I. Harlem Renaissance

Using this URL,http://www.42explore2.com/harlem.htm, locate the following details about the Harlem Renaissance:

Who?

What?

Where? (location(s))

When?

Why?

Locate Harlem on the map

http://www.aviewoncities.com/nyc/nycmap.htm

II. Write a biographical sketch of Langston Hughes. First you need to go to the scholastic website on “How to write a biographical sketch” http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/biograph/biography_own.htm

Second, use the above questions to plan your research.

Then research using the following URLs:

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/writers/hughes/people_1

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/go.cgi

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/cora/hughes_timeline_text.html

III. Analyze the following poem:

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
  of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
  down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn
  all golden in the sunset.

Who is the subject of the poem? What is the poem’s message? What do you think is the author’s purpose for writing this poem? Who is his audience?

IV. Check out the site: http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07030C71