- 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-
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissanceCrash 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?
- 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
