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What do you know about Jazz?

Explain in a short paragraph in your notebook .

Make sure you are seeing me about

make up quizzes and missing work…

Checks for Understanding: Question Matrix After

the notes have been completed the students are to take

out their question creation matrix and add five questions

to their sheet from the notes.

We are going to get this done—So Work HARD!!

Video Clip--Students watch a short introductory video clip on the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on America. As students watch the video clip they are to fill in a graphic organizer about the Who what when and where of the Harlem Renaissance in their notebooks.

Note Taking Activity: Cornell Notes Students will use the PowerPoint—The Harlem Renaissance and take Cornell notes during the lecture.

Guided Reading Worksheet 20 Min

Students complete a guided reading worksheet about the major events that took place during the Harlem Renaissance.

DOL--GSA: In a short constructed response explain how the Harlem Renaissance began to reshape the America culture during the 1920s.

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Learning Goal: LG 2

› Analyze the 1920s Popular culture and how it

impacted the American economy

Lesson Objective:

› SWBAT Identify the beginnings and impact of

the Harlem Renaissance on American

Culture

What Social trends and

innovations shaped

popular culture during

the 1920s?

The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American social thought which was expressed through

› Paintings

› Music

› Dance

› Theater

› Literature

Where is Harlem?

The island of Manhattan

New York City is on Manhattan island

Neighborhoods

Centered in the Harlem district of New York City, the New Negro Movement (as it was called at the time) had a major influence across the Unites States and even the world.

The economic opportunities of the era triggered a widespread migration of black Americans from the rural south to the industrial centers of the north - and especially to New York City.

In New York and other cities, black Americans explored new opportunities for intellectual and social freedom.

Black American artists, writers, and musicians began to use their talents to work for civil

rights and obtain equality.

The Harlem Renaissance helped to redefine

how Americans and the world understood

African American culture. It integrated black

and white cultures, and marked the

beginning of a black urban society.

The Harlem Renaissance set the stage for

the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and

60s.

“Take The A Train”

Billy Strayhorn for the Duke Ellington Orchestra

You must take the A train

To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem

If you miss the A train

You'll find you missed the quickest

way to Harlem

Hurry, get on, now it's coming

Listen to those rails a-humming

All aboard, get on the A train

Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in

Harlem

•What is the tone or mood of this recording?

•Why do you think the original recording was made and for what audience?

•List two things in this sound recording that tell you about life in the United States at

the time.

Now that you’ve learned more

about the Harlem

Renaissance, listen again to

this song. Does it change your

answers to the analysis

questions below?

Artists such as Jacob Lawrence

Authors such as Langston Hughes

Musicians such as Duke Ellington,

Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith

Harlem Renaissance › A flowering of

African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City.

Beginning:

› 1924 Opportunity

magazine hosted a

party for black writers

with many white

publishers attending

Ending:

› 1929, the year of the

stock market crash

and the resulting

economic Great

Depression.

Descendants from a generation whose parents or grandparents had witnessed slavery and Reconstruction

Lived in a country governed by Jim Crow laws.

Many of these

people were part

of the Great

Migration out of

the South and

other racially

stratified

communities ;

Between 1910 and 1930, the African American population in

the North rose by about 20 percent overall. Cities such as

Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Cleveland had some of the

biggest increases.

Avoid the racial segregation of Jim Crow laws in the South

Boll weevil infestation in Southern cotton in the late 1910s forced people to search for other work

Blacks could take the service jobs that new white factory workers had vacated;

The Immigration Act of 1924 stopped European immigrants, causing a shortage of factory workers;

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 displaced thousands of African-American farm workers.

Music

Literature

Art

Jazz › Brass and woodwind

instruments with trumpets, trombones and saxophones playing lead parts

› Characterized by intricate leads and accidentals

› Complex chords, syncopated rhythms

› Improvised solos

Big Band or Swing

› No microphones

meant that

musicians increased

band size to

increase sound

› Used composers

and arrangers

› Little room for

improvisation

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston

Hughes

Countee

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Self Portrait with Bandana, William

Johnson

Portrait Bust of Paul Robeson

Sir Jacob Epstein Midonz, Ronald Moody

Les Fetiches, Lois Mailou Jones

Dust to Dust, Jacob Lawrence

Blues, Archibald Motley, Jr.

Café, William H. Johnson

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Guided Reading Worksheet › Students complete a guided

reading worksheet about the major events that took place during the Harlem Renaissance.

James Weldon –Johnson Poet and civil rights leader Marcus Garvey—Black nationalist leader

Harlem Renaissance--African-American artistic movement

Claude McKay—Poet

Langston Hughes Poet Zora Neale Hurston—Anthropologist and author

Paul Robeson Actor, singer, and civil-rights leader Louis Armstrong—Jazz musician

Duke Ellington—Jazz musician

Bessie Smith—Blues singer

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GSA: In a short constructed

response explain how the

Harlem Renaissance began to

reshape the America culture

during the 1920s.

› The idea reflects an awareness of the complexities

of the text.

› The student is able to make connections across

the text.

› The text evidence used to support the idea is

specific and well chosen.

› The combination of the idea and the text

evidence demonstrates a deep understanding of

the text.