Langston Hughes Young Writers Project









			The Langston Hughes Young Writers Project is designed to expose Cleveland-area students to the literary genius of Langston Hughes, one of the most recognized figures of the arts era known as the Harlem Renaissance. Like other programs involving the arts and cognitive learning, the Langston Hughes Young Writers Recognition Project is intended to stimulate imagination in young learners and nurture creative response. What separates the Young Writers Program, however, is the extensive network of activities coordinated to both guide student interest beyond the initial stage of creative response and facilitate instruction of critical thinking by way of formal art principles. Our methodology will be to coordinate activities that invoke a broad range of learning modalities in order to instruct fundamentals of formal art principles and to reinforce learning through activities that require creative problem-solving in situations designed to engage critical and lateral thinking skills. At the heart of the Young Writers Project is the idea of student-initiated learning. As such, the Project combines an historic event and language arts programs to introduce students in the Cleveland-area to one of their own-Langston Hughes, Central High School, Class of 1920, a fellow student who embodied the love, vision, and future that all students seek. Page Last Modified 4/8/02 Site Created by Jennifer Lenhart& Daniel Lenhart Content Compiled by Dr. Adrienne Gosselin