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Lesson Plan for US History/English
6th-10th grades
Time Frame: 3-4 days (90 minute class periods)
Mr. Donn; USA
Harlem Renaissance
Day One:
Introduction:
Provide background/History of the Harlem Renaissance
Day Two
Poetry of Langston Hughes
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Tell how he wrote while listening to jazz
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Play some old (Dixieland) style jazz and have students read along
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Pass out packets of poems
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Tell students that they need to select a poem that they are going to
read to music. They get to select the music.
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Direct students to go through the whole packet and describe in what
style poems were written.
Day Three
Presentation Day:
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Allow each student 1 minute
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If the song selected has words that interrupt the reading, suggest
to students that they try turning down the volumn. (It works.)
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Results in my class: I was surprised by the variety of music selected.
The vast majority of students participated. Those who did not actually select
a poem and set it to music listened during class to those who did. I did
assign a couple of A++, a nearly unheard of success!
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