Wednesday, December 5, 2018

12/6

Make a list of all the required reading you remember from elementary school till now? 

 what tv shows and movies have you watched lately?






Daily show- Oscars so white





https://diversebooks.org/

 #1000blackgirlbooks https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1000blackgirlbooks-social-media-book-drive-movement-black-characters/




Famous writers of Harlem Renaissance-->

NAACP - what is it? what is their mission? Image awards?

1920's the crisis magazine http://www.paperlessarchives.com/the_crisis.html

 current the crisis magazine https://www.thecrisismagazine.com/history

Authors of color

great day in Harlem 

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/amazing-photograph-jazz-history/
great day in Hollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyxR8WJiaI
Context:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/17/515792141/authors-and-illustrators-of-color-accounted-for-22-percent-of-children-s-books

 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/nov/03/black-tv-writers-diversity-atlanta
https://annenberg.usc.edu/sites/default/files/2017/04/07/MDSCI_CARD_Report_FINAL_Exec_Summary.pdf

 Two authors:

One from Harlem Ren- Zora Neale Hurston

"how it feels to be a colored me" 1928

 and one from today

"When they call you a terrorist " by  Patrisse Khan Cullors & Asha Bandele
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

12/3




1. Write your thoughts and reactions to this video
2. How can music be used as a form of protest? How is it used to represent culture or comment on cultural trend?
3. Write down a specific song or songs that show either protest and resistance or celebration for a group of people! How do these artists convey meanings that are bigger than just the music itself? Are they products of their time period? Do they talk back to the government? Who is their message for and why?

Pick a song and play it for your neighbor- listen



Examples:







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Music of the Harlem Renaissance
Purpose of Jazz early (1920s) to simply bring about celebration and change and emotions of having new voices heard through instruments and/or lyrics -- clips of a few songs Let's listen and write down what feelings or ideas these song evoke!
Black and Blue  by Louis Armstrong
Black Butterfly  by Duke Ellington
Then, some songs did start to become political with the rise of the NAACP, and anti-lynching bills
“Strange fruit” by Billie Holliday (late 1930s)
Current adaptation with Andra day video - https://eji.org/videos/andra-day-strange-fruit

Overt time from Celebratory- black and proud

Then also, think about the political nature of music today:
Specifically political nature of Hip Hop /Rap
Look at a few songs as a whole class→
“Harlem Renaissance “ by Immortal Technique

Then, analyze a song with a partner
Recent Music: (count off by 6) -- break down lyrics
How do these relate to themes of harlem R, how do they relate to today? ON CLASSROOM




Noisey- VicelandBay area with G Eazy and E-40
Noisey - chicago with Chief Keef (quality not great) HW on classroom
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

11/28

Harlem Renaissance Intro 
  1. Free write---> (10 min 5 to write 5 to discuss)
    1.  How does art (as in books, poetry, movies, theater, sculptures, painting, photography etc) help people express themselves or the needs of a community or even a country?
    2. Can you think of any Artists or specific poems, books, songs, visual art, photos, etc that stood out in history as art that made a difference for a group of people? Art that represented something bigger than itself?  What about a current artist?
    2. how can art be a form of protest?
    3.  How can art include or exclude groups of people?  
    4. How does art reflect culture? How does culture reflect art?



Part II. (30 min)


II. History of Harlem Renaissance → taking notes about it! https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance
Crash course-
Images of Harlem Renaissance→ look through images as a class .
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
       -Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”


III. Unit 2 pt 2 overview (5-10)


IV. Poetry -- groups get one poem from Harlem Renaissance and one poem from today-- what themes are similar and what are different?


  1. Poetry groups-- or partners (15)

Share your poem - read aloud as a group and the message of the poem.


III. Modern poetry-- (10-15)


“Somewhere in America” spoken word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadZpUJv8Eg&t=112s
“ Still I rise” by Maya Angelou
Closing-- exit on classroom and go over HW
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Monday, October 29, 2018

11/7

Presidents citing the dream


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcRmvfPhx8

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fROb3xKHuQ4

 First generation immigrants citing the american dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D69Il5tTAIU

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/opinion/what-does-america-stand-for-we-asked-teenagers.html
What do you think the dream is to your generation?
What motivates you personally? your friends? your family?


Equity and the dream:
Wealth
Race
Gender
Intersectionality
Remember to think about who has access to the American Dream in the 1920s vs today

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2014/07/14/john-oliver-wealth-gap-american-dream-video_n_5584621.html--? clip--

 1. thoughts and reactions to the video
https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#ccf00377e2ff

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2017/10/17/forbes-releases-36th-annual-forbes-400-ranking-of-the-richest-americans/

 WRITING :


post it planning--> essay support

 Write your thesis on post it one
Write your topic sentences on post it two, three and four

 Work with a partner or group of 3, to start to add evidence, ideas... etc 

 Diana breaks down intro and body paragraphs on the board. 

 Citing evidence. 
More videos and articles for evidence .. intro or body paragraphs, need to cite evidence from the book too.

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Sunday, October 28, 2018

10/29

10/29 English

Journal write: Pick 1 or more of the following:

1.How does music affect you/why is it important to you?
2. What music (genre and/or specific artists) do you enjoy most?
3. If you had to make a soundtrack to your life, what would be on it?
4. How does music affect your generation?what specific artists or songs will be most remembered from the 2010s?
5. When is music used in our culture? What everyday experiences? What significant events use music?











Jay Z lyrics:
Benjamin Franklins filled, folded just for the thrill
Go numb until I can't feel, or might pop this pill
Stock markets just crash, now I'm just a bill
History don't repeat itself it rhymes, 1929 still
Write like Mark Twain, Jay Gatsby, I park things
Yellow cars, yellow gold like Slick Rick


Google classroom:
Comparing two soundtracks:
1974 version: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577/soundtrack

2013 Gatsby Soundtrack:






Modern take on Gatsby’s music article


Creating your own soundtrack for Gatsby (in class- solo or with a partner)
  • Choose 5+ songs
  • Songs can represent the following (characters, themes, specific scenes!) (create cover for your album on one side of paper, and list of songs on the back,2+ sentences next to each song about what each song represents)

EX: Song title by Artist  represents ___________ (theme, character, or scene in novel)

2+ sentence description

Introduce Essay: -- Outline for essay due:
1st Draft Due:
Final Draft Due:
How is the American Dream portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and is that dream still relevant today?
  • Persuasive essay
  • Define the American dream according to the 1920s/F Scott Fitzgerald (use the text or any other reliable sources we’ve looked at in class)
  • Describe if the American Dream is relevant today
  • Use direct evidence from the text to persuade your audience whether or not the american dream exists and/or is fulfilled for any characters in The Great Gatsby
  • Explore what symbols and themes relate to the American Dream
  • Think about the role of gender, race, and class in fulfilling the American Dream

Resources on classroom for the American Dream:









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