Brown Girl Dreaming: Jacob Lawrence Projects

For this project you will be making art in the style of Jacob Lawrence. 

Jacob Lawrence was a 20th century African American painter who worked during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and throughout the century.  His paintings all feature African American subjects. Many of them tell stories. 

His most well known work, called The Migration, tells the story of The Great Migration of African Americans from the southern states to the cities of the north during the 1920's and 1930's.

Here is an example:

For your project you'll be making an eight section artwork.  

These are the four sections for the top row:

1. Portrait of one character.
2. Information about that character.  (Use your character cards)
1. name
2. relationship to Jackie
3. lines of poetry about that character. Include the page number.
4. summary of that character's role in Jackie's life
3. Portrait of a second character
4. Information about that character.

These are the four sections for the bottom row:

1. Three to six lines of poetry from one of your favorite poems in the book.  (Use a book or your English journal for this.  This can be from any poem in the book. Pick one that you like.
2. Portrait of a third character.
3. Information about that character
4. Theme.  Choose on of the themes in Brown Girl Dreaming. Create either a visual about it or write a paragraph explaining it.

Here is the project I've been making.  I'm not finished with it yet.  I'll try to  post the finished version  soon.

To type up the written part of this project set up a Google Doc with two columns.  Do this under the Format tab. Set the line spacing to single.  You should be able to put all of your work on a single page when you print.  Carefully cut each section  out and glue it to the correct space.  

This project is due on Wednesday, April 24.  There will be no more class time scheduled for this project.  

Sine this is the final project for Brown Girl Dreaming, it will be an 80% project.