Today is the first day of the Interwar Unit in US History and the Harlem Renaissance Unit in American Literature. We will spend both class periods today doing a joint launch lesson in the community room.
Today's objectives:
By the end of today's lesson, students will have analyzed primary source documents from the WWI period in order to establish what black and white Americans hoped for the 1920s, analyzed primary source documents from the 1920s period in order to determine whether these post-WWI hopes/dreams were fulfilled, and compared/contrasted black and white experiences of the “Roaring 20s.”
Agenda:
During this two-period lesson, students will interact with many primary source documents from the WWI/Interwar periods. Between documents/activities, students will return to the sheet entitled "Post WWI Dreams vs. Reality Chart" to add new information they have learned about the dreams and realities of African-Americans and White Americans in this era.
1) What's coming up in Humanities for the rest of this year?
2) Students read selections from Teddy Roosevelt speech entitled "The Negroes' Part in the War," respond to questions, and fill in dreams/method boxes on the chart (w/ focus on Black Americans)
2) Students read selections from "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents," respond to questions, and fill in dreams/method boxes on chart (w/ focus on White Americans)
3) In small groups, students are given envelopes filled with images from the 1920s. Students choose six images to analyze, fill in the analysis chart, and then record their findings in the reality boxes on the chart.
4) Students read three texts by Langston Hughes ("Democracy," "I, Too," and "Colored Soldier") and work together to orally analyze the texts and draw connections/elicit differences. Each student is responsible for taking a specific role in the group discussion. Students synthesize their findings and record them in the Black Americans reality box on the chart.
HW: Finish typing together your first two Kindred EAP essays -- this is due at the beginning of class next Monday, March 8 (per. 1,2) or Tuesday, March 9 (per. 5,6). If you do not have a printer and need to print your essay out, please go to the LC at least 20 minutes before the beginning of the school day. There will not be any computers to print from in the classroom.
