Who Put the Renaissance in the Harlem Renaissance? An Adventure of the American Mind LibraryQuest

Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources

Who put the Renaissance in the Harlem Renaissance?
Exploring African American culture in the 1920's	View All LibraryQuests

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Introduction

The Task

This LibraryQuest is your introduction to the Harlem Renaissance for both English and Social Studies. As you follow this quest you will complete a graphic organizer to keep your information and ideas organized. At the end of the unit you will be using everything you have learned, so it is very important to keep all your information organized.

You will take a virtual tour of Harlem in the 1920s in which you will explore samples of art, writing, and music from the Harlem Renaissance. You will also label important places on a map of Harlem.

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You will be evaluated based on your completion of the graphic organizer.
The scoring rubric below explains how you will be graded.
The maximum number of points for this assignment is 4.

Beginning

Developing

Accomplished

Exemplary

Score

Completion of graphic organizer

Student showed some interest in the LibraryQuest activites, was moderately on task, and completed 1/4 of the graphic organizer.

Student showed interest in the LibraryQuest activites, was mostly on task, and somewhat thoughtfully completed 1/2 of the graphic organizer.

Student was engaged in the LibraryQuest activities, stayed on task, and thoughtfully completed 3/4 of the graphic organizer.

Student was fully engaged in the LibraryQuest activities, stayed on task and thoughtfully completed all of the graphic organizer.

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This LibraryQuest is part of a collection of K-12 primary source-based lessons created by
the Teaching with Primary Sources Northern Virginia Partnership.