Author: Jennifer Kroll
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425889972
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This instructional guide encourages students to explore and analyze this classic novel through lessons that are fun and challenging. With various methods for assessing comprehension, this invaluable classroom resource offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the book by using higher-order thinking skills, and activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for deeper critical analysis. Through close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, this tool will guide teachers in a rich and deep exploration of the text with ways to add rigor with complex literature.
A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062374265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A leading novel in the canon of African American literature—this free teaching guide for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice. “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.”—Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African American literature.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062374265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A leading novel in the canon of African American literature—this free teaching guide for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice. “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.”—Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African American literature.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780800074142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780800074142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works
Author: John Wharton Lowe
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603290432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zora Neale Hurston emerged as a celebrated writer of the Harlem Renaissance, fell into obscurity toward the end of her life, yet is now recognized as a great American author. Her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is popular among general readers and is widely taught in universities, colleges, and secondary schools. A key text of African American and women's literature, it has also been studied by scholars interested in the 1930s, small-town life, modernism, folklore, and regionalism, and it has been viewed through the lenses of dialect theory, critical race theory, and transnational and diasporan studies.Considering the ubiquity of Hurston's work in the nation's classrooms, there have been surprisingly few book-length studies of it. This volume helps instructors situate Hurston's work against the various cultures that engendered it and understand her success as short story writer, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Part 1 outlines Hurston's publication history and the reemergence of the author on the literary scene and into public consciousness. Part 2 first concentrates on various approaches to teaching Their Eyes, looking at Hurston's radical politics and use of folk culture and dialect; contemporary reviews of the novel, including contrary remarks by Richard Wright; Janie's search for identity in Hurston's all-black hometown, Eatonville; and the central role of humor in the novel. The essays in part 2 then take up Hurston's other, rarely taught novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine,Moses, Man of the Mountain, and Seraph on the Suwanee. Also examined here are Hurston's anthropological works, chief among them Mules and Men, a staple for many years on American folklore syllabi, and Tell My Horse, newly reconsidered in Caribbean and postcolonial studies.
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603290432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zora Neale Hurston emerged as a celebrated writer of the Harlem Renaissance, fell into obscurity toward the end of her life, yet is now recognized as a great American author. Her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is popular among general readers and is widely taught in universities, colleges, and secondary schools. A key text of African American and women's literature, it has also been studied by scholars interested in the 1930s, small-town life, modernism, folklore, and regionalism, and it has been viewed through the lenses of dialect theory, critical race theory, and transnational and diasporan studies.Considering the ubiquity of Hurston's work in the nation's classrooms, there have been surprisingly few book-length studies of it. This volume helps instructors situate Hurston's work against the various cultures that engendered it and understand her success as short story writer, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Part 1 outlines Hurston's publication history and the reemergence of the author on the literary scene and into public consciousness. Part 2 first concentrates on various approaches to teaching Their Eyes, looking at Hurston's radical politics and use of folk culture and dialect; contemporary reviews of the novel, including contrary remarks by Richard Wright; Janie's search for identity in Hurston's all-black hometown, Eatonville; and the central role of humor in the novel. The essays in part 2 then take up Hurston's other, rarely taught novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine,Moses, Man of the Mountain, and Seraph on the Suwanee. Also examined here are Hurston's anthropological works, chief among them Mules and Men, a staple for many years on American folklore syllabi, and Tell My Horse, newly reconsidered in Caribbean and postcolonial studies.
Dust Tracks on a Road
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394270206
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book."-The New Yorker.The autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of America's most captivating and important authors, Dust Tracks on a Road, is daring, heartbreaking, and humorous. Hurston's dramatic Southern books, such as Jonah's Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God, continue to captivate readers with their lyrical beauty, piercing detail, and compelling emotionality. Dust Tracks on a Road was first published in 1942 and tells Hurston's personal narrative in her own words.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394270206
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book."-The New Yorker.The autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of America's most captivating and important authors, Dust Tracks on a Road, is daring, heartbreaking, and humorous. Hurston's dramatic Southern books, such as Jonah's Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God, continue to captivate readers with their lyrical beauty, piercing detail, and compelling emotionality. Dust Tracks on a Road was first published in 1942 and tells Hurston's personal narrative in her own words.
Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Author: Jennifer Kroll
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425889972
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This instructional guide encourages students to explore and analyze this classic novel through lessons that are fun and challenging. With various methods for assessing comprehension, this invaluable classroom resource offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the book by using higher-order thinking skills, and activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for deeper critical analysis. Through close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, this tool will guide teachers in a rich and deep exploration of the text with ways to add rigor with complex literature.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425889972
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This instructional guide encourages students to explore and analyze this classic novel through lessons that are fun and challenging. With various methods for assessing comprehension, this invaluable classroom resource offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the book by using higher-order thinking skills, and activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for deeper critical analysis. Through close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, this tool will guide teachers in a rich and deep exploration of the text with ways to add rigor with complex literature.
Mules and Men
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061749877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061749877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.
More Novels and Plays
Author: Albert B. Somers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080410
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With initiating activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans. For each book there is also a brief plot summary, a critique, lists of themes and literary concepts for teaching, suggestions for outside reading and vocabulary study, and lists of available print and electronic media resources.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080410
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With initiating activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans. For each book there is also a brief plot summary, a critique, lists of themes and literary concepts for teaching, suggestions for outside reading and vocabulary study, and lists of available print and electronic media resources.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocabulary Activities
Author: Jennifer Kroll
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480799130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
These vocabulary activities for Their Eyes Were Watching God incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480799130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
These vocabulary activities for Their Eyes Were Watching God incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Leveled Comprehension Questions
Author: Jennifer Kroll
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480799149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
These leveled discussion questions about Their Eyes Were Watching God require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480799149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
These leveled discussion questions about Their Eyes Were Watching God require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
ZORA : In Search of Zora Neale Hurston
Author: WikiPedia Presents
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312301724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In order to attend public school for free, Hurston presented herself as 16 (she was really 26 years old). Later, she studied anthropology and became the first African American graduate (male or female) from Barnard College. Known for her three seminal works: 1). Jonah's Gourd Vine and 2). Tell My Horse and 3). Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ms. Hurston was a great influence on three of the most important African American authors (Maya Angelou; Toni Morrison; and Alice Walker).
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312301724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In order to attend public school for free, Hurston presented herself as 16 (she was really 26 years old). Later, she studied anthropology and became the first African American graduate (male or female) from Barnard College. Known for her three seminal works: 1). Jonah's Gourd Vine and 2). Tell My Horse and 3). Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ms. Hurston was a great influence on three of the most important African American authors (Maya Angelou; Toni Morrison; and Alice Walker).