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STEP #2
KNOW THE PERIOD
What does it mean, “KNOW THE PERIOD”?
To know and appreciate a poet one must look at the place and time in which a poet wrote.
If we as people are the product of our environments, why would it be different for your poet?
What is the purpose of this research?
The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between the poet’s work and the political, social and economic conditions
in which the poet’s work came out of.
The below 3 areas are examples of information required to be in this part of your research paper:
Political Conditions
1. What were the important political issues of the time (e.g. segregation, voting rights, prohibition)
2. Who were the presidents during this time – were they well-liked or divisive figures
3. What were the big political movements of the time (e.g. Anti-war, Labor rights, Civil rights, Human rights, Socialism, Communism, Gay rights)
4. Was there political stability or instability in the United States (e.g. was there peace, or was there a war or potential conflict on the horizon)
5. Was the government a positive or negative presence in the average American’s life
Social Conditions:
1. What were the social conditions like during the poet’s life
2. Were there any discrimination issues that affected the poet (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender)
3. What were the big social movements of the time (e.g. black power, feminist, environmental)
Economic Conditions:
1. What were the important economic issues of the time (e.g. the Great Depression, drought, stock market crash, unemployment)
2. Was there economic instability
3. Was there economic inequality
INTERNET LINKS:
FIND YOUR POET'S HISTORY:
A GUIDE TO THE HR
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html
HR WEBSITES:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson252/websites.html
HR MUSIC:
http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/stoga/dept/Barry/Barry4/music/Harlem%20Renaissance%20Music%20page.htm
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART: HR
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/african_american_4.html
HR ART – JACOB LAWRENCE:
http://www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/index.cfm
POETS OF THE HR:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poet.period.1.html?period=Harlem%20Renaissance
DROP ME OFF IN HARLEM:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/artsedge.html
RECONSTRUCTION – THE SECOND CIVIL WAR
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ODESSEY: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
RHAPSODIES IN BLACK – HR HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html
HISTORY OF JIM CROW:
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/
REMEMBERING JIM CROW: RADIO WORKS
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/
THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE WEBSITES
NET TREKKER
(user name: njhs...password: eagles)
HISTORY MATTERS
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESEARCH PAGE
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
HISTORY OF COMMUNISM
WORLD WAR ONE
WORLD WAR TWO
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EVENTS IN AMERICA
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
PORTALS TO THE WORLD
BEST OF HISTORY (A LIST OF HISTORICAL WEBSITES)
FIND A SEARCH ENGINE:
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