A Creative Era

Chapter 13, Section 3

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Topic: A Creative Era

Objective: Students will be able to identify and describe how artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance used their work to express pride in their cultural heritage

Do Now: How did the 1920’s help shape modern day America politically, socially, and economically?

HW: (1) Read and outline Chapter 13, Section 3 (2) Harlem Renaissance Project due Friday, March 27th. (3) Current Events online forum

A Creative Era

1920s “Jazz Age”

Jazz incorporates West African and Latin American rhythms, elements of African American spirituals, and ragtime, as well as European harmonies

Harlem Renaissance→ creative black artists, writers, and musicians living in Harlem → reviving the arts and black culture

Harlem Renaissance Mini-Project

Directions: Provide your interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance by describing how artists and writers expressed pride in their cultural heritage through their work. For your interpretation, you may provide examples of art, music, theater, literature, or the Harlem Renaissance as a whole.

Harlem Renaissance Mini-Project

You may choose one of the following ways to describe the Harlem Renaissance, its artists and writers, and how they expressed their cultural heritage: A VTS Descriptive Paragraph A Poem A Song

You must provide historical evidence in your writing!

Harlem Renaissance Mini-Project

Your project should answer the following guiding questions:

What was the Harlem Renaissance? Who were the artists and writers of this time? How did they choose to express their cultural

heritage?

Cultural heritage

“an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions, and values. Cultural heritage is often expressed as either intangible or tangible cultural heritage” (ICOMOS, 2002).

Expressing pride in African American culture

“The black playwright and the black actor will interpret the soul of their people in a way to win the attention and admiration of the world.” Alain Locke, African American theater critic

"The Ascent of Ethiopia"(1932) was painted by Lois Mailou Jones.

Directions…

VTS Descriptive Paragraph: Select one work of art or photograph from the Harlem Renaissance and analyze it using your Visual Thinking Strategies. Your analysis of the work of art or photograph should address the VTS questions and the how artist/photographer expressed pride in their cultural heritage through the work of art or photograph. The descriptive paragraph should be put on construction paper with the image you examined to represent the Harlem Renaissance.

Directions…

Poem: Create an original poem describing your interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance with specific evidence from the text. You must have a minimum of five stanzas with four lines per stanza. You need to make specific references to content covered in class in EACH stanza. PLEASE PROOF READ! The poem should also be presented in a creative way (i.e. construction paper, picture, color, ect.)

Directions…

Song: Create a poem describing your interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance with specific evidence from the text. This song can be created in any genre but it must be 5 stanzas long which includes one hook/chorus. You need to make specific reference to content covered in class in EACH stanza. PLEASE PROOF READ! The song needs to be typed and neatly presented on construction paper with an image to represent the Harlem Renaissance.

Making a Way Out of No Way

A PBS documentary about the Harlem Renaissance. Use this 10 minute clip to gather evidence for your Harlem Renaissance project.

What was the Harlem Renaissance? Who were the artists and writers of this time? How did they choose to express their cultural heritage?

Documentary Citation

Work Cited Page:

Making a Way Out of No Way. Kunhardt McGee

Productions & Inkwell Films. The African

Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Series,

2014. Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ozfYC9CZE

Parenthetical In-text citation:

(“Making a Way Out of No Way”)