Cycle Two: How does identity shape history?
Essential Questions:
What is the most important legacy of the Harlem Renaissance?
How do modern-day historians form a compelling written argument?
How does one’s experiences and identity shape their interpretation of historical events?
Ideas to explore
Race, gender, class
Power dynamics
Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on American culture
Reading primary and secondary sources like a historian
Non- Fiction circle texts:
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Best we Could Do by Thi Bui
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Project(s):
Harlem Renaissance Exhibition
Nonfiction Literature Circle