Unit Map & Lesson Plan Sequence

9-12 Social Studies Course Unit (Learning Segment) # of days Instructor (Clinical Intern) Dates
American History American Identity:The Harlem 10
Renaissance
Unit Objectives (“Students will be able to…”)
-Know- -Do- -Understand-
Students will be able to understand how the different Students will be able to identify specific pieces of Students will be able to understand the
pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance impacted culture today’s culture that were influenced by the Harlem politico-economic factors that contributed to the
within the Black community and beyond for decades to Renaissance downfall of the Harlem Renaissance
come.
Unit Essential Question (UEQ) How is today’s society affected by the music, literature, and philosophy of the Harlem Renaissance?
OR
Learning Objective (ULO)
Overarching Concepts ● Harlem Renaissance ● Great Depression ● Racism
see NC Standards Unpacking Document
NC Standards Interdisciplinary NC Standards Inquiry NC Standards
● AH.B.2.2 ● 1.1.4
● AH.G.1.2 ● I.1.2
● AH.H.3.2 ● I.1.3
LESSON 1 LESSON 2 LESSON 3 LESSON 4 LESSON 5
The Roaring 20s: The Beginning of The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance: The End Of The Renaissance
an Era Music Literature Philosophy
Lesson Essential Question (LEQ) LEQ / LLO LEQ / LLO LEQ/ LLO LEQ/ LLO
or Learning Objective (LLO)
How did the financial boom of the How do we still see the What were some common What were the major points What two major events that
Roaring 20s give way for the influences of music born themes in both fiction and made by the Harlem worked in tandem to spark
Harlem Renaissance to begin? during the Harlem non-fiction literature at the Renaissance-era the end of the Harlem
Renaissance today? time and how did they relate philosophers? Renaissance?
to real-world problems?
Social Studies Vocabulary Social Studies Vocabulary Social Studies Vocabulary Social Studies Vocabulary Social Studies Vocabulary
1. Electrification 1. Syncopatic 1. Recontextualization 1. Pan-Africanism 1. Instability
2. Mass production 2. White gaze 2. Bourgeois 2. Black Modernism 2. Depression
3. Creativity 3. Swing 3. Primitivism 3. Propaganga 3. Race Riot
4. Economy 4. Jazz 4. Racism 4. Individualism 4. Economy
5. Liberation

ASU Dept. of History· History Education Program· 2022-2023

History Content: Key People / Key People /Places / Events Key People /Places / Events / Key People /Places / Events / Key People / Places / Events /
Places / Events / Terms /Terms Terms Terms Terms
1. Automotive industry 1. Amateur Night in Harlem 1. Zora Neale Hurston 1. NAACP 1. Prohibition
2. World War 1 2. Jazz Age 2. W.E.B DuBois 2. Langston Huges 2. Jim Crow
3. Calvin Coolidge 3. Cotton Club 3. Langston Huges 3. Alain Leroy Locke 3. Segregation
4. Louis Armstrong 4. Their Eyes Were Watching 4. The New Negro 4. Cultural Awakening
God
5. Universal Negro
Improvement Association

Unit Assessment Individually, students will take on the persona of a journalist from the early-1960s who has been tasked with writing the last
great piece of media on the life and death of one of three Harlem Renaissance-era philosophers: Alain Locke, Zora Neale
Hurston or W.E.B. DuBois. They will create either a 1,000 word newspaper article or a five minute video on the
philosopher, covering their birth, childhood, death, notable works, and their political, social, and racial philosophies. They
must include at least three sources from their own in-class research.

ASU Dept. of History· History Education Program· 2022-2023