Organize and annotate Web sites for use in lessons.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Track #
248696
Annotations by:
C L Gonder
Track Category
Grade(s):
High School (9-12)
Subjects(s):
Language Arts
Social Sciences
Last Modified:
Jun 2, 2005
Format:
Resource list
Track Description
What is the relationship between formal individual literary creativity and the informal, traditional aesthetic standards of the writer's own community?
After completing this lesson, students will be able to do the following:
Define folklore, folk groups, tradition, and oral narrative
Identify traditional elements in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Analyze and understand the role of traditional folkways and folk speech in the overall literary impact of the novel
Compare Zora Neale Hurston's work as a collector of folk narrative with her better-known status as a novelist
Understand as both listeners and tellers the importance of voice, pacing, and other features of performance in oral narrative
Transcribe orally given narrative into eye dialect.
