Harlem Renaissance Poetry

October 30, 2017

Standard: 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3

Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

EQ: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in Harlem Renaissance poetry, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

Starter: 

Meet with your expert group to finalize your Harlem Renaissance presentation.

Make sure everyone is equally prepared to present.

Each group member must speak!

Vocabulary: 

Word: Culture 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

Your Definition: 

Activity: Describe your culture in one sentence.

Activity: 

1.  Presentations

Each group will take turns sharing their information to the class.

For each presentation write down at least three facts.

2.. TPCASTT Review

TPCASTT PDF

I, Too by Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I’ll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody’ll dare

Say to me,

“Eat in the kitchen,”

Then.

Besides,

They’ll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

As a class we will complete the TPCASTT.

3.  Harlem Renaissance Poetry 

With a partner, complete a TPCASTT for From the Dark Tower by Countee Cullen

From The Dark Tower

We shall not always plant while others reap

The golden increment of bursting fruit,

Not always countenance, abject and mute,

That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;

Not everlastingly while others sleep

Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,

Not always bend to some more subtle brute;

We were not made to eternally weep. 

The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,

White stars is no less lovely being dark,

And there are buds that cannot bloom at all

In light, but crumple, piteous, and fall;

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,

And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Closure: 

3-2-1

What are three facts you learned?

What are two strengths of your presentation?

What is one positive reminder to yourself?