1. Harlem Renaissance Poets

2. background http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharle m1.html

3. Langston Hughes http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83

4. Listen to Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” http://www.poets.org/vi ewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5722 Listen to Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” http://www.poets.org/vi ewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5722 http://www.poets.org/vi ewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5722 http://www.poets.org/vi ewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5722

5. Hughes Packet Note the following for each poem: Read and annotate Analyze speaker, audience, purpose Analyze the use of figurative language Analyze tone (DIDLS) Analyze theme *Example: “The Weary Blues” http://cai.ucdavis.edu/uccp/workingweary.html http://cai.ucdavis.edu/uccp/workingweary.html

6. Blues Music The blues lyric structure consists of two different lines, with the first line being repeated to form a three-line aab pattern. The following lines from Howlin’ Wolf’s 1951 recording of “How Many More Years” demonstrate this structure:Howlin’ Wolf a. How many more years do I got to let you dog me around? a. How many more years do I got to let you dog me around? b. I just as soon be dead, sleeping six feet in the ground. Source: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561248/Blues.ht ml

7. Duke Ellington http://www.redhotjazz.com/duke.html Ella Fitzgerald http://museum.media.org/ella/misc/listen.html http://museum.media.org/ella/misc/listen.html

8. Assignment Use one of the following poems as a model to write your own poem: ◦“Theme for English B” ◦“Weary Blues” ◦“Negro Speaks of Rivers” ◦“I, Too”

9. Paul Laurence Dunbar http://www.dunbarsite.org/

10. Listen to “Paradox” http://www.dunbarsite.org/gallery/ThePara dox.asp

11. Claude McKay http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/2 5 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/2 5