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- Eyewitness to the flood
- In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Literature-based newspaper: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Students will create an Eatonville newspaper depicting the characters and events in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Swartz.
- Pashupatinath tour: Temple of Shiva
- In this recording, I learn about the biggest temple in Pashupatinath, dedicated to Shiva. We also learn about a hospital built by Mother Theresa. And then we hear about another building in Pashupatinath, distinctive for its five steeples sticking up. Then...
- Format: audio
- Elizabeth, A Colored Minister of the Gospel, Born in Slavery
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.9
- In this excerpt from her 1863 memoir, Elizabeth (her last name, if she had one, is unknown), a former slave, tells of her conversion to Christianity and her work as a minister. She faced opposition to her ministry both because she was African American and because she was a woman. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- The Bouquet
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.2
- Story by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Includes reading questions.
- Format: story
Resources on the web
- Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
- Students explore the way African-American author Zora Neale Hurston makes use of closely observed black folklife in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Style: Defining and exploring an author's stylistic choices
- In this activity, students will find examples of specific stylistic devices in sample literary passages then search for additional examples and explore the reasons for the stylistic choices that the author has made. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
