Research Projects: Slavery by Another Name, The Great Migration, & The Harlem Renaissance
Realism came out of a need to accurately represent what was actually happening in our country which included the horrors of slavery and the Civil War.
Students will watch part of the PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name which covers the period of time immediately following the Emancipation Proclamation. Most Americans believe that freedom came easily and instantaneously after Lincoln’s speech, but that was not the case. Through convict leasing and peonage, alternative forms of slavery lasted through the 1940’s in this country.
Isabel Wilkerson wrote The Warmth of Other Suns which chronicles the Great Migration out of the south to New York & the east coast, Chicago & the Midwest, and LA & the west. The Great Migration led to the Harlem Renaissance.
All of these topics will be our primary focus for research projects in coming weeks.
Update: Weeks 7-9
Students will be introduced to the Harlem Renaissance & will choose topics for research projects which will culminate in an annotated bibliography.
Borger: Literature & Language 3 