HARLEM RENAISSANCE RESEARCH PROJECT

Directions:

1. With a partner, choose one of the following writers from the Harlem Renaissance and become an expert on your chosen person and his/her work. Thoroughly research your person using the library and the internet.

2. Using your research, create a lesson plan to present to the class. The lesson must include visual and/or audio aids and handouts. With your partner, you will teach the class about a piece of literature by your chosen person. The lesson plan needs to be designed to teach basic biographical information on your Harlem Renaissance research and focus specifically on the work, its significance, and its impact on culture and society. Students can use technology such as boxlights and powerpoint presentations, overhead projectors, as well as work processing programs or internet programs to create physical handouts. Let teacher know beforehand if you need special accommodations/handouts. Ideas for teaching creatively: Dramatic readings of poetry, put the reading to music, or create an artistic representation of the poem/writing. Remember: you are teaching something important about your writer’s work. What lesson do you want students to remember?

3. Teach your lesson.

Graded On:100 points

1. Thorough research & understanding of your person – can answer questions within reason. 20 pts

2. Completeness and coherency of lesson – is objective obvious and attained? (i.e. what is your point?) 40 pts.

3. Visual/audio aids and worksheets 20 pts.

4. Presentation skills – clarity, thorough knowledge, gum, projecting voice, handle yourself as a teacher 20 pts

Harlem Renaissance Writers:

Leaders:

WEB DuBois

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Alain Locke

Writers:

Langston Hughes

Richard Wright

Countee Cullen

Margaret Walker

Zora Neale Hurston

Claude McKay

James Weldon Johnson

Angelina Grimke

Nella Larsen

Anne Spencer

Musicians:

Duke Ellington

Bessie Smith

Ma Rainey

Louis Armstrong

Billie Holiday

Josephine Baker

Noble Sissle

Eubie Blake

Actors/Actresses:

Josephine Baker

Pearl Bailey

Paul Robeson

Florence Mills

Charles Gilpin

Artists:

Meta Fuller

Aaron Douglas

Palmer Hayden

Henry O. Tanner

Edmonia Lewis

Sargent Johnson

HARLEM RENAISSANCE PROJECT GRADE

Group: ______

Class: ______Date: ______

Topic: ______

Graded On:(100 points)

1. Thorough research & understanding of your______

person – can answer questions within reason.

20 pts

2. Completeness and coherency of lesson –______

is objective obvious and attained (i.e. what is

your point?)

40 pts.

3. Visual/audio aids and worksheets______

20 pts.

4. Presentation skills – clarity, thorough knowledge,______

gum, projecting voice, handle yourself as a teacher

20 pts.

TOTAL: ______

Name: ______Date: ______

REFLECTIONS ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

  1. What impact did the Harlem Renaissance have on African Americans? What is the significance of this period in African American history?
  1. What did I learn about the Harlem Renaissance by viewing it from different disciplinary perspectives?
  1. How did learning about varied artists, musicians, and poets contribute to my understanding of this time period?
  1. List and describe three other concepts that you think would be enhanced by cross-disciplinary learning.