1. Do Now: What does the term Renaissance mean? (think back to global history) AIM: How Can We Understand the Significance of the Harlem Renaissance by Examining its Significant Individuals and the Literature and Music it Produced?

2. Vocabulary Harlem Renaissance: A renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after WWI in the Harlem section of NYC. Great Migration: A movement between 1910 and 1920 when hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the South and moved North to big cities in search of jobs.

3. Activity #1 We will read the Harlem Renaissance handout together Write a summary of the reading Answer the 4 multiple choice questions

4. Harlem Renaissance Video Harlem Renaissance Video (Teacher Tube)

5. The Great Migration SOUTHERN BLACKS AND THE LURE OF THE NORTH BEFORE AND AFTER 1914 Most African Americans remained in the South nearly fifty years after the Civil War. There were plenty of reasons for blacks to leave the south, but little economic advantage to moving northward. With outbreak of World War I, this dynamic changes because: – 1) war generates new opportunities for industry – 2) much of existing labor supply leaves work force – 3) immigrant labor pool evaporates. End result: The Great Migration which congregated black populations in northern cities like Chicago and New York in unprecedented numbers. The concentration, in New York city, occurred on the upper west side, in Harlem.

6. Harlem Renaissance Facebook Project

7. Harlem Renaissance FigureSpecialty Edward Ellington (Duke Ellington)Composer/ Musician/ bandleader Marcus GarveyJournalist/activist Bessie SmithSinger Paul RobesonActor/singer/activist Langston HughesPoet/Novelist/playwright Claude McKayPoet/novelist

8. Activity #2 Choose a figure from the Harlem Renaissance Read the information provided Begin filling in your template

9. Summary How Can We Understand the Significance of the Harlem Renaissance by Examining its Significant Individuals and the Literature and Music it Produced?