Chapter 13, Section 3

 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: What is a renaissance ? Make an inference and explain.
 HW: (1) Harlem Renaissance Project due
Monday, April 7 th . (2) Current Events online forum

 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

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

 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 Descriptive Paragraph
 A Poem
 A Song
 You must provide historical evidence in your writing!

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?

 “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.

Example song:
“The Jazz Age”
 What specific content that we studied was referenced in the song?

 Descriptive Paragraph: Establish a clear claim supported by at least 3 warrants describing your interpretation of the Harlem
Renaissance with specific evidence from the text. You must provide a minimum of THREE references to specific content covered in class and have a minimum of 5-6 sentences.
PLEASE PROOF READ! The descriptive paragraph should be put on construction paper with picture to represent the Harlem
Renaissance.

 Poem : Create a poem describing your interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance with specific evidence from the text. You must have a minimum of four stanzas with four lines per stanza. You need to make specific reference 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.)

 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.