Fleeing from Terror: January 29, 2018

Focus: What was the role of lynchings in the Harlem Renaissance?

*If you still need to turn in your blue reflection sheet on Making a Way Out of No Way, please do so today.*

1. Warming up with three good things and updating your virtue charts (almost done)

2. Understanding what many Harlem Renaissance artists were fleeing from: Racial lynchings

• Listening to Billie Holiday sing "Strange Fruit" (1939); using the MMM approach to discuss it

• Click on this lynching map to get a sense of scope.

• Click HERE to hear people's stories.

• What does this make you understand better or differently about the Harlem Renaissance?

3. Working on your Harlem Renaissance Little Project; please make sure your project plan is complete, as I will be walking around and conferencing with you on them today

HW:
1. Continue working on any parts of your project that need to be done outside of school. Projects are due at the beginning of class this Friday; late projects will lose points in Academic Character Habits.

2. This Wednesday we will have an open-note quiz on Grammar You Must Know #4: Modifiers.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITTLE PROJECTS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS THIS FRIDAY.