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Performing Close Readings

Performing Close Readings. ENGL 123 9.11.2013. Harlem Music. What did you notice? What did you observe? . Close readings. Alain Locke’s “Negro Spirituals” Read/review paragraph beginning on 200-201 “It was the great service of Dr. Du Bois…”

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Performing Close Readings

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  1. Performing Close Readings ENGL 123 9.11.2013

  2. Harlem Music • What did you notice? What did you observe?

  3. Close readings • Alain Locke’s “Negro Spirituals” • Read/review paragraph beginning on 200-201 “It was the great service of Dr. Du Bois…” • Select and mark particular passages/words/phrases/details that you notice. • Use those details to write a quick discussion of Locke’s argument in this paragraph about African American spirituals.

  4. Close Reading II • “Jazz at Home” J.A. Rogers • Read first two paragraphs on pgs. 216-217. • Select and mark particular passages/words/phrases/details that you notice. • Use those details to write a quick discussion of Roger’s argument in this paragraph about Jazz in Harlem

  5. Close Reading iii • Claude McKay’s “Negro Dancers” • Read first stanza (I) of McKay’s poem. • Select and mark particular passages/words/phrases/details that you notice. • Use those details to write a quick discussion of McKay’s portrait of the Harlem cabaret scene in the poem.

  6. Connections • What kinds of connections do you see between these texts? • Themes…ideas…arguments…images… • Get into groups of 4, and brainstorm a list of connections between the different texts. Connections between 2 texts are fine, and we can try for connections between all 3 as well.

  7. Introduction to Unit 1 Project • Handout in class/online

  8. Working on Themes • In your same groups, look at the readings you have done so far and brainstorm a set of themes, recurrent images, symbols, arguments, and/or ideas that you can trace between different texts.

  9. Shifting Themes into Questions • “Trees”—the image and symbolism of trees in the poetry and literature of the Harlem Renaissance • Question set: The image of trees—cypress, fruit, palm--is a recurrent image in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Where does this image appear? How does it appear? What kinds of meaning do the poets instill in its portrait? What kinds of ideas of the Harlem Renaissance and the “new intellectual” does this image connect to? • Possible texts: • “Black Finger” by Angelia Grimke (Survey) • “Like a Strong Tree” by Claude McKay (NN) • “Strange Fruit” Billie Holiday song (my own selection) • “Tropics in New York” Claude McKay (NN) • Aaron Douglas Image preceding “Fiction” in (NN)

  10. Practice • Taking the theme of __________ that we brainstormed in class, practice forming your own question set. • Then, choose which texts you might use to answer the question.

  11. Homework • In Survey Graphic • Read/View: • “Harlem Types” by Winold Reiss • “Negro, Art and America” by Albert Barnes • “The art of Ancestors” & “Heritage” • “Four Portraits of Negro Women” • In The New Negro • Read/View: • “The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts” Alain Locke (254-267) • IN BOTH TEXTS, LOOK AT AND THINK THROUGH THE GRAPHICS OF WINOLD REISS AND AARON DOUGLAS. BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS. • PRE ESSAY PLANNING (TYPED—BRING TO CLASS): POTENTIAL QUESTION, POTENTIAL TEXTS, POTENTIAL PASSAGE SELECTION, CONCERNS SO FAR…

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