Presenter view · The Literature of the Harlem Renaissance · Grades 5–8 · ELA
Voice & Verse
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Materials
- Student handouts
- Access to exhibition’s Harlem in Words poetry workshop
- Optional: printed or projected excerpts from public domain Harlem Renaissance texts
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Your voice on paper 5 min
Write on the board: “What does your voice sound like on paper?” Ask students to write for 90 seconds — anything, no rules. Then ask: “Does your writing sound like YOU, or does it sound like how you think you’re supposed to write?” This is exactly the question Harlem Renaissance writers were asking.