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Harlem Renaissance

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1. You will be assigned to a team of 4.

 

2. Choose a name for your team.

 

3. Decide which of the following authors each person will research and write about: Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sterling Allen Brown or Zora Neale Hurston.

 

4. Each team member will make a folder on the desktop to hold all of their notes, documents, and references. 

 

5. Explore the following websites as a group:

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566483/Harlem_Renaissance.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/february98/harlem_2-20.html

http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm

http://www.thirteen.org/harlem/map.html

 

6. As a team, write a brief introduction to your memoirs.  Remember this is not a report; it is your personal memoirs.

 

7. Each person needs to begin researching their author by viewing the following links and researching additional websites and books.  Remember to keep references for everywhere you get information or pictures, including all websites.

Each person will write a biographical sketch of their author, including at least 2 samples of literature written by their author and at least 1 picture of the author.

Langston Hughes:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83

http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm

 

Paul Laurence Dunbar:

http://www.dunbarsite.org/

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/302

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sgo/texts/dunbar2.html

 

Sterling Allen Brown:

http://www.howard.edu/library/reference/guides/SterlingBrown.htm

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99S/blues/Literary/Brown/

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brown/life.htm

 

Zora Neale Hurston:

http://www.zoranealehurston.com/

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/hurston_zora_neale.html

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hurston.htm

 

8. Assemble your memoirs.  Your final project should be typed.  It will have a cover, introduction, and section on each of the authors.  You can include additional information but make sure it is relevant.  Your final project should be free of grammatical errors and eye catching.

 

9. Each student in your team will read one selection of literature from their author to the class.

 

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