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

Tools for this Unit:

Film Sources

Raisin In the Sun 1961, Daniel Petrie, director, released by Columbia Pictures

Raisin in the Sun 1989, Bill Duke, director, made for TV movie produced by Chee Lee Production

Internet Sources:

African American Mosaic, Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration http://cweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afamo011.html

Black Facts Online http://www.blackfacts.com

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Englewood/Redlining/Restrictive Covenants/Contested Spaces http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/426.html

History of Fight for Housing Project Told A.L. Foster/ Chicago Defender http://www.public.asu.edu/~wplotkin/DeedsWeb/wells.html

Perspectives in American Literature: Lorraine Hansberry http://csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/hansberry.html

Poetry Glossary http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/130/133428/glossary.html

Reading and Teaching Poetry Constructivist Approach http://www.chatham.edu/PTI/2003%20Units/Reading%20and%20Teaching%20POetry/abst...

Spark Notes: A Raisin in the Sun http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/raisin/analysis.html

Teaching A Raisin in the Sun Literature and Life http://FirstSearchoclc.org

Teaching Literature Grade 9: Integrating the Communication Arts, Drama, Experimental http://FirstSearchoclc.org

Techniques of Teaching Lorraine Hanserry: Liberation from Boredom http://FirstSearchoclc.org

When Public Housing was Paradise/Mitch Kahn http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/138/kahnreview.html

Other Resources:

Center for Inner City Studies/700 East Oakwood/Chicago 60653

Chicago Defender 200 South Michigan/Suite 1700/Chicago 60604

Chicago Historical Society/1601 N. Clark Chicago, 60614

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Branch/ 400 South State/Chicago 60606

Dusable Museum of African American History 740 E. 56th Place/Chicago 60637

Goodman Theater/170 N. Dearborn/Chicago Il 60601

Pullman Guided Tours 11141 S. Cottage Grove/ Chicago 60653

National Geographic Society 1145 17th Street N. W. Washington D.C. 20036-4688

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