Harlem Renaissance Webquest

A. Click on the link and watch the video: Harlem Renaissance Historical Background Video

B. Access the following link: History of the Harlem Renaissance

1. What was the Harlem Renaissance? Why did African Americans move north?

C. Access the following link: History of the Harlem Renaissance #2

2. During what time period was the Harlem Renaissance?

3. Summarize “Literary Roots” and list three authors from that period.

D. Access the following link and answer the accompanying questions: Langston Hughes  

4. What were some changes that Langston Hughes went through in his family as a child?

E. Access the following link and answer the accompanying questions: 13 Poems

5. Read the poem “Dreams”. What is the poem talking about? Locate one example of figurative language in the poem. What type of figurative language is it?