Unit Map & Lesson Plan Sequence

9-12 Social Studies Course Unit (Learning Segment) # of days Instructor (Clinical Intern) Dates
American History American Identity: Culture 10

Unit Objectives (“Students will be able to…”)

-Know- -Do- -Understand- [“Big Picture” Conceptual Goal]
Students will be able to understand how the different Students will be able to identify specific pieces of Students will be able to explain how the ongoing
pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance impacted culture today’s culture that were influenced by the Harlem financial crisis contributed and inhibited the Harlem
for decades to come. Renaissance Renaissance
Unit Essential Question (UEQ) How is today’s society influenced by the music, art, literature, and culture of the Harlem Renaissance?

Overarching Concepts ● Harlem Renaissance ● Great Depression ● Equality

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NC Standards Interdisciplinary NC Standards Inquiry NC Standards

● AH.B.2.2 ● I.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 Great Depression: The The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance: The End Of The Renaissance
Beginning of a Renaissance Music Literature Philosophy
LEQ/LLO LEQ / LLO LEQ / LLO LEQ/ LLO LEQ/ LLO

How did the Great Depression
happen, and how did it immediately
affect society?
Social Studies Vocabulary
How did the music born
during the Harlem
Renaissance affect music
throughout the world, even
so far as the world we know
it today?
Social Studies Vocabulary
What were common themes
in both fiction and non-fiction
literature at the time and how
did they relate to real-world
problems?
Social Studies Vocabulary
What were some of the
major points made by
Harlem-Renaissance era
philosophers?
Social Studies Vocabulary
What sparked the end of the
Harlem Renaissance and how
are we still seeing the
impacts of the culture that it
fostered in today’s society?
Social Studies Vocabulary

1. Volunteerism 1. Syncopatic 1. Recontextualization 1. Pan-Africanism 1. Instability

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

2. Associationalism 2. White Gaze 2. Burgeois 2. Black Modernism 2. Depression
3. Hoovervilles 3. Swing 3. NAACP 3. Propaganda 3. Economy
4. Bonus Expeditionary Force 4. Jazz 4. Racism 4. Individualism
5. Primitivism 5. Liberation
History Content: Key People / Key People /Places / Key People /Places / Events / Key People /Places / Events / Key People / Places /
Places / Events / Terms Events /Terms Terms Terms Events / Terms

1. Rural collapse 1. Amateur Night in Harlem 1. Zora Neale Hurston 1. Langston Hughes 1. Prohibition
2. Gross Domestic Product 2. Jazz Age 2. W. E. B. DuBois 2. Alain Leroy Locke 2. Race Riot
3. Herbert Hoover 3. Chick Webb 3. Langston Hughes 3. The New Negro 3. The Cotton Club
4. The Dust Bowl 4. Swing Music 4. Their Eyes Were 4. Augusta Savage 4. Jim Crow
5. The Great Migration 5. Cotton Club Watching God 5. 5. Segregation
5. Universal Negro 6. Cultural Awakening
Improvement Association
6.

Unit Assessment Individually, students will take on the persona of a Harlem Renaissance journalist who has just been given a piece of
modern-day (post-1980) media (literature, art, song) by a time traveler. Using Canva, students will create a front-page
newspaper article of at least 500 words that will describe the similarities and note the differences between this piece of
modern media and media from the Harlem Renaissance. The article must use at least one piece of visual media from the
time, and include specific names of vocabulary, people, and ideas discussed in the unit.

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