Exploring the Harlem Renaissance

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

• A type of dance from the 1800s

• An African American artistic, cultural, and intellectual movement in the 1920s and 1930s

• A new kind of music from the 1950s

• A famous building in New York

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CCSS.RL.3.1

Read the sentence: "Hughes wrote colloquially and relied heavily on blues music to create his unique poetic style." What does the word "colloquially" most likely mean in this sentence?

• In a very formal way

• Using everyday language

• With lots of pictures

• In a quiet voice

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CCSS.L.3.4A

Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage about the Harlem Renaissance?

• The Harlem Renaissance was a time when African American artists expressed their experiences in many different ways.

• Harlem was the only place where art was made in the 1920s.

• All artists in the Harlem Renaissance wrote the same way.

• The Harlem Renaissance was only about music.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

Who were two famous poets mentioned in the passage?

• Langston Hughes and Claude McKay

• William Shakespeare and Robert Frost

• Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni

• Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker

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CCSS.RL.3.1

What is a "sonnet" as used in the passage?

• A type of dance

• A traditional poetic form

• A kind of painting

• A musical instrument

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CCSS.L.3.4A

Which detail from the passage supports the idea that the Harlem Renaissance was a national movement?

• "Harlem, New York, was the home to many prominent artists and writers"

• "the Harlem Renaissance was a national movement"

• "Hughes wrote colloquially"

• "McKay adhered to a traditional poetic form"

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CCSS.RI.3.2

What does the word "prominent" mean in the sentence: "Harlem, New York, was the home to many prominent artists and writers within this movement"?

• Unknown

• Important or well-known

• Young

• Poor

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CCSS.L.3.4A

What does the word "diversity" mean in the sentence: "as a means to communicate the diversity of writing within Harlem’s literary renaissance"?

• The sameness

• The variety

• The length

• The difficulty

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CCSS.L.3.4A

Which of the following is a fact you can recall from the passage?

• Claude McKay wrote in a traditional poetic form called the sonnet.

• Claude McKay was a famous painter.

• Langston Hughes was not part of the Harlem Renaissance.

• Harlem Renaissance only included musicians.

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CCSS.RL.3.1

What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

• The Harlem Renaissance was only about poetry.

• The Harlem Renaissance included many different styles and was about reflecting the African American experience.

• Only one magazine was published during the Harlem Renaissance.

• All artists lived in Harlem.

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CCSS.RI.3.2