Learning+Objectives+for+the+Emerging+African+American+Voice

Learning Objectives
 * 1) Understand how African American literature both echoes “traditional” literary themes, but also differentiates itself with specific and distinct themes of its own.
 * 2) Demonstrate knowledge of the major texts and periods in African-American literature, such as slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, and Black Arts Movement
 * 3) Discuss social, intellectual and historical influences specific to the development of African-American literature.
 * 4) Demonstrate critical skills and knowledge of literary conventions used to evaluate works of poetry, nonfiction and fiction