Today's objectives:
By the end of today's lesson, students will individually read and analyze one of three different versions of “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” read three different poems (“No Images” by Waring Cuney, “My People” by Langston Hughes, and “Poem” by Helene Johnson) and orally analyze them; and synthesize information from all four texts in order to generate the New Negro Mvmt/Harlem Renaissance approach to Black progress.
Agenda:
1) Students will read and analyze (using provided questions) one of three differentiated versions of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
2) Literary discussion circles on Hughes's text
3) In the same groups, students will read and orally analyze three Harlem Renaissance poems
4) Groups will fill in the righthand column of the chart on approaches to Black progress in the 1920s (the lefthand column will be filled in during today’s lesson in history class)
HW: none
