Adapting Literature

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.01.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Social/Political Climate
  3. Artistic Expressions
  4. Strategies/ Classroom Activities
  5. Notes
  6. Works Cited
  7. Poetry Sources
  8. Film Sources
  9. Appendix A: Assessment Rubric "Raisin in the Sun"
  10. Appendix B:Goals/Illinois Standards
  11. Appendix C: Reviews and Criticism of Raisin in the Sun

Using Film and Literature to examine The Great black Migration: An Analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun" through poetic voices

Sharon Monique Ponder

Published September 2007

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Works Cited

- Chicago Race Commission, The Negro in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1920.

- Corrigan, Timothy J. A Short Guide to Writing About film, (Pearson Longman Press 2005) 36-39.

- Halpern, Monica. National Geographic, The Great Black Migration. Seeds of Change in America; National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. 2003

- Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun. Introduction by Robert Nemiroff. New York: Vintage, 1994 All quotations are from this edition

- Hansberry, L. Les Blancs, 1970 (adapted by Robert Nemiroff)

- Hansberry, L. The Movement: Documentary of a struggle for Equality. NY: Simon and Shuster, 1964.

- Hansberry, L. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, 1965.

- Hansberry, L. To be Young, gifted and Black: in Her Own Words. NY: Prentice-Hall,1969.

- Hansberry, L. What use are Flowers?, 1961 (full production in 1994 at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia).

- Hooks, Bell. "Raisin in a new Light," Christianity and Crisis 49:1 (1989).

- Miller, Jeanne-Marie A. "Measure Him right": An analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun." Teaching American Ethnic Literature: Nineteen Essays. Eds. John R. Maitino and David R. Peck. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P. 1996.

- Lemann, Nicholas. Promised Land. NY: Random House, 1995.

- Spero, Sterling and Abram Harris, The Black Worker. New York: Atheneum, 1969.

- Wilson, William Julius. The Declining Significance of Race. 2nd edition, Chicago: The U of Chicago P. 1980.

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