During period 3 please complete the following tasks:
1. Work on completing your baseline play project: the sketch. Try to conclude your script if you have not already done so. Turn in (submit) for credit.
2. Research Lorraine Hansberry at this link (read the article). Be able to explain what important impact she had on American literature. What did she accomplish in her short lifetime? Take notes in your journal.
3. Please read this poem by Langston Hughes: Harlem. Hansberry is using Hughes' poem as an allusion for the title of her work. As you read the play, consider why she decided to do this.
4. Research the setting of A Raisin in the Sun. The south side of Chicago in 1959. Something important happened just a year or two before Hansberry wrote her play. Look here to find out what:
1957.
1. Work on completing your baseline play project: the sketch. Try to conclude your script if you have not already done so. Turn in (submit) for credit.
2. Research Lorraine Hansberry at this link (read the article). Be able to explain what important impact she had on American literature. What did she accomplish in her short lifetime? Take notes in your journal.
3. Please read this poem by Langston Hughes: Harlem. Hansberry is using Hughes' poem as an allusion for the title of her work. As you read the play, consider why she decided to do this.
4. Research the setting of A Raisin in the Sun. The south side of Chicago in 1959. Something important happened just a year or two before Hansberry wrote her play. Look here to find out what:
1957.
Please continue to research and find information about this time period. Some questions to help guide your research are:
Images of the civil rights movement
Images of “the children’s crusade" of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the civil rights movement
- What were the social, economic, political and educational expectations and opportunities for African Americans at this time?
- What advances had been made in civil rights?
- What significant changes will occur in America during the years between 1950's and 1965?
Images of the civil rights movement
Images of “the children’s crusade" of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the civil rights movement
Period 4: We'll pick up the play from the library and begin reading it.
HOMEWORK: None. Please bring your play scripts back to our next class.
HOMEWORK: None. Please bring your play scripts back to our next class.
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