Complicating Your Theme: February 6, 2020

Focus: How can I refine my theme to fortify my personal connection to the Harlem Renaissance?

1. Warming up with our Valentine of the Day and perusing the rubric together

2. Setting goals and refining your theme: What complex ideas do you want your classmates to understand better or differently from your project?

Rough theme: Hope is important.

Refined theme: Genuine hope arises from a place of desperation and is the only way to claw yourself out of that dark place.

• I want the tone of my project to be...

• I want the class to understand that this is my theme:

• The title of my project will be..

• By Friday, here are the tasks I need to accomplish to make sure my tone and theme are clear:

• By the end of class today, here's what I will accomplish: 

3. Working on your Harlem Renaissance Little Projects

HW:
1. By TODAY: Complete your project plan and share it with me (preferably in person, but electronically works as well).

2. By this FRIDAY, Feb 7, spend 60 minutes with your independent reading book.

• Also, if you have not turned in your third reading log yet or your recorded hours reading, please take care of that ASAP.

3. Ongoing: Start prepping your book talk; make sure you're ready to go on your assigned date.

4. If you are absent, use the checklist and the class blog to make up the work you have missed.