be creating a photostory on your author; the directions for that piece of the project will be given out tomorrow. Be creative, have fun, and enjoy! 1.Who is the author?
 * 1) __ [|Arna Bontemps] __
 * 2) __ [|Countee Cullen] __
 * 3) __ [|Jessie Redmon Fauset] __
 * 4) __ [|Langston Hughes] __
 * 5) __ [|Zora Neale Hurston] __
 * 6) __ [|Nella Larsen] __
 * 7) __ [|Claude McKay] __
 * 8) __ [|George Schuyler] __
 * 9) __ [|Wallace Thurman] __
 * 10) __ [|Jean Toomer] __
 * 11) __ [|Carl Van Vechten] __
 * 12) __ [|Walter White] __
 * 13) __ [|Eric Walrond] __
 * 14) __ [|Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.] ,__
 * 15) __ [|Angelina Weld Grimke] __
 * 16) __ [|Georgia Douglas Johnson] ,__
 * 17) __ [|John Matheus] //.//__
 * 18) __ [|Richard Bruce Nugent] __
 * 19) __ [|Lewis Grandison Alexander] __
 * 20) __ [|Gwendolyn Bennett] __
 * 21) __ [|Sterling A. Brown] __
 * 22) __ [|Anita Scott Coleman] __
 * 23) __ [|Waring Cuney] __
 * 24) __ [|James Weldon Johnson] __
 * 25) __ [|May Miller] __

2.What books have they written?

3.What are some important things that happened to them? (Biographical information)

4.What are some other interesting things about this author?

5. Choose a short poem or reading from a work by this author to share with the class.

6. What are some major social issues this author explores?

7. What is this author's stand on political issues, economic issues, social issues, etc ?

8. How can the writings / beliefs of this author be relevant to the 21st century (modern society)?

9. What have you learned personally from this author? Has this author changed your views / ideas on anything?

10. Is there anything else you would like us to know about this author?

(Timeline that would be handed out)

Name:_ __Date:____

**//__Harlem Renaissance Timeline(1920's)__//**

 * 1920**
 * Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Convention held at Madison Square Garden, August.
 * Charles Gilpin starred in Eugene O'Neill, //The Emperor Jones//, November.
 * James Weldon Johnson, first black officer (secretary) of NAACP appointed.
 * Claude McKay published //Spring in New Hampshire//.
 * Du Bois's //Darkwater// is published.
 * O'Neill's //The Emperor Jones//, starring Charles Gilpin, opens at the Provincetown Playhouse.
 * 1921**
 * //Shuffle Along// by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the first musical revue written and performed by African Americans (cast members include Josephine Baker and Florence Mills), opened, May 22, at Broadway's David Belasco Theater.
 * Marcus Garvey founded African Orthodox Church, September.
 * Second Pan African Congress.
 * Colored Players Guild of New York founded.
 * Benjamin Brawley published //Social History of the American Negro//.
 * 1922**
 * First Anti-Lynching legislation approved by House of Representatives.
 * Publications of //The Book of American Negro Poetry// edited by James Weldon Johnson; Claude McKay, //Harlem Shadows//.
 * 1923**
 * //Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life// is founded by the National Urban League, with Charles S. Johnson as its editor.
 * National Ethiopian Art Players staged //The Chip Woman's Fortune// by Willis Richardson, first serious play by a black writer on Broadway, May.
 * Claude McKay spoke at the Fourth Congress of the Third International in Moscow, June.
 * The Cotton Club opened, Fall.
 * Marcus Garvey arrested for mail fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.
 * Third Pan African Congress.
 * Publications of Jean Toomer, //Cane//; Marcus Garvey, //Philosophy and Opinion of Marcus Garvey//. 2 vols.
 * 1924**
 * Civic Club Dinner, sponsored by Opportunity, bringing black writers and white publishers together, March 21. This event is considered the formal launching of of the New Negro movement.
 * Paul Robeson starred in O'Neill's //All God's Chillun Got Wings//, May 15.
 * Countee Cullen won first prize in the Witter Bynner Poetry Competition.
 * Publications of Du Bois, //The Gift of Black Folk//; Jessie Fauset, //There is Confusion//; Marcus Garvey, //Aims and Objects for a Solution of the Negro Problem Outlined//; Walter White, //The Fire in the Flint//.
 * 1925**
 * //Survey Graphic// issue, "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro," edited by Alain Locke and Charles Johnson, devoted entirely to black arts and letters, March.
 * American Negro Labor Congress held in Chicago, October.
 * //Opportunity// holds its first literary awards dinner; winners include Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston.
 * The first //Crisis// awards ceremony is held at the Renaissance Casino; Countee Cullen wins first prize.
 * Publications of Cullen, //Color//; Du Bose Heyward, //Porgy//; James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson, eds. //The Book of American Negro Spirituals//; Alain Locke, //The New Negro//; Sherwood Anderson, //Dark Laughter// (a novel showing Black life).
 * 1926**
 * Countee Cullen becomes Assistant Editor of //Opportunity//; begins to write a regular column "The Dark Tower."
 * Savoy Ballroom opened in Harlem, March.
 * Publications of Wallace Thurman, //Fire!!//; Langston Hughes, //The Weary Blues//; Carl Van Vechten, //Nigger Heaven//; Eric Walrond, //Tropic Death//; W. C. Handy, //Blues: An Anthology//; and Walter White, //Flight//.
 * 1927**
 * //In Abraham's Bosom// by Paul Green, with an all-black cast, won the Pulitzer Prize, May.
 * Ethel Waters first appeared on Broadway, July.
 * Marcus Garvey deported.
 * Louis Armstrong in Chicago and Duke Ellington in New York began their careers.
 * Harlem Globetrotters established.
 * Charlotte Mason decides to become a patron of the New Negro.
 * A'Lelia Walker opens a tearoom salon called "The Dark Tower."
 * Publications of Miguel Covarrubias, //Negro Drawings//; Cullen, //Ballad of the Brown Girl//, //Copper Sun//, and //Caroling Dusk//; Arthur Fauset, //For Freedom: A Biographical Story of the American Negro//; Hughes, //Fine Clothes to the Jew//; James Weldon Johnson, //God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse// and //The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man// (reprint of the 1912 edition); Alain Locke and Montgomery T. Gregory, eds. //Plays of Negro Life//.
 * 1928**
 * Countee Cullen marries Nina Yolande, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, April 9; described as the social event of the decade.
 * Publications of Wallace Thurman, //Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life//; Du Bois, //The Dark Princess//; Rudolph Fisher, //The Walls of Jericho//; Nella Larsen, //Quicksand//; Jessie Fauset, //Plum Bun//; Claude McKay, //Home to Harlem//.
 * 1929**
 * Negro Experimental Theatre founded, February; Negro art Theatre founded, June; National Colored Players founded, September.
 * Wallace Thurman's play //Harlem//, written with William Jourdan Rapp, opens at the Apollo Theater on Broadway and becomes hugely successful.
 * Black Thursday, October 29, Stock Exchange crash.
 * Publications of Cullen, //The Black Christ and Other Poems//;Claude McKay, //Banjo//; Nella Larsen, //Passing//; Wallace Thurman, //The Blacker the Berry//; and Walter White, //Rope and Faggot: The Biography of Judge Lynch//.

