Assignment Templates For Jazz Time Tale

For the template on the left the assignment involves "finding the evidence." I give still images references from the movie. On the right it's a straight comprehension assignment with movie time stamp clues.

Here is where you will find a previous post with part 1 of the movie

Here is where you will find a previous post with part 2 of the movie

Assignment Template For Martin's Big Words

Besides answering the question, one could request that the response be answered in dialogue so students could practice using quotation marks.

Assignment Template For Harlem Characteristics Poster

This works like the previous post. In this case I assembled the poster from various images I found online

Assignment Template For Famous People And Sites In Harlem Map

Through scanning I posterized a map I purchased of Famous Sites And People in Harlem from Ephmera Press. I created a template in word for students to complete by examining the map. I did it in a who, where format. If computers are used the students can type directly into word, otherwise it can be done by examining a stand alone poster

Assignment Template For 1891 Real Estate Map Of Harlem

I was able to reconstruct a poster sized real estate map of Harlem, circa 1891 using the great collection of maps that the David Rumsey site has. This one (just a small section shown) was created by George Washington Bromley. Using the map, either from a digital copy on their computers, or through the examination of a hard copy, the students were to complete the assignment created as a template in Word

Assignment Template For Google Map Of Harlem

I had created a large map of a section of Harlem by taking screen shots of Google map areas. Then I assembled them by layering them in a 6 by 5 foot large image in PhotoShop. After viewing a discussing, the students had to complete the template. With classes that had laptops they were able to use the image I had transferred to reference. Otherwise a large display version could be referenced for group activities

Jack Johnson: Graphic Organizer

An inspiration graphic organizer I developed with some 6th graders as we watched Unforgivable Blackness

Duffield Place: Follow The Drinking Gourd

from 5/22/06 from pseudo-intellectualism

Yesterday's NYTimes had an article on the possible destruction of downtown Brooklyn properties via eminent domain. These properties may have been stops on the Underground Railroad. The accompanying photo is of one of those properties at 233 Duffield Street. I set it within an historic photo (from the nypldigital collection) of the symbolic sale of an escaped slave at Beecher's Plymouth Church (an underground site) in Brooklyn Heights. Here's a pdf packet of articles on the Underground Railroad in New York City as well as some pages from a really good site on Iowa "stations".Here's a slide show composed of images from Dover's Underground Railroad coloring book combined with Richie Haven's version of "Follow The Drinking Gourd." The pdf packet includes an explanation of drinking gourd's lyrics (on pages 52-53).

Negro League Scrapbook: Lesson Plan

Pictured are the 2006 Hall Of Fame inductees that Carol Boston Weathrford mentions in the previous post: Effa Manley, Jose Mendez and Biz Mackey
The lesson plan from Carole's site

LESSON PLAN A Negro League Scrapbook by Carole Weatherford Boyds Mills Press, 2005 Vocabulary
segregation, barnstorm, clown teams, color barrier
Discussion Questions
1. How did Negro League players feel about being barred from the major leagues?
2. How did the retired Negro League players feel when the major leagues began signing black players?
3. Who were the greatest Negro League players?
Activities
1. Create names for pitches like Satchel Paige did.
2. Draw a Hall of Fame plaque for a Negro League player.
3. Design a poster for a Negro League game.
4. Write road diary for a Negro League player on a barnstorming team.
5. Learn about baseball statistics.http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/teachers/lesson1.html
6. Study newspaper, radio and TV sports reports to find synonyms for "defeat." List those synonyms.
7. During segregation, African-Americans were barred from many restaurants. Thus, when Negro League teams traveled they dined in black-owned restaurants, residents’ homes or on team buses. What types of foods might they have prepared and eaten on the bus? Write a menu and recipes for a meal that does not have to be heated or refrigerated. You may include canned foods and staples. Remember that many convenience foods used today were not available in the first half of the 20th century.
Online Resources
Negro League Baseball Players Association and Museum www.nlbpa.org

Harlem On My Mind: Documents

from 12/28/05 from pseudo-intellectualism

It's taken me a while- a lot of learning through lesson's learned in REAL settings- but I've figured out a pretty organized way of supporting project based learning with digital resources. I'll create a distinct folder with resources for viewing (film, archived websites, music, recorded speech or oral history, and primary documents). The folder can be transferred through the school's server (if possible) or to individual computer via firewire or my latest technique, via DVD's. The DVD technique preserves the original documents by forcing the kids to rename files. It also doesn't require the clean up mess and hard drive space maintenance problems. The only drawback is the time in reproducing the DVD's and the cost. I recently bought a DVD duplicator that helps with the time and DVDs can be bought for as little as $.25 now. Back to technique: Inside of that original transferred folder, in a subfolder, will also be microsoft word, powerpoint and quicktime and imovie templates for use as teacher assigments for assessments and start off points for independent research and project building. I might also provide photoshop documents, with printable "slices" for classroom or library poster construction (the halls can be used as well). This provides a visual for the students to use as a baseline for understanding. Projects can also be suggested from such posters. On this post I'll supply some documents in pdf formats. Here's a first hand account of Harlem History from famed San Francisco editor, Thomas Fleming. Here is one history tour of Harlem done by the great folks at forgotten-ny. Here's a second forgotten-ny tour.

