12th gr World Lit


	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston


	Week 1: Introduction


	To Read or Watch, Week 2: 1) Study the Big Ideas and Themes listed at the right of this page. Read the selections of quotations below them. 2) Sanborn, Mark. Excerpt from You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone Anywhere Can Make a Positive Difference.


	Writing Due Friday: Power of Storytelling How much of what you have learned about family values, ethics, and morals has been learned through family stories? Write a personal narrative essay about the power of story in your life; reflect on the role stories play in your understanding of your family, yourself, and your values. Assignment Details


	Big Ideas for 1st Quarter power of story discovering purpose, passion, and leadership potential dignity, integrity, self-respect determination power through conviction responsibility innovation Themes Story is a basic principle of the mind. One story helps make sense of another. The stories we hear and the stories we tell shape who we are and who we become. The power of stories and poetry is lost if we don't listen. The power of leadership can come from within - not from what we do, but from who we are. Literature inspires. Language leads. Leadership can be a magnet or a beacon rather than a bullhorn or an organizational hierarchy. Effective leaders share similar qualities. Out of adversity comes strength of character. Character counts.


	Week 2: Begin Their Eyes


	To Read or Watch, Week 2: Mon: 1) Zucker, David and Jerry (dirs.). Airplane, video. Excerpt. 1980. (0:31) 2) Godheval on Black English. Video. YouTube. (3:37) 3) Alvarez, Louis, & Andy Kolker. "Linguistic Discrimination i n School." XX American Tongues. Video. Center for New American Video, 1987. (4:41) 4) Patrick, Peter L., Professor. "Answers to Some Questions About Ebonics". XX University of Essex. 5) Do we have a dialect? Our Dialect Quick-Write: Discuss the attitudes these people have about language: in what ways are they correct or incorrect? For fun: Audio Dialect Quiz. Tues: Chapter 1 p 17-24 (7 pgs) - followed by focus question 1 Wed: Chapter 2 p 25-37 (12 pgs) - followed by focus question 2 Thurs: Chapter 3 & 4 p 38-50 ( pgs)


	Literary Elements: Frame Story Dialect, Slang, and Jargon See: English Terms


	Writing Due Friday: Developing Voice by Writing in Dialect: Write a short, informal opinion on any topic. Write it at least twice, choosing two or more of the following voices: Hillbilly, Surfer Dude, Bostonian, Inner City, grease monkey, professor, punk-druggie, skater, pro sports guy, new-age mystic guru, King James preacher, young child, California airhead, Texan, New York City, Indian, Cockney, Australian, etc. 21 accents in 2 1/2 minutes


	Week 3: Their Eyes


	To Read or Watch, Week 3: Mon: Author Study: Zora Neale Hurston video Setting Study: Etonville, Florida video1 video2 Ch 5, p 51-68 (17 pgs) Tues: Lennon, John. "Woman is the Nigger of the World" , pg 250. video vers. Brady, Judy. "Why I want a Wife". pg 252. Ch 6, p 69-95 (25 pgs), followed by focus Q4. Wed: Their Eyes Were Watching God. Film. Darnell Martin (dir.) 2005. First 50 minutes. Thurs: write essay Fri: Ch 7-8, p 96-108 (12 pgs)


	Literary Elements: Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a comparison is implied by analogy but is not stated; the comparison of two unlike things without the use of "like" or "as" ("us colored folks is branches without roots." page 15) XXX See English Terms Simile: a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" ("Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone." p 8) XXX See English Terms Personification: a metaphorical figure of speech in which animals, ideas, things, etc. are represented as having human qualities (the night time put on flesh and blackness.", page 10) XXX See English Terms


	Writing Due Friday: Option 1: Write an essay, minimum of five-paragraphs, any topic, using metaphor, simile, and personification. Option 2: What is the relationship among the history of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston's life, and Their Eyes were Watching God? Option 3: Write "I Want a Husband" in response to Judy Brady's Why I want a Wife"


	Focus Questions What qualities do effective leaders share? How do you live a life that will inspire others? How can you lead through relationships with people as opposed to leading through control over people? How do ordinary people transform into extraordinary individuals? What factors influence the development of leadership qualities?


	Quotations "Story is a basic principle of mind. Most of our experience, our knowledge, and our thinking is organized as stories. The mental scope of story is magnified by projection - one story helps us make sense of another." Mark Turner, cognitive scientist. The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." Virginia Woolf It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. "Invictus" Henley There was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years. "There Was a Child Went Forth" from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman I am a part of all that I have met. "Ulysses" A.L. Tennyson


	Week 4: Their Eyes


	Mon: Ch 9, p 109-114 (5 pgs) Tues: "On Friendship" Poem from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran The Love Chapter Trophy wife Ch 10-12, pg 115 (21 pgs)- followed by focus question 5.


	Wed: Golding, Barrett. Excerpt from "The Sound of 1930s Florida Folk Life" NPR. Audio and Text Files. Audio 22 min. "Zora Neale Hurston, Through Family Eyes" Liane Hansen's interview of Lucy Ann Hurston" Weekend Edition Sunday 1-14-04 Grosvenor, Vertamae. "Crafting a Voice for Black Culture". Morning Edition: NPR Intersections. 8-04-05. Alice Walker on Zora Hurston's "Spiritual Food" Edwards, Bob. "Interview of Alice Walker". NPR. 4-26-04. (Can print using free trial membership) Ch 13-15, p 138 (22 pgs) Next Section of Film Their Eyes Were Watching God. Darnell Martin (dir.) 2005.


	Literary Element: Irony occurs the when the reader or view encounters a sharp difference between reality on the one hand, and appearance or expectation on the other. See English Terms


	Writing Due Friday: Character Analysis Using a character analysis chart, analyze Hurston's character development of Janie and the minor characters in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Note the function of the major and minor characters, character development, motives and causes for action, and describe the function of the moral dilemmas in the novel.


	Week 5: Their Eyes


	Additional Materials for Their Eyes were Watching God Folklore & Their Eyes Lesson Plans Incorporating Dialect Study into the Language Arts Class Hazen, Kirk Teaching About Dialect. ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics Washington DC. Dialect Lesson Plans from National Geographic Dialect Lesson Plan from ReadWriteThink Walker, Alice. "Janie Crawford". from Good Night, Willie Lee (also printed in Alice Walker in the Classroom, Carol Jago). Goodwin, Jan. "Buried Alive: Afghan Women Under the Taliban".


	To Read or Watch this Week: Wed: Ch 16-17, p 162 (14 pgs) Thu: Ch 18, p 177 (13 pgs) Fri: Ch 19, p 192 (21 pgs) and Ch 20, p 216 (3 pgs) Thurs: Finish Film. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Darnell Martin (dir.) 2005. Fir: Two Read-Aloud Freebies: "Richard Cory" and Herriot, James. "Chapter 61". All Creatures Great and Small. Genre Study: Parable and Proverb


	Writing for Week 5: Comparison Essay Review the leadership qualities you identified in this unit and in your family stories. Compare your initial thinking about leadership and values with your current thinking about leadership characteristics. How does your understanding of the role of story influence the function of leadership?


	Week 6: Their Eyes


	Writing Due Tues: Wednesday