Zora Neale Hurston’s novels and short stories are an example of writing motivated by true life experiences. This unit will focus on the study of Ms. Hurston’s life and how her personal experiences influenced the development of one of her most prized novels, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The goal of the unit will be to use brain based strategies, within an inclusive philosophy to increase the student’s knowledge of Ms. Hurston’s life and how elements of it emerge in her novel. The student’s will be able to use this information to better understand, in Ms. Hurston’s case, the link between personal experience and creative expression. As a culminating project, students will develop a literary work based on their own or a family member’s life experiences.
Posted on March 5, 2013 by Scott Gartlan.	This entry was posted in 2012, Curriculum Units, Vol 2: Reading African American Lives and tagged American, Autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, History, Literature. Bookmark the permalink.