Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories

Here are some additional lesson plans and suggested ideas related to the Webquests and Jacob Lawrence’s work:

Jacob Lawrence Discrimination Education Harlem Migration & Immigration (In)Justice North/South Self Struggle

Interdisciplinary lesson plans for Jacob Lawrence: Storyteller, with resources to help students respond to and create work based on the stories told in Lawrence’s art.

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/jacoblawrence/index.htm

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute posts a curriculum unit on the work of Jacob Lawrence, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman – includes references.

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.08.x.html#e

Offers lesson plans and resources for United States history, by time period and theme.

http://www.edhelper.com/cat128.htm

Student painting project based on Jacob Lawrence’s works, including student examples.

http://www.jordan.palo-alto.ca.us/department/public/artjl.html

Lesson plans for Jacob Lawrence’s works.

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4582.html

A search for "Jacob Lawrence" will bring up many articles and lesson plans.

http://www.africana.com

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Discrimination and self-esteem.

http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/englp/discrim.htm

Racial discrimination.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst66.txt

Health discrimination.

http://www.edhelper.com/cat68.htm

Affirmative Action.

http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/eeoc.html

Jim Crow.

http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm

http://www.afroamhistory.about.com/cs/jimcrowlaws/?once=true&

http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/jcrow.htm

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/1/96.01.01.x.html

The Underground Railroad.

http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm

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School segregation.

http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/brown.html

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Some information on Harlem from 1900-1940 with a focus on the arts. Includes a timeline and teacher resources.

http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html

A Harlem Renaissance WebQuest.

http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq71/

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The Great Migration.

http://www.school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/tpl-sweethomechicago/

Immigration.

http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/origlessons/immigration/
immigrationtarget.html

WebQuest about immigration today.

http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/EDT628/shovanes/index.htm

With your students, look at some of these digital storytelling resources. Discuss the differences between oral and digital storytelling.

http://www.storycenter.org

http://www.crockettdesign.com/digstor/ds1.html

http://www.tech-head.com/dstory.htm

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Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig.

http://www.unhcr.ch/teach/tchlang/12-14lp.htm

Justice.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst10.txt

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst104.txt

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Consider having student partners exchange their written descriptions. Each partner can draw a picture based on the other’s written description. They can then compare their drawings. Have student pairs assess whether or not they thought they were successful in creating visual imagery from the written descriptions.

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Portraits.

http://www.npg.si.edu/inf/edu/index-tea.htm

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/art/selfportr092299.html

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Consider bringing in sample magazines to show how pictorial reports are designed and laid out. If you have access to a television and VCR, show examples of TV broadcasts and discuss similarities and differences of local versus national news programs.

Civil Rights.

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/civil.html

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