Harlem Renaissance
Describe the Great Migration
What is African Americans move north for better job opportunities and to live their version of the "American Dream."
Modernism replaced this way of thinking
What is idealism?
This tradition was used for story-telling for Native Indians
What is oral tradition
Langston Hughes wrote poetry to do what?
What is encourage his own people to do better and be better.
Who is Claude McKay speaking of when he says this, "..While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs"
Who is the white police.
Why was this considered a "Renaissance?"
What is a renaissance is when culture and ways of thinking make a drastic change toward progressive thinking
What is experimentation?
Stories passed down from generation to generation in order to teach a lesson
What is folkore
Zora Hurston was an early memoir writer who felt this way about her own people.
Respect towards her people but also believed that she was no different than anyone else and did not want handouts due to her skin color.
What is the message of Harlem, written by Lanston Hughes?
What is that if you do not follow your dreams and see them through, or not have one at all, it can overpower a person and make the person weak or never successful at anything.
Who was directly affected by the Harlem Renaissance and why was it called as such?
Who is The African American culture and it was called that due to the major changes in their social movement (writing, fashion, art, way of living and thinking)
Poetry writing challenged this way of thinking during the modernism movement.
What is conventionality and structure
This specific folktale involves characters who engage in deceit, violence, or dark magic.
What is a trickster tale
This writer tells people to "jump at the sun" and go for your dreams no matter what!
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
DAILY DOUBLE: Pick a poem written by Langston Hughes, not Harlem, and describe the message behind it.
Must have a concrete message about I, Too, Negro Speaks of Rivers, or the Weary Blues
What is mass media expanded, factory work, and Sigmund Freud?
These major events happened to Americans, causing the modernism movement
What is World War 1 and the Great Depression
This creation myth believed that the natural cause of Indians was a catastrophe based on murder and torture.
What is the Aztec creation Myth
This writer was known as "The Voice of America" and "The Poet of the Common People." He wrote poems based on personification
Who is Carl Sandburg
The Harlem Renaissance is responsible for this major movement in music. Genre and instruments
What is Jazz and the use of a piano for styles other than classical music?
Daily DOUBLE: Describe how Modernism, in all of its forms, have changed the American culture throughout history
What is the Civil Rights movement, objective art, artistic freedom, stories about real emotions and daily life, media platforms, etc.
Describe the creation myth of Christians and how is contrasts with the Native Indian Creation stories
Answer must include two differences between the two. (Gods, social values, cultural details)
Compare and Contrast the writing styles of Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and James Johnson.
Two similarities and 2 differences between an of the authors.