=**__Day Two__**=

**//Harlem Renaissance//**

 * __Objectives:__**
 * 1) The students will understand through literary works, the meaning of the Harlem Renaissance.
 * 2) The students will attempt to understand when the Renaissance started and why it happened.
 * 3) The students will examine the results of the Renaissance as it relates historically to America in the twenties.

Review with students the overview of the Harlem Renaissance. Assign students to laptops / computers. Allow students to research websites finding important information about their authors: 1.Who is the author? 2.What books have they written? 3.What are some important things that happened to them? (Biographical information) 4.What are some other interesting things about this author? 5. Choose a short poem or reading from a work by this author to share with the class. 6. What are some major social issues this author explores? 7. What is this author's stand on political issues, economic issues, social issues, etc ? 8. How can the writings / beliefs of this author be relevant to the 21st century (modern society)? 9. What have you learned personally from this author? Has this author changed your views / ideas on anything? 10. Is there anything else you would like us to know about this author?
 * __Procedure:__**

Students should begin creating a script for their PhotoStory. Students will use Internet access to research and save several pictures of the authors to the computers. Students will then use the saved pictures to begin building their PhotoStory. Students will use their microphone headsets to record the prepared scripts onto the story. When students are finished, files should be saved onto a removable drive. This script can be worked on as homework and a completed copy brought in for the next day's class.

Photostory Tutorial media type="youtube" key="06MFnTRqcKM" width="425" height="350"

=**__Day Three__**=

//**Harlem Renaissance**//

 * __Objectives:__**
 * 1) The students will understand through literary works, the meaning of the Harlem Renaissance.
 * 2) The students will attempt to understand when the Renaissance started and why it happened.
 * 3) The students will examine the results of the Renaissance as it relates historically to America in the twenties.
 * __Aim:__**

"Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again." - Zora Neal Hurtson

In your journals, write at least a one page response to this quote. Be sure to include 3 new vocabulary words you learned this week!


 * __Procedure:__**

We will go over students journal response quickly, just so we can share ideas. Next, the students will present their PhotoStory and presentation about their author.

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