A Creative Era Chapter 13, Section 3

DO NOT COPY! 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 HW: (1) Read and outline Ch. 11, Sect. 1 (2) Harlem Renaissance Project due Tuesday, March 8 th (3) Current Events online forum – ONLY for those who need to post

DO NOT COPY 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 role does art (music, literature, cinema, etc.) play in your life? Explain. HW: Harlem Renaissance Mini- Project due Tuesday, March 8 th.

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

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, Film. watch?v=SN1WjeWzCSk Parenthetical In-text citation: (“Making a Way Out of No Way”)

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 Your project should answer the following guiding questions: What was the Harlem Renaissance? Who were the artists and writers of this time? What is the title of the work of art you chose to examine and who is the artist? What do you see happening in the piece of art? What do you see that makes you say that? (evidence) How did the artist express pride in their cultural heritage?

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 VTS Poem A VTS Song You must provide historical evidence in your writing!

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/Song: Select a piece of art by a Harlem Renaissance artist and create an original poem describing the artwork with specific evidence from the artwork and 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.)