Week 9, Semester 2

Here's the complete work for this week. Enjoy listening to Ruby Dee's narration while following along in the book.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This week we'll read the first six chapters. Please notice and use the "Their Eyes Resources" tab at the top of this blog.  Here you'll find a helpful glossary and an excellent audio reading of each chapter.  

Before each chapter, read through the glossary words for that chapter so that you'll understand them.

Here are the study guide questions for chapters 1-6. Make your own copy of the document and answer the questions as you read. Keep all of your work for this unit in one place so that it's all together when it's time to turn it in.

Please listen to Chapter 1 as you follow along in the text.  It's good to have both your eyes and ears taking in the words and sound of the vernacular.  It will help you become accustomed to the feel and sound of the language.  Each chapter has an audio link, so you may wish to listen throughout your reading. It's a great audio version.

We will have some vocabulary to define related to this book and Zora Neale Hurston.  Please look up and define each of the following:

vernacular

colloquial

aphorisms

folklore

anthropology

idiom

Harlem Renaissance Video Component

Watch the following videos on the Harlem Renaissance Movement.  Take notes of specifics while you watch.  Afterwards, use your notes to create a Writer's Notebook entry with at least four well-developed paragraphs. Here are the topics you should address in each paragraph:

Paragraph 1: A description of the movement  (think: who, what, when, where)

Paragraph 2: The causes of the movement  (think: why? what conditions precipitated it?)

Paragraph 3: Characteristics of mov't, some important figures and art forms

Paragraph 4:  Impact and legacy

Videos to Watch

The Great Migration & The Harlem Renaissance (12 minutes)

The Harlem Renaissance's cultural explosion, in photographs (5 minutes)

Great Gatsby Work Submission

Here's the document where you should submit links to all of your Gatsby unit work.  You can take pictures of elements or scan them and compile their images into a Google Slides document.  Or you can share Google documents as links as well.  Be sure to change the permissions so I have access and ability to comment. All of these are due to be submitted by next Tuesday.