Prior to the drawing and painting for this project, each student table group is responsible to give a presentation to the class about a specific painting by Lawrence that helps teach their classmates more about his life and art. For example, students discover that there are a lot of visual clues in his paintings that help reinforce the theme as can be seen in Migration #3. In each presentation students report on the viewpoints, limited color choice, movement, emphasis, and story behind the visual elements. Students enlarge a photograph of a figure in motion to a 18x24 format using a graphing process, and then use tempera paint as Lawrence did. The unit concludes with a self evaluation in poetry after listening to Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes. The students write a poem using the same style as Hughes, then put their paintings up on the wall. Mrs. Goldman reads the poems and students try and guess which poem belongs to which painting.

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