Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Kansas Poets
An overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for Kansas includes information on the featured poets (William Stafford and Langston Hughes) and poems specifically about Kansas.
Read Works
Read Works: The Struggle for Equality
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about heroic African Americans including Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, and Barbara Jordan. A question sheet is available to help students build...
Read Works
Read Works: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Voice
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on theme where students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes to find examples of author's voice in poetry, and the book The Random House Book of Poetry for Children to...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Poetry: Varying Views of America
Lesson allows students to examine the various views of American perspective through studying three poems by diverse poets: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, and "On the Pulse of Morning"...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Mother to Son
A learning module that begins with "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Thank You Ma'am
A learning module that begins with the short story "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra! Extra! Harlem Renaissance Tribune
From writing with Langston Hughes to dancing with Bojangles, explore 1920-30 Harlem and publish a newspaper about the arts and entertainment of this cultural renaissance that brought new energy and sound to the world.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Introduction to a Raisin in the Sun
This lesson is an introduction to the play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, which is set in Chicago in the 1950s. It features links to two of Langston Hughes's poems that influenced the title of the play and a Lorraine...
Other
Reading Woman: Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
In this collection of book reviews, explore key works by writers from the Harlem Renaissance period. Authors include Dorothy West, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and others.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: African American Playwrights
Learn about the drama of five African American playwrights: James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and Ntozake Shange.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: "Letter From Spain"
This site from Modern American Poetry provides a review of the famous poem by Langston Hughes. The information that is provided is somewhat brief, but factual, and worth checking out.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literature Library: "Great Expectations" Study Guide [Pdf]
Great study guide for Charles Dickens's novel, "Great Expectations." Before reading the book, check out an author biography, vocabulary, and pre-reading activities and questions. Also, use the guide's brainstorming activities to help you...
Yale University
Open Yale Courses: Modern Poetry
Twenty-five lectures from Yale course, ENGL 310: Modern Poetry, with a syllabus, handouts, reading assignments, activities, and a final exam study guide. Lectures are available as text transcripts, audio, and video. Poets and topics...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Amazing Americans
Checklist of inventors, politicians, performers, activists and ordinary people who made America. Meet Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Buffalo Bill Cody and dozens of other famous and interesting American adventurers, presidents,...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Amazing Americans
Checklist of inventors, politicians, performers, activists, and ordinary people who made America. Meet Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Buffalo Bill Cody and dozens of other famous and interesting American adventurers, presidents,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: The Harlem Renaissance
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on The Harlem Renaissance, the period between the end of WW I through mid 1930s when African Americans were recognized for their literature, music, and art. It discusses their themes and lists...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lorraine Hansberry: "A Raisin in the Sun": Analyzing Theme
In this interactive lesson, discover how literary techniques like setting, characterization, and conflict contribute to the overarching theme of a text. Through analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play A Raisin in the Sun, explore...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Art of the Metaphor
How do metaphors help us better understand the world? What makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions in this video with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros
By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Sterling A. Brown (1901 1989)
Resource includes theme, perspective, form, style and audience of this famous Harlem Renaissance author's work.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Image of Africa in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Overview of African Americans and their relationship to Africa. a myth which was embraced by the Harlem Renaissance.
University at Buffalo
Circle Association: Harlem Renaissance History and Links
This resource from the Circle Association at the University of Buffalo gives background on the origins of the Harlem Renaissance and highlights its most famous authors.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: Resource Guide for Elem School Teachers [Pdf]
Explore a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help elementary school students discover the diversity in African-American poets and create their own voice in poetry. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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