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Their Eyes Were Watching God Novel Study - No-Prep Teaching Unit - 95 Pages

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This was my first time teaching this novel, so I needed a little help determining my focus. This was just what I needed.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Novel Unit - 95 pages of worksheets, activities, quizzes, tests, resources, supplemental teaching ideas, and more for Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Used in over 1,000 classrooms, with a 4.7/5 Rating! Please note that this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.

This Their Eyes Were Watching God Teaching Guide includes:

Supplemental informational texts and resources for addressing historical context and themes before and during reading

❇️ Author Biography on Zora Neale Hurston with comprehension questions

❇️ Anticipation/Reaction Pre-Reading Activity

❇️ Informational Text article with questions on the History of the Town of Eatonville

❇️ Informational Text article with questions on the African-American Oral Tradition

❇️ Informational Text article with questions on Post-Civil War Segregation

❇️ Informational Text article with questions on The Great Migration

❇️ Informational Text article with questions on the Harlem Renaissance

❇️ Note-Taking and Summarizing Activities

❇️ Vocabulary Lists with and without definitions

❇️ Plot Map

❇️ Comprehension Check/Study Guide Questions

Literary Analysis Activities, specifically addressing skills practice on:

✴️ Dialect

✴️ Figurative Language

✴️ Characterization

✴️ Types of Conflict

✴️ Allusions

✴️ Imagery

✴️ Point of View

✴️ Analyzing Poetry

✴️ African-American Folklore

✴️ Voice

✴️ Symbolism

✴️ Theme

Language/ Vocabulary lesson worksheets and activities addressing skills practice on:

✴️ Word Roots

✴️ Vocabulary in Context

✴️ Connotation/Denotation

✴️ Analogies

✴️ Which Word Fits?

✴️ Word Parts

✅ Three Quizzes

✅ Two Types of Final Tests

✅ Novel Summary

Pre-Reading, Post-Reading, Alternative Assessment Ideas and Activities

Essay/Writing Ideas and Prompts

✅ Project and Response to Literature Rubrics

✅ Complete Answer Key

Here's what other teachers are saying about this Their Eyes Were Watching God Unit Plan:

❤️️ Hurston would be pleased at the amazing work put into this unit. Readers are challenged to explore literature in the world that surrounds them. - Melissa W.

❤️️ This resource was a lifesaver for teaching this novel. I found it after teaching the novel last year and it supplemented front loading as well as added to the student's vocabulary completion. I am more pleased with this product than any other TpT product. - Ashlee B.

❤️️ The lessons in this resource are extremely engaging and all of my students participate, but more importantly, they contribute coherent, thoughtful reactions and make great connections to the text. - Lauren H.

❤️️ I love this resource! Each chapter's worksheet covers a different skill, the questions are in-depth and thought-provoking, and I love how easy it was to just print and go. This was my first time teaching this book, and I was so thankful to have this resource and not have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks! - Christina W.

❤️️ I have been teaching this novel for a few years now, but I needed something to enhance the learning experience for my students. This has been so helpful for teaching the novel! Thanks! - Jewelia W.

❤️️ This resource has everything you need for teaching the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"! It was a life saver for me during student teaching! - Yarely L.

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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

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