The Harlem Renaissance? Jazz? Poetry? Art? France? 2nd Graders? All going on at the Museum School in the Bronx. Over 3 workshops these second graders experienced jazz and the Harlem Renaissance through music, art, poetry, history and international flavor. Each class focused on a different part of jazz and Harlem. First was looking the historical background and how jazz traveled across the country and the world to end up in the neighborhood just South of them. The second class looked at art; how it was influenced by feelings of jazz. Each student created their own "Jazz Art" piece of their favorite part of New York City in an emotion of their choosing. The "happy" Coney Island screamed for ice cream and sun and the "sad' Statue of Liberty teared up in blues. The final class took the words of poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay and put them to jazz. The students then created their own poems inspired by their own pictures. We are just waiting for their final event to see how this poetry jam turned out.
The Bronx Zoo
Everyone is fighting
Terrible, angry, mean
Animals, tigers, elephants
They are always fighting each other
Raaawwrrr
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