Complicating Your Theme: January 30, 2019

Focus: How can I refine my theme to fortify my personal connection to the Harlem Renaissance?

1. Warming up by perusing the rubric together

2. Setting goals and refining your theme: What complex ideas do you want your classmates to understand better or differently from your project?

Rough theme: Hope is important.

Refined theme: Genuine hope arises from a place of desperation and is the only way to claw yourself out of that dark place.

• I want the tone of my project to be...

• I want the class to understand that this is my theme:

• The title of my project will be..

• By Friday, here are the tasks I need to accomplish to make sure my tone and theme are clear:

• By the end of class today, here's what I will accomplish: 

3. Working on your Harlem Renaissance Little Projects

HW:
1. Continue working on any parts of your project that need to be done outside of school. Projects are due at the beginning of class this Friday; late projects will lose points in Academic Character Habits.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITTLE PROJECTS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS THIS FRIDAY.