Fleeing from Terror: January 29, 2019

Focus: How does early 20th century racial terrorism give us a better/different understanding of the Harlem Renaissance?

1. Warming up with Grammar Focus #5: Parallel Structure

2. Understanding what many Harlem Renaissance artists were fleeing from: Racial lynchings

• Listening to Billie Holiday sing "Strange Fruit" (1939); using the MMM approach to discuss it

• Click on this lynching map to get a sense of scope.

• Click HERE to hear people's stories.

• What does this make you understand better or differently about the Harlem Renaissance?

3. Working on your Harlem Renaissance Mini Projects; make sure I check off your plan if I didn't do so yesterday

HW:
For FRIDAY: Projects are due at the beginning of class this Friday; late projects will lose points in Academic Character Habits.