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- 1st - 2nd
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Students explore the concept of slavery and the development of the blues in music, art, and literature. This is a highly creative multidisciplinary unit for younger students to gain an understanding of African-American history. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read selected poems and listen to jazz that have their roots in the Harlem Renaissance. They discuss the similarities and differences of themes in the works of different poets and composers. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Studnets explore Marylanders, Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the impact of WWII on the development of jazz music and consider how jazz music helped to boost morale of both soldiers and those left at home. They identify the function of jazz as a cultural export and discuss its worldwide effects. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Working in small teams, students analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching campaign spearheaded by African-Americans. The information each team culls from the documents is then placed on a large class timeline. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop an appreciation for modern black music from a historical, political and lyrical perspective. They examine the political and the historical surge of the civil rights movement of the 1960's and how this surge directly or indirectly affected black musicians, who in turn affected the black population of America during this period. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the life and works of Langston Hughes. In groups, they research the characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance and how Hughes' poems relate to the era. They use the themes in his writings and relate it to the Great Migration after the Civil War and the Japanese-American experience during World War II. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching campaign spearheaded by African-Americans. This lesson focuses on Billie Holiday's signature song, "Strange Fruit," a protest song Lewis Allen (Abel Meeropol) wrote in 1938 about the ongoing and intransigent problem of lynching in the American South. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students gain awareness of the importance of jazz as a form of American cultural expression and influence in the world. They experience different forms of jazz. They review how the war experience forever changed the jazz community. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students investigate the cause of racism and lynching during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and compare them to what types of hate crimes exist today. Students work in groups to discuss researched material. Full Review »
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