Can you smell the markers and glue sticks in the air? Because this history class has been getting pretty creative this past week!
My US History class has been studying the roaring 20's and they were quite interested in the Harlem Renaissance. They came up with an idea to do graffiti like you would see in a New York subway station on the poetry and music lyrics of the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance. It is so fun to see them really connect to a poem or a song that inspires hope for the future and pride in who you are.
I let them do some research on their phones and find a line that really symbolizes what the movement was all about and then we created some graffiti!
My US History class has been studying the roaring 20's and they were quite interested in the Harlem Renaissance. They came up with an idea to do graffiti like you would see in a New York subway station on the poetry and music lyrics of the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance. It is so fun to see them really connect to a poem or a song that inspires hope for the future and pride in who you are.
I let them do some research on their phones and find a line that really symbolizes what the movement was all about and then we created some graffiti!
They really enjoyed being able to create something as a class and I think it turned out well! We hung it on the ceiling for a while and it was really neat to see what quotes inspired them.
In our world history class, we got creative too! The students made a map from 1507 that is called the Waldseemuller map. They had fun seeing how Europeans viewed the world. Then we played pictionary with Enlightenment authors and that was pretty interesting to say the least!
Join us next week for our evil World War 2 leaders card game! Muah Muah Muah...