Process
You must
- choose your team. (3 students total)
- identify what steps are necessary to accomplish the research.
- decide how to divide the research.
- decide on a format for completing the research.
- identify the components of a good Video Podcast:
View sample Video Podcast here.
- decide what roles/assignments/equipment are needed to accomplish the task of producing a Video Podcast.
- decide how to assign responsibilities of each area to be covered: Writers, Musicians, Artists
Remember, your quest is to create a 4 minute Video Podcast about the Harlem Renaissance.
Access the following online resources to develop your background information for the Video Podcast:
- A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html)
The Library of Congress offers this annotated collection of Library of Congress resources related to the Harlem Renaissance, included digital materials collections, lesson plans, learning page activities, and exhibits.
- The Harlem Renaissance Collection
(http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/harren/HARREN.HTM)
This website provides a very brief historical overview of the time period and includes links to noted leaders, writers, and entertainers.
- Rhapsodies in Black: The Harlem Renaissance
(http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html)
This website describes the development of the Harlem Renaissance and noted examples of art, poetry, and literature.
- Harlem 1900–1940: An African-American Community
(http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/Harlem/)
This exhibition website, from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, includes a timeline of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Drop Me Off in Harlem: Exploring the Intersections
(http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/)
This ARTSEDGE website explores the ways that different art forms and social movements interacted and flourished during the Harlem Renaissance.
- ArtCyclodedia: The Harlem Renaissance
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/harlem-renaissance.html
Chronological listing of Harlem Renaissance artists with links to other websites & articles.
- Harlem Renaissance: Online NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/february98/harlem_2-20.html
Archive of a 1998 feature on the Harlem Renaissance artistic & literary movement. Includes discussion of economic and political influences.
- Poets.org: A brief guide to the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5657
This site sponsored by the Academy of American Poets features a brief summary of the Harlem Renaissance, biographies, and selected poems of that time period.
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