Transcript Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were
Watching God
Lessons, Activities,
and Homework
April
24
2015
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1. Period 2, please turn in
Due date
your work into 3
for novel
separate piles on the
Agenda:
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is Friday
1.Silent
2. Read silently.
Last
May 8th
Reading
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Class:
2.Ch. 3-4 Quiz
Chapter 4
start at “B”.
(Period 2
only)
Homework:
3. When
I call you up,
Next
Read
Chapters
3.Ch. 5-6 Quiz
please
come 7-9.
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your
Class:
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4.Classwork
novel. links on the website Reviewing
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for Chapters
Our Learningversions.
Focus for Today: and
5&6
analyzing
1. Define the characteristics of a folk tale, and identify
the effect
5.Start on
Ch. 5 & 6
of these elements.
Ch.7-9
and reading
Chapter 5: Levels of
Questions
Please take
notes on the different levels of
questions. This is similar to our HOT style
questions from The Crucible.
• Level 1 – Literal
– Answers can be found in the text or with further
research
– EX: Who is Aaron Douglas?
• Level 2 – Interpretive
– Requires inference and further research to answer
– EX: What comparisons can you make between a
writer’s and an artist’s use of imagery?
• Level 3 – Universal
– Answers go beyond what is included in the text and
may require additional research
Chapter 5: Janie’s
New
Life
You will now jump back into Chapter 5. On a
separate sheet of paper from your notes, create
a three-column chart and write three questions
for EACH of the levels of questions (total of 9
questions). Model your own questions on the
examples below, but DON’T use these! 
Literal
Interpretive
Universal
What does Joe
Starks say when
the audience
requests that Janie
speak?
Based on Joe
How does society
Stark’s statements
define male and
about women, what female gender roles
can the reader infer and how do we see
about Joe’s attitude
that play out with
toward women?
Joe and Janie?
Chapter 5: Janie’s
New
Life
Take 30 minutes
to share
your questions with
your table group. This time will function as an
informal Socratic Seminar. As you share each
question, take time to discuss possible answers.
After 30 minutes, as a group, take another 5
minutes and decide on the question that BEST
identifies the central issues of Chapter 5 and
write down a justification that explains what
central issue it addresses and what makes it a
strong question.
As a class, each group will share their strongest
question. From there we will narrow it down to
Chapter 6: Folktales
Please continue taking notes on the same sheet of
paper you were using before.
A folk tale has many or all of the characteristics listed
below:
 They are generally handed down to a group orally.
 They are characteristic of the time and place in which
they are told.
 The stories speak to universal and timeless themes.
 The stories try to explain human life and how people
deal with life or the origin of something.
 They are often about common people.
 The characters struggle with natural events.
Chapter 6: Folktales
As an anthropologist (someone who studies different
cultures and societies), Hurston collected stories,
conversations, and other aspects of oral tradition
that she then infused into her writing. Listen again to
the story of Matt’s mule.
Chapter 6: Double
Entry
Journal
You will now
find four quotes
for a double entry journal
that connect the various characteristics of a folktale to
the story (must be four different characteristics). On the
analysis side, discuss which folk tale characteristic your
quote exemplifies and explain the effect this folktale
element
haspg.#
on the reader
Follow (but
use!) the
Quote and
Characteristic
anddon’t
Analysis/Effect
example
below.
“You mean tuh tell me
Exaggerated characters, conflicts, or
you rode dat mule all de
way from West Florida
down heah?”
“Sho he did, Lige. But he
didn’t
mean thu. He suz
dialogue: Giving the mule human
desires (not liking West Florida)
exaggerates the story and adds
humor. Injecting the novel with humor
allows the reader to take a breath from
the difficult life and situation of the
characters within the novel. It provides
Chapter 6: Folktales
On your own, find four quotes from the
folktale about Matt’s mule. Follow the
example below (but you can’t use this one!).
Quote and pg.#
Characteristic and

Analysis/Effect
“You mean tuh tell me
you rode dat mule all
de way from West
Florida down heah?”
“Sho he did, Lige. But
he didn’t
mean thu. He suz
Exaggerated characters, conflicts,
or dialogue: Giving the mule
human desires (not liking West
Florida) exaggerates the story and
adds humor. Injecting the novel
with humor allows the reader to
take a breath from the difficult life
and situation of the characters
After Reading
Questions
Think about the
characters, setting, and conflicts in
Chapters 5 and 6. Then write analytical responses to
the interpretive questions that follow.
1. How has Joe enslaved Janie? What comments
does he make that illustrate his view of husbands
and wives? Do you see any parallels between
Joe’s treatment of the mule and his treatment of
Janie?
2. Hurston often used Eatonville, her real-life
childhood home, as a setting in her work.
Describe Eatonville as it is presented in Their
Eyes Were Watching God. What effect is the
young town having on Joe, Janie, and their
marriage?