Day: March 20, 2017

Today’s workplaces require that meet the demand for a new type of audience that has come to expect easy to access digital information. This requires that we become familiar with tools that make us adept to communicate through the use of captivating images and digital media.

The Harlem Renaissance Research Project is a wonderful opportunity to learn to create a visually stimulating presentations and familiarize ourselves with tools to communicate our messages and learning effectively.  Your final project will be evaluated by a real audience that will include peers who like you demand high quality visuals and audio that keep them interested.

Below is a menu of a few of the favorite tools that are available. CHOOSE WISELY!

The tool you choose should be compatible with you and your partner’s vision, intent, and skill.  DO NOT select something that will make life more complicated than it needs to be.  There is nothing worse than spending more time trying to figure out the tech than you do on the research and content.

I also recommend that you visit youtube to see some tutorials and samples.  For those of you who are not feeling adventurous, feel free keep it simple with Google Slides an then use a screen cast software to add audio.

Whatever the means, the point is for you to showcase your ideas and to have a tool that you can use later to showcase your ideas and basic tech know-how.

Google Slides – create and edit presentations online, for free.

Prezi: Presentation Software | Online Presentation Tools

PowToon | Create Animated Videos for Work or Play

Screencast-O-Matic

Movenote

Monday:

Unit Goal: After researching Harlem Renaissance artists and writers, students will create a presentation which highlights the movement’s contributions to discourse on American EQUALITY.

Objective: After Close Reading Langston Hughes’s poem “Theme for English B” students will analyze point of view and tone to convey theme by writing an analytical summary.

Agenda:

1.  Table of Contents Notebook Set Up: 3.20-4.7 .  Item 3.20 Langston Hughes Background & “Theme for English B”
2. While watching Background Video complete Author Background Circle Map and Paragraph Frame
3. Close Read “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes in PODS
4. Individually: Complete Analytical Summary

Tuesday:

Unit Goal: After researching Harlem Renaissance artists and writers, students will create a presentation which highlights the movement’s contributions to discourse on American EQUALITY.

Objective: After analyzing imagery and symbols in Lois Maillou Jones’ “Ascent from Ethiopia” in a coffeehouse discussion students will identify themes by writing a practice thesis.

Agenda:

1. 3-2-1 Check In
2. Check Out The Great Gatsby 
3. Introduction to Modernism

HW.  Watch Video and write background paragraph on F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wednesday: Collaboration Day Schedule

Unit Goal:After reading and analyzing  Modernist literature & F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, students will write an essay that analyzes the author’s use of symbolism and archetypes to convey Modernist theme(s) and aesthetic features.

Objective: Explore Aesthetic and Philosophical Features in American Modernist Literature

Agenda:

1. Author Background Circle Map and Paragraph Frame: Homework Check
2. Features of Modernism in The Great Gatsby
3. Annotation Guides for novel’s exposition -1.) Identify and describe the novel’s narrator.  a.) How does Fitzgerald introduce a disillusioned tone in Ch. 1-2 through the narrator’s point of view? b.)Why does the term unreliable narrator accurately describe Nick Carraway? 2.) How does the narrator describe the novel’s protagonist, Jay Gatsby?  Does he admire Gatsby or find him repulsive? 3.) How does the narrator reveal his feeling about The Buchanan’s through the mood of his first meeting with them?

HW.   Summarize Chapters of The Great Gatsby by Tuesday, March 28

Thursday: Harlem Renaissance Projects Task 1 Day 1

Unit Goal:  After researching Harlem Renaissance artists and writers, students will create a presentation which highlights the movement’s contributions to discourse on American EQUALITY.

1. Dream Deferred Quick Analysis
2. Harlem Renaissance Project Instructions:

   I. Pre-Reading: Research Step1: Choose a subject

   II.  Reading:  Webquest on Element and Personality of the Movement & Find Credible Sources

   III.  Post Reading: Research Step 2: Write a background paragraph on subject & Works Cited Page

HW.   Summarize Chapters of The Great Gatsby by Tuesday, March 28

Friday: Harlem Renaissance Projects Task 1 Day 2

Unit Goal:  After researching Harlem Renaissance artists and writers, students will create a presentation which highlights the movement’s contributions to discourse on American EQUALITY.

1. Dream Deferred Quick Analysis
2. Harlem Renaissance Project Instructions:

   I. Pre-Reading: Research Step1: Choose a subject

   II.  Reading:  Webquest on Element and Personality of the Movement & Find Credible Sources

   III.  Post Reading: Research Step 2: Write a background paragraph on subject & Works Cited Page

HW.   Summarize Chapters of The Great Gatsby by Tuesday, March 28