Prior to the drawing and creating collages for this project, each student table group is responsible to give a presentation to the class about a specific painting to help teach their classmates more about the life and style of Jacob Lawrence. For example, students discovered that there are a lot of visual clues in his paintings that help reinforce the theme as can be seen in these Jacob Lawrence Paintings from the Image Gallery of ArtEdNet. In each presentation students report on the viewpoints, limited color choice, movement, emphasis, and story behind the visual elements. Students will then enlarge a photograph of a figure in motion to a 18x24 format using a graphing process, and then cut out the enlarged shapes for a collage. The unit will conclude with a self evaluation in poetry after listening to Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes. The students will write a poem using the same style as Hughes, then put their collages up on the wall. Mrs. Goldman will read the poems and students will try and guess which poem belongs to which painting.