1. In Class Focus: What is the Harlem Renaissance All About? Looking at some art: Part II Dream a Little Dream – Louis Armstrong (Link)Link Black and Blue Lyrics – Louis Armstrong (Link)Link Concept Mapping Homework Purchase Great Gatsby for March 16 th Your own Theme for English B – Due Wednesday (March 4 th ) Independent Reading Project Reading done March 16 th Social Change Projects – Due March 18 th and 20 th American Literature – Monday Week Nine

2. What does this painting tell you about the H.R.? What do you think is the theme of the painting? Aspects of Negro Life -Aaron Douglas

3. Concept Mapping Start pulling together this unit: What is the Harlem Renaissance all about? Connect the art, music, poems all together Explain the connection – a sentence connecting Come up with your own format (tree, circle, etc.) American Literature – Monday Week Nine

5. In Class Focus: What is the Harlem Renaissance All About? Black and Blue Lyrics – Louis Armstrong Relate to HR and differences between read and the music? Hip Hop Concept Mapping Social – Change Project Work (10 min) Homework Purchase Great Gatsby for March 16 th Thesis Statements for Wednesday Independent Reading Project Reading done March 16 th Social Change Projects – Due March 18 th and 20 th American Literature – Wednesday Week Nine

6. Write a thesis that pulls together two of the elements of the HR: Langston Hughes in both The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain and Aaron Douglas in Aspects of Negro Life criticize the exclusion of African Americans from American culture, asserting the subsequent need for African Americans to hold a central place in the world of art.

7. (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue – Louis Armstrong Old empty bed...springs hard as lead Feel like ol Ned...wished I was dead What did I do...to be so black and blue Even the mouse...ran from my house They laugh at you...and scorn you too What did I do...to be so black and blue I'm white...inside...but, that don't help my case cause I...can't hide...what is in my face (jazzman sounds) How would it end...ain't got a friend My only sin...is in my skin What did I do...to be so black and blue (instrumental break) How would it end...ain't got a friend My only sin...is in my skin What did I do...to be so black and blue Link

8. Hip Hop Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans. The term rap music is often used synonymously with hip hop music. Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first hip hop single, "Rapper's Delight" is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world (Link).Link American Literature – Wednesday Week Nine

9. Hip-Hop: A Step Forward or Back? Hip-hop adds another dimension and diversity in the African American culture. Is it right to discard or criticize another's culture? The United States is supposed to be an egalitarian society, but how can this be true if discrimination exists in relation to its different subcultures? Rap emerged through the same creative ways as other African American divisions of musical expression (jazz, blues, R&B) and gives the same level of individualistic unity among African Americans, as well as all that enjoy the music. Hip-hop is the way people live. This is what verifies hip-hop as a culture, which deserves to be understood instead of stereotyped.

10. Bill Cosbys Comments on Hip-Hop Culture "Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids – $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' He added: "They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is'... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"

11. What culture do hip-hop/rap artists create? Specifically, does it counter upper middle/middle class white culture? How does this relate to the Harlem Renaissance?

12. Concept Mapping Start pulling together this unit: What is the Harlem Renaissance all about? Connect the art, music, poems all together Explain the connection – a sentence connecting Come up with your own format (tree, circle, etc.) American Literature – Wednesday Week Nine