Transcript Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were
Watching God
Lessons, Activities,
and Homework
April
28
2015
Do Now:
1. Turn in your classwork
notes from last class.
2. Pick up the handout
Agenda:
3. Read silently.
1.Silent
Dictionaryland peeps,
Reading
start at “C”.
2.Quiz Ch.7-9 4. When I call you up,
3.Grammar
please come take your
4.SBAC
Homework:
novel.
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is Friday
May 8th.
Last
- SBAC
Class:
THURS!!!
Chapters 5-6
Next
Class:
Review all essay/writing notes
Lesson
and handouts!!!
5.Review/Anal
SBAC Perf.
Do turnitin essay!
ysis of Ch.7Our Learning Focus for Today: Task Essay
9 1. Use textual evidence to track key actions and characters’ emotional
responses.
2. Analyze how Hurston’s writing reflects and departs from the ideas of the
Reviewing Previous
Chapters
1. Review the ending
of Chapter 6, beginning with “Janie
did what she had never done before.” Think about what
this action means to Janie’s character development.
Share your answer.
2. After reading the first two paragraphs of Chapter 7,
describe how the author’s use of imagery expresses
Janie’s sense of her marriage. How does her behavior
at the beginning of this chapter compare to her actions
at the end of Chapter 6?
3. Create a T-Chart for Chapters 7 & 8 that focuses on
important plot developments and Janie’s emotional
response to those developments. Pick out 3 important
plot developments for each chapter.
4. How are Hurston’s beliefs in the power of the individual
Chapters 7-9: Janie’s “Route
of Tradition”
Think about the critical commentaries that are
provided in the graphic organizer handout. Identify
textual evidence from Chapters 7, 8, and 9 and
complete the chart.
Example:
“People who
never had known
what it was to
enter the gate of
the Mayor’s yard
unless it were to
do some menial
job now paraded
in and out…”
Example:
Hurston’s
description of
how Joe treated
people in the
town harkens the
reader to
connect him to
the era of
slavery.