1. Analysis Essay
In a fully developed essay, compare and contrast the themes and the evidence of time period in The Great Gatsby to those in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel's success made him famous and let him marry the woman he loved, but he later descended into drinking and his wife had a mental breakdown. Following the unsuccessful Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. He died of a heart attack in 1940, at age 44, his final novel only half completed.”—Biography.com

3. Zora Neale Hurston
“Hurston became an orphan at nine, a run-away at fourteen, maid and manicurist before she was twenty, and with one dress and a dream—managed to become Zora Neale Hurston, author and anthropologist.” ---Alice Walker

4. Reading “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (370-372)
What Philosophies and beliefs did Hurston share with the Harlem Renaissance?
In what ways did Hurston follow her own path?

5. Differences Already?

6. Do Now: Define the following
Dialect Allusion

7. “Sweat” (375-383) Listen to the story
In groups, develop “rules” for the dialect
See example on page 374
Be prepared to share

8. What about Allusion
Biblical Allusion
Effect on Text

9. How do Fitzgerald and Hurston compare on reference to God?
EXIT SLIP:
Please List

10. Do Now
What do you think is the meaning of the title Their Eyes Were Watching God?
How does this compare to the watching eyes in The Great Gatsby?

11. Books Talk to Each Other
The Great Gatsby
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further And one fine morning—
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.”

12. How does Hurston talk to Fitzgerald?
Read the first two paragraphs of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Male Students: Interpret and analyze the first paragraph
Female Students: Interpret and analyze the second paragraph
Explain your paragraph to the other gender

13. Imagery & Characterization
Read the rest of chapter 1 and find
Imagery
Indirect Characterization
Direct Characterization
Double Entry Journal
Textual Evidence
How it shows the time period

14. How Character Arguments Work
Establishing Credibility
Does the writer seem honest?
Does he respect his audience?
Is the author likeable?

15. Do Now: Define First Person Point of View
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
Third Person Limited Point of View

16. What is the Point of View?
Mother to Son (pp )
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Chapter 1
Chapter 2

17. Comparison Compare Nanny’s narration to the poem by Langston Hughes
Compare Nick’s Narration to Janie’s

18. Read Chpts 5, and answer the study questions
Homework
Read Chpts 5, and answer the study questions

19. Do Now: Define
Literal Interpretive Universal

20. Types of Questions
Literal
Interpretive
Universal
Based on Joe Stark’s statements about women, what can the reader infer about Joe’s attitude toward women?
What does Joe Starks say when the audience requests that Janie speaks?
How does society define male and female roles?

21. Develop your own
Working with a partner, come up with three questions from chapter 5.
Share with the whole class!
Working together with your partner again, read chapter 6
Create a quiz for another group by coming up with three questions for each type of question.

22. Do Now: Define
Folk Tales

23. Hurston’s Folk Tale Focus
“She would get together a group of men in a railroad or turpentine camp or in a phosphate mining village, talk informally until they were no longer self-conscience, and then see which could outdo the other with his yarn.”
-- Benjamin Brawly

24. Let’s look at the elementsp
Let’s look at the elements
Myths, Fairy Tales
Reflection of time and place (dialect)
Exaggerated Characters or situation
Humans coping with the world
Common people as characters
Characters struggling with nature
Validates aspects of culture
Universal and Timeless themes

25. Let’s tell our own: Pick a “Story in a nutshell” or think of your own.
Read it (or jot it down) and think about how you could tell this story to:
exaggerate the character or situation
Make it reflect our times now
Be prepared to share in our story circle

26. Do Now:
Sit with a partner for “SAY SOMETHING” and begin reading Chapter 7.

27. How are Hurston’s beliefs om the power of the individual reflected in Janie’s character?

28. Finding Elements of Harlem Renaissance
p. 400
Finding Elements of Harlem Renaissance
Aspect
Example from Chpts 7, 8, 9
Product of the Historical Time Period?
Departure from ideas of the Time Period?

29. Homework
Read Chpts 8 & 9, and provide examples of the time period for the chart on page 400

30. Divide yourselves into 2 groups.
Do Now:
Divide yourselves into 2 groups.

31. Literary Circles 1 Summarizer 1 historian 1 question maker
1 note-taker
1 time keeper/facilitator
Tell us what happened
Find evidence of the time period
Come up with literal, interpretive and universal Questions
Record what your group discusses
Keep everyone on track

32. Process Chapter 10 Today: Determine how you will read the chapter
(silently or aloud with jobs 4 & 5 as readers)
If you are jobs 1-3, do your job as you read.
When done reading:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

33. Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 11, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.
Homework
Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 11, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.

34. Do Now
Chapter 11 Quiz

35. Chapter 11 Discussion
Lit Circle Two:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

36. Lit Circle Two: Switch Jobs again
Chapter 12 Today
Lit Circle Two: Switch Jobs again
Determine how you will read the chapter
(silently or aloud with jobs 4 & 5 as readers)
If you are jobs 1-3, do your job as you read.
When done reading:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

37. Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 13, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.
Homework
Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 13, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.

38. Do Now
Chapter 13 Quiz

39. Chapter 13 Discussion
Lit Circle Three:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

40. Lit Circle Three: Switch Jobs again
Chapter 14 Today
Lit Circle Three: Switch Jobs again
Determine how you will read the chapter
(silently or aloud with jobs 4 & 5 as readers)
If you are jobs 1-3, do your job as you read.
When done reading:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

41. Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 15, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.
Homework
Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 15, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.

42. Do Now
Chapter 15 Quiz

43. Chapter 15 Discussion
Lit Circle Three:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

44. Lit Circle Four: Switch Jobs again
Chapter 16 Today
Lit Circle Four: Switch Jobs again
Determine how you will read the chapter
(silently or aloud with jobs 4 & 5 as readers)
If you are jobs 1-3, do your job as you read.
When done reading:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

45. Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 17-18, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.
Homework
Switch Jobs, Read Chapter 17-18, and prepare for discussion tomorrow.

46. Do Now
Chapter Quiz

47. Chapter Discussion
Lit Circle Three:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

48. Lit Circle Five: Switch Jobs again
Chapter 19 Today
Lit Circle Five: Switch Jobs again
Determine how you will read the chapter
(silently or aloud with jobs 4 & 5 as readers)
If you are jobs 1-3, do your job as you read.
When done reading:
Job 5 should decide how long 1-2 will share their findings, then set a time for discussing each of Job 3’s questions.
Every group member is expected to discuss each question.
Job 4 will take notes on what was discussed.

49. Do Now:
Divide your two groups in half so we have four groups

50. Book Reviews Each group reads a book review Answer:
How does this interpretation help us understand how Hurston is a product of and a departure from the ideas of the Harlem Renaissance?”

51. The End…
As a group, read aloud chapter 20 and write a thematic statement using the frame below:
A primary theme in Their Eyes Were Watching God is ____________________.