Web Quest: Zora Neale Hurston and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Directions: Use the websites provided to find the answers for this Web Quest. Put your answers on a sheet of paper.
1. When and where was Zora Neale Hurston born? Where did she move as a young girl?
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html
2. Given your knowledge of the time and place, what kind of world did Hurston grow up in?
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html
3. What was the extent of Hurston’s education? Considering her gender and color, does this surprise you? Explain.
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html
Go to the following site for “Eatonville, Florida” http://townofeatonville.com/
4. When, and by whom, was Eatonville founded?
5. Who was it named after?
6. What is significant about Eatonville and African-American history?
7. What kind of achievements is Hurston noted for?
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/hurston/hurston.htm
8. Use Google to look up “The Harlem Renaissance.” What was it?
9. When and where did it occur?
10. Who were some of the key participants?
11. Use Google to look up when (and how) Zora Neale Hurston died.
12. Look up a definition of vernacular language. Explain in your own words what the term means and how it might be applied to the novel we are about to read, which takes place in the Deep South.
13. Us the following link to explore Hurston’s use of Florida as a setting for African American folk life (scroll to the bottom of page 2 of the document you find there, and read the short article called “Scholarly Criticism on the Use of Florida…):
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076693/00001
14. Why was Hurston criticized by other African American writers at the end of her literary career?
15. According to Hurston, what role should “cultural forms” play in the writing of African Americans?
Using the same document, scroll down to page 5 to the article “Hurston and Hughes: Competing ‘Public Intellectualism’.”
16. Explain how Mule Bone was supposed to be an example of “real Negro art theatre.”
17. According to the article, why was it “problematic?”
18. How have African-Americans historically dealt with oppression and self-identity in this country? Offer some reasons why.
Directions: Use the websites provided to find the answers for this Web Quest. Put your answers on a sheet of paper.
1. When and where was Zora Neale Hurston born? Where did she move as a young girl?
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html
2. Given your knowledge of the time and place, what kind of world did Hurston grow up in?
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html
3. What was the extent of Hurston’s education? Considering her gender and color, does this surprise you? Explain.
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html
Go to the following site for “Eatonville, Florida” http://townofeatonville.com/
4. When, and by whom, was Eatonville founded?
5. Who was it named after?
6. What is significant about Eatonville and African-American history?
7. What kind of achievements is Hurston noted for?
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/hurston/hurston.htm
8. Use Google to look up “The Harlem Renaissance.” What was it?
9. When and where did it occur?
10. Who were some of the key participants?
11. Use Google to look up when (and how) Zora Neale Hurston died.
12. Look up a definition of vernacular language. Explain in your own words what the term means and how it might be applied to the novel we are about to read, which takes place in the Deep South.
13. Us the following link to explore Hurston’s use of Florida as a setting for African American folk life (scroll to the bottom of page 2 of the document you find there, and read the short article called “Scholarly Criticism on the Use of Florida…):
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076693/00001
14. Why was Hurston criticized by other African American writers at the end of her literary career?
15. According to Hurston, what role should “cultural forms” play in the writing of African Americans?
Using the same document, scroll down to page 5 to the article “Hurston and Hughes: Competing ‘Public Intellectualism’.”
16. Explain how Mule Bone was supposed to be an example of “real Negro art theatre.”
17. According to the article, why was it “problematic?”
18. How have African-Americans historically dealt with oppression and self-identity in this country? Offer some reasons why.