Mind Tools for ekit

Another technology that could be used with my ekit lesson could be Google earth and Sketchup.  Obviously the teacher would need show how to use both the Google Earth and Sketchup.  Once the students knew the basics of both programs then we could drive into the lesson.
In learning the theory about the time of the Harlem Renaissance, the students could get on Google Earth and look at Harlem now and as far back as the satellites have pics.  We could talk about what it meant to live there and how Harlem played a role in what Langston Hughes wrote in his poetry.  Then I would have the students build their version of Harlem during Harlem Renaissance.  Also the students would need to explain why they picked and made the structures.  The objective would be that the students not only understand the poems but use their own thoughts to interpret what Langston Hughes.

LRC Project

Grade Level: 11

Language Arts: Ethnic American Writers

Objective: Analyze and breakdown meaning of poems using the background theory of era and writer.

Materials needed: 
From Steely Library:
The Language of Literature: Lesson Plan; 
The Language of Literature:Integrated assessment; 
The Language of Literature:Transparencies; 
The Language of Literature: Audio Library. 
From the Discovery Education:
Picture of Langston Hughes
Picture of Langston Hughes with other Harlem Renaissance writers
Video: Expression and Decline of the Harlem Renaissance

Use the pictures and video from the Discovery Education website to establish background on the era and the Harlem Renaissance.  Let the students listen to some of Langston Hughes poems from the audio CDs then have them write what they think he means using what they are learned about the era and the author.  After use the transparencies and activities from the Lesson Plan text to breakdown and discuss the poems and their meanings.  Then use integrated assessment to see how well the students understood the tasks given.



The picture below is of the student version of the text book.