Romare Bearden's (1912-1988):

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Romare Bearden's (1912-1988)
Image Does the painting remind you of anything?
an object? a person? a place?
Mood Is the image somber? angry? a feeling of
gaiety?
Motion Is the painting active or static? Are you
aware of brush strokes, gestures?
Use the five senses as a theme. What are the
people in the painting hearing, smelling,
touching, seeing, tasting? Describe the painting.
Sound Does the image give off a sound? Is it
noisy? quiet?
Color Does one color predominate? Is it a varied
palette?
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Setting the Scene

• Loraine Hansberry ? Harlem Renaissance
• BUT
• A Raisin in the Sun lit. tradition of Harlem
• by addressing
• Racism
• AND
• Discrimination
• And
• Dreams Deferred

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Zora Neale Hurston

• Dust Tracks on the Road

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Background

• Considered one of the most influential writers of
  her timepioneering force in documenting African
  American culture
• Virtually disappeared as a writer until Alice
  Walker reestablished Hurstons writings in the
  60s.
• Writer and folkloristtwin careers

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Autobiography

• Autobiography is a nonfiction account of a
  writers life told in his or her own words.
  Relies on
• feelings about key events and experiences
• social context the attitudes and customs of the
  culture in which the writer lived.

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Purpose

• Share experiences
• Show vitality in personal community
• Explore meaning in personal past
• Identify where dreams begin

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How does Hurstons autobiography document
cultural ideas? Personal ideas?
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What is Hurstons dream? How does she pursue it?
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Is her dream perfect? What obstacles exist?
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Z.Z. Packer

• Well-traveled
• born in Chicago raised in Atlanta and Louisville
• Well-educated
• Yale University
• Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University,
• The Writers' Workshop at Iowa University
• Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere collection of short
  stories recently published
• eight stories
• the antics of a troop of black Girl Scouts who
  encounter some atypical white Girl Scouts
  "Brownies"

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Setting the Scene

• ZZ Packer ? Harlem Renaissance
• BUT
• Browniesliterary tradition of Harlem
  Renaissance
• by addressing
• Racism
• AND
• Reverse Racism
• Unsavory themes Unsavory language

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Brownies

• Read the short story and ANNOTATE as we read
• Make connections
• Make meaning
• Make comments
• Answer questions AS we read
• 1-2 paragraph response to the FINAL question.
• Examples from LIFE and LITERATURE

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Take home Quiz

• Due Thursday