Assignment Details

Their Eyes Were Watching God

English Classes

3B AP Literature

Date Due

Dec. 8, 2017

Additional Info
We're going to read the first chapter of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Keep a notebook and pen/pencil with you as you read. Jot down any phrases or lines that appeal to your reading senses...that strike you as being what you consider to be "good writing." Every so often, make a comment on why you consider a particular piece of text to be "good writing." This is something you can turn in when we're finished reading the book for an extra 100

What are some words you'd use to characterize Janie after the first chapter?

How much of a problem is Hurston's use of dialect for you?

Based on the first chapter, what's a major theme or idea you'd expect to be explored throughout the novel?
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