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This bundle includes a study guide, a symbolism activity, character chart, context vocabulary activities, and a vocabulary test.

I used this activity as a summative assessment for a 10th grade ELA independent reading project. The document includes directions, a photo example, scoring rubric, peer evaluation form, and templates to print on cardstock that students can cut out and assemble. Essentially, students will cut out and create a figure to represent a main character from their book. Each part of the figure's body represents a different part of the character or a literary element of the book. Teachers can provide me

This bundle includes a Harlem Renaissance poetry/art comparison presentation assignment, a dialectical journal project for The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, two activities for A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, one essay assignment for Fences by August Wilson, and two activities for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

This bundle includes lessons for The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (2017) and Cane River by Lalita Tademy (2001).

This is a study guide for The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead. The cover page provides a visual to illustrate the setting and organization of the text. Students will each be responsible for summarizing and sharing a portion of the text with the class. The study guide helps to capture students' thinking as they read as well as focus on the essential questions for the unit.

Graphic organizers and Quizzes (with keys) for Cane River by Lalita Tademy

This assignment gives students a chance to both practice and then final draft a response to the short essay FRQ for Visual Analysis on the AP Art History test. The assignment has been generalized so that it can be used with any art piece as needed.

Activities to help students understand drama, poetry, and art from the Harlem Renaissance period.

Check for Understanding and Writing activities

Students will create a poetry portfolio including various types of poetry and a reflection on the unit as a whole. This assignment goes along with the grammar of poetry lessons 1, 2, and 3 posted on my products page.

Using a vocabulary list, students will identify which word best fits the sentence provided based on the context of the sentence. This test covers 30 of the 40 words (plus 3 extra credit) on the included vocabulary list for The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead.

After studying poetry from the Harlem Renaissance, students will write a poem that reflects the ideas, themes, or conflicts related to the African American experience during this historical time period. Students will analyze and label their poem for poetic techniques, shifts, theme, tone, and then reflect on the process overall.

Students will choose a poem and a piece of art created by an African American during the Harlem Renaissance and compare the similar themes between the two pieces. Students will examine the poetic and artistic techniques the creators used to convey their ideas to their audiences. As they present, students will also reference and include relevant ideas about art from two essays written by W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes.

Students will analyze the techniques that writers and artists use to convey their ideas about war via poetry and art. Students will choose and compare a poem and a piece of art inspired by war and then present their findings to their classmates.

After studying poetry inspired by war, students will write a poem that reflects the ideas, themes, or conflicts related to war themes and topics. Students will analyze and label their poem for poetic techniques, shifts, theme, tone, and then reflect on the process overall.

This assignment allows students to make test corrections after any AP Art History multiple choice test that they complete in the course. This does not include a multiple choice test itself. The document provides example test corrections including the opportunity for students to engage creatively with the content.

Students will choose a poem and a piece of visual art from the Harlem Renaissance and present the similarities between the two to their classmates. Students will be expected to discuss how historical context influences poetry, visual arts, and other art forms; how an artist’s perspective influences his/her art; and how common themes are represented in a variety of art forms.

The students will review the scope of the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Each small group of students will be responsible for presenting the literary elements from a particular section of the play.

This quick quiz has 9 simple questions to check that students have read chapters 1-10 of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

Multiple choice test over the main events in Part 3 of Lalita Tademy's novel, Cane River