Lesson Plan

Highlights of Modern American Family Art and Literature

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Learners develop imagery in literary and art works. They discuss Jacob Lawrence's painting, the "Tombstones, 1942", which conveyed overcrowded tenements and families living in Harlem (New York, New York). They design picture stories comparing overcrowded tenements then and now.

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Grade
7th - 8th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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Project-Based Learning
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