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Harlem Renaissance Escape Room

Hannah Gutierrez Ibarra

Created on March 1, 2024

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Harlem Renaissance Escape Room

start

After a long day, you arrive home and are surprised to find no one there. When you go to the kitchen, you find a note and decide to read it...

Look at the note on the fridge

Recipe

I'm out to dinner. I left a recipe in the fridge for you to make dinner. Follow all the steps!

2 cups noodles

1 cup milk

1 cup cheese

Seasoning

Click the image in the bottom left to read the site. Use it to answer the following four questions. 1. What drew African Americans to cities like Harlem, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit?

All of the following are correct

A better standard of living

Booming economies and industrial jobs available

A more racially tolernt environment

2. Alain Locke, sometimes called the "dean" of the Harlem Renaissance, described the movement as

a cultural explosion

a cultural expression

a spiritual coming of age for African Americans

a social disillusionment to race pride

3. What caused the end of the Harlem Renaissance?

Stock Market Crash of 1929

World War I

The Great Depression

World War II

Recipe

2 cups noodles

1 cup milk

1 cup cheese

Seasoning

Drag the author to slot 1, the dancer to slot 2, the singer to slot 3, and the poet to slot 4. Click SOLUTION to check your answers. If it's wrong, redo it. When it's right, click CONTINUE.

A. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

B. Zora Neale Hurston

C. Georgia Douglas Johnson

D. Ethel Waters

Continue

solution

Drag the dancer to slot 1, the poet/author to slot 2, the writer/philosopher to slot 3, and the poet/social activist to slot 4. Click SOLUTION to check your answers. If it's wrong, redo it. When it's right, click CONTINUE.

A. Countee Cullen

B. Langston Hughes

C. Josephine Baker

D. Alain Locke

Continue

Solution

Drag the sculptor to slot 1, the photographer to slot 2, the pianist/composer to slot 3, and the singer/musician to slot 4. Click SOLUTION to check your answers. If it's wrong, redo it. When it's right, click CONTINUE.

A. Augusta Savage

B. Louis Armstrong

C. Duke Ellington

D. James Van Der Zee

Continue

solution

Recipe

2 cups noodles

1 cup milk

1 cup cheese

Seasoning

Renaissance, by definition, means "rebirth" or "revival"

FALSE

TRUE

The Harlem Renaissance rejected any themes relating to slavery. (Hint: use the article linked below in the center)

TRUE

FALSE

The Harlem Renaissance rejected any themes relating to slavery. (Hint: use the article linked below in the center)

TRUE

FALSE

The Harlem Renaissance preluded the Civil Rights Movement, which was followed by the Black Arts Movement. (Hint: use the article linked below in the center)

FALSE

TRUE

Recipe

2 cups noodles

1 cup milk

1 cup cheese

Seasonings

The Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact on the Civil Rights Movement

FALSE

TRUE

Who painted the piece below titled "The Builders (Family)"?

James Van Der Zee

Jacob Lawrence

The Cotton Club in Harlem was...

A movie theater that showed Harlem Renaissance films

A legendary jazz club

Recipe

2 cups noodles

1 cup milk

1 cup cheese

Seasoning

Congrats!

You did it! Show Ms. G this screen to get points for completing it.

starT over?

Wrong!

Go back and try again!

1 - C

2 - A

3 - D

4 - B

1 - B

2 - A

3 - D

4 - C

1 - A

2 - D

3 - C

4 - B