Cab Calloway: Tech Literacy Connection: Vocabulary In Context

An interesting assignment is to have kids listen to some Cab's
great slang filled songs and offer her their own translation of them. If they can't figure it out directly from the context they can use Cab's online jive dictionary

Hep-hep! De-boodle-de-ack, de-boodle-de-ackasaki!
Hep-hep! Oh, rang-tang, te-dah-dah,
Hep-hep! Gonna tell you 'bout the jumpin' jive,
Hep-hep! Jim, jam, jump, the jumpin' jive;
Hep-hep! Cats gonna beat out this mellow jive;
Hep-hep! Beat it out on the mellow side.
Boy? Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
Oh, boy! Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
Palomar, shalomar, Swanee shore,
Let me dig that jive once more,
Boy! Lay it right on down to the gator.
Oh, boy! Lay it flat as a gator.
Now, can't you hear those hepcats call,
Yeah! Come on, boys, let's have a ball!
The jim, jam, jump on the jumpin' jive
Makes you dig your jive on the mellow side,
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
The jim, jam, jump is the solid jive
Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five,
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
Now, don't you be that ickeroo,
Get hep, come on and follow through,
Then you get your steady foo,
You make the joint jump like the gators do,
The jim, jam, jump on the jumpin' jive
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side,
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
The jim, jam, jumpin' jive
Makes you hep-hep on the mellow side!
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
The jim, jam, jump on the jumpin' jive,
Will make you dig your jive on the mellow side,
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
The jim, jam, jump, the solid jive
Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five,
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
Now, don't you be that ickeroo,
Get hep, come on and follow through,
Then you get your steady foo,
You make the joint jump like the gators do,
The jim, jam, jump on the jumpin' jive
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side,
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
The jim, jam, jumpin' jive,
Makes you hep-hep on the mellow side;
Hep-hep! Hep-hep!
Now, I've told you 'bout the jumpin' jive,
The jim, jam, jump, the jumpin' jive,
I know you dug this mellow jive,
Oh, you dig it on the mellow side.

A Walk Through Harlem 3: Tech Literacy Connection: Who, What, Where

Again, I'm not quite sure that this template goes with this movie segment or with another movie or possibly with one of the posterized collages that go with a certain Harlem history theme. I think one gets the idea.

I Remember Harlem 3: Tech Literacy Connection: Then And Now Changes

I'm not quite sure that this template (then and now theme) goes with this movie segment or with another movie or possibly with one of the posterized collages that go with a certain Harlem history theme. I think one gets the idea.

A Walk Through Harlem 2: Tech/Literacy Connection: Copying And Pasting Text And Matching With Extracted Still Image

After viewing this segment, students could do an assignment where they copy and paste stills from the movie onto the text frames that coincide with the matching caption

I Remember Harlem 2: Tech Literacy Connection: Venn Diagrams

Here I modified a Venn Diagram and the assignment is to use the film segment as a jumping off point to write about what is the same and what is different in eras of Harlem history. They also get practice in inserting text in a text box and working around an inserted image

A Walk Through Harlem 1: Tech Literacy Connection: Copying And Pasting Text From Two Documents

Here the students get tech practice by copying and pasting from two different word documents in order to match up stills from this clip with a description of what is being discussed.

I Remember Harlem 1-Tech/Literacy Connection : Sentence Completion

For each of the films I use with students I try to develop different literacy connections as well as give them an opportunity to practice their tech skills. My usual procedure is to have them watch various clips in quicktime and then transition to a standardized template that I create in word. In this instance they have to complete the statement. I give them the time markers from the film to help them navigate if they don't remember from the initial viewing.

Graphic Organizer: Harlem Renaissance 3

Graphic Organizer: Harlem Renaissance 2

"Inspiration" Generated Graphic Organizer On The Harlem Renaissance

Often times while watching a film using a computer it's helpful to either pause midstream or summarize at the end to brainstorm on the movie's themes. Here's an example of one done after watching a film on the Harlem Renaissance. Students could be asked to generate further links or they may use the organizer as a study guide or as a
idea generator for a writing or research assignment