1950s Chicago and America

Langston Hughes’ “A Dream Deferred” What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Lorraine Hansberry House

1950s Women’s Fashion

1950s Men’s Fashion

1950s Automobiles

1950s Sit-Coms The Honeymooners (1957) I Love Lucy (1951) Leave it to Beaver (1957)

1950s South Side Chicago

1950s Music and Migration For instance, one of the most popular routes of black migration was from Mississippi to Chicago. The rich tradition of Mississippi Delta blues came with the immigrants and added spice to the cauldron of Chicago music. For instance, Muddy Waters was one of those who settled in Chicago. He began to play jazz clubs with his brand of blues.

1950s Civil Rights Issues What is white flight? What time period did white flight persist? What area did white flight exist in? Afrocentrism vs. Assimilation pages/545.html

Literary devices utilized in A Raisin Allusion - a reference to a person, place, poem, book, or movie outside of the story that the author expects the reader will recognize. Metaphor - a comparison between two different things not using like or as Examples: Time is a thief; Life is a journey Simile - a comparison between two different things using either like or as. Example: I am as hungry as a horse. Symbol - an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, usually an idea or concept; some concrete thing which represents an abstraction. Example: The sea could be symbolic for “the unknown;” since the sea is something which is physical and can be seen by the reader, but has elements which cannot be understood, it can be used symbolically to stand for the abstraction of “mystery,” “obscurity,” or “the unknown.” Verbal Irony - The contrast between what is said and what is actually meant. Example: Mother comes into the TV room and discovers her 11-year-old watching South Park instead of doing his homework, as he was set to a dozen minutes ago. Pointing to the screen she says, "Don't let me tempt you from your duties, kiddo, but when you're finished with your serious studies there, maybe we could take some time out for recreation and do a little math." Foreshadowing - a literary technique used by authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. [2] Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belongingness" and "love", "esteem", "self- actualization" and "self-transcendence" to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through.psychologyAbraham MaslowPsychological Review [2] developmental psychology

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Definition of Hierarchy –

Characters in A Raisin in the Sun At this moment, and what you know of the characters in the play, where would you list each one of them according to Maslow’s Hierarchy. How close or far away to self-actualization are they? And does it change if you look at the family as a group?