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Drama Meets History: A Time Travel Adventure to the Harlem Renaissance

Ages 8-12
Live One-Time Class
In this one time class, we will use drama-improvisation, pantomime, and other drama activities to learn about key moments and key figures in American history.

Live video meetings
Meets once
1-9 learners per class
45 min

What's included

1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hours
Grading
included

Class Experience

US Grade 3 - 5
In this 45 minute class session, we will begin with a short warm-up in which students get to use descriptive words to describe qualities of their favorite historical figure. We will act out  the adjectives.  The class will discuss the difference between creative drama and process drama. We will then start our time travel journey to the 1920's Harlem Renaissance by Dr.Triya reading aloud an excerpt of the American Girl Doll book "Claudie". We will define primary sources and discuss their importance. We will review pictures of the Harlem Renaissance from the Library of Congress website.  Students will work in groups and create a skit about the life of Zora Neale Hurston or Louie Armstrong using their life biographies. Students create a human timeline. We will end the class by singing "It's a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.

Learning Goals

Student will identify three key drama strategies: improvisation, pantomime and character development.

Students will explore primary source documents 

Students will work as a whole class and in groups to showcase their drama skills while also having fun.

Other Details

Parental Guidance
The Harlem Renaissance highlights an era in African American history, discussions of access, discrimination, and racial justice in the United States may arise. In order to facilitate this discussion, Dr. Triya draws upon the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) resources for discussing race and anti-racism. NCSS articles can be found here: https://www.socialstudies.org/resources/resources-teaching-about-racism-anti-racism-and-human-rights. Dr. Triya also adhere's to all Outschool guidelines for such topics. Also, the class will emphasize importance of learning how to view history from multiple perspectives using a variety of resources.
Supply List
A one-page hand-out describing the drama skills of improvisation, pantomime, and character development will be used.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
We will refer to the Library of Congress for primary sources documents from the Harlem Renaissance. https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/harlem-renaissance/ As well as their primary source analysis tool: https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/teachers/getting-started-with-primary-sources/documents/Primary_Source_Analysis_Tool_LOC.pdf Zora Neale Hurston Bio: https://kids.kiddle.co/Zora_Neale_Hurston Luis Armstrong Bio: https://kids.kiddle.co/Louis_Armstrong

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Teacher expertise and credentials
Dr. Triya has over 22 years of experience with students ages PK-higher education. She taught history and arts integration to future teachers for 12 years as a professor at California State University, Northridge.  She is the author of 5 books and over 30 articles around social justice, diversity and multiculturalism in education. For more information on Dr.Triya, go to www.drtriya.com.

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