WEEK 14: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 

COURSE BASICS

  • Three Platforms

    • Website

      Weekly agenda, general information, and materials

    • PowerSchool

      Official grade of record

    • Email

      Do not message me through Schoology

  • Additional Support

    • Writing Center: Before School (A266) and During Lunch (A217)

    • English Tutoring: Mon-Thu 1:50-2:50 (A204)

    • Office Hours: Mon-Fri 2:00-2:30 (by appointment)

    • Email: dmcevilly@ecusd7.org

    • E Learning Link

MONDAY

Poetry Slam

Due: Pen Your Own Poem

  • Hard Copy (to submit)

  • Email Attachment (for performance)

TUESDAY

Lecture: Harlem Renaissance

Crash Course: Harlem Renaissance

WEDNESDAY

Poetry Explication

Countee Cullen

  • “Any Human to Another”

Claude McKay

  • “The Tropics in New York”

THURSDAY

Langston Hughes

  • “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Crash Course: Langston Hughes

FRIDAY

Presentation: McEvilly Cup

WEEKEND

Spring Break! Relax.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Syllabus

Class Policies

Study Guide: Semester 1 Final

English Registration: Senior Courses

ACT PREP

What to Know

Practice Tests

Grammar Lessons

WORKSHEETS

Lit Terms

Observation vs. Insight

Annotative Bookmark

Indirect Characterization

Indexed Notes

Distilled Notes

Song of Myself Translation

Poetry Explication

LECTURES AND SELECTIONS

Unit 1: Foundations

Unit 2: Romanticism

Unit 3: New England Renaissance

Unit 4: Research

Unit 5: Division

Unit 6: Realism

Unit 7: Modernism

Unit 8: Postmodernism

Unit 9: Contemporary

  • “Recitatif”

  • Lecture: Fences

  • Full Text: Fences

WORK SAMPLES

Indexed Notes

Distilled Notes

Annotation

Pen Your Own Poem