![]() ![]() In doing so, they compare the structure of each text and analyze how each medium conveys the idea of migration and its impact on an individual. Students will also examine the power of storytelling through different genres such as literary nonfiction ( Warmth of Other Suns), drama ( Fences), poetry (poems by Richard Wright and Langston Hughes), song (Bessie Smith’s “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”) and other visual media (mostly photography and painting). As students read The Warmth of Other Suns, they consider the historical context of their previous unit Fences in order to better empathize with the complicated protagonist Troy Maxson and the decisions he made in his life as an emigrant from the South. In this unit, students explore the circumstances in which individuals in the Great Migration made decisions about picking up and moving to foreign cities in the North. ![]() Many history teachers teach about migration to Ellis Island but few focus on this massive flight of six million blacks who left their homeland looking for a better life in the northern part of the United States. ![]() This relocation-called the Great Migration-resulted in major demographic shifts across the United States. Between 19 more than six million African-Americans moved out of the South to cities across the Northeast, Midwest, and West. ![]()
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