Class 20

Sorry to have missed many of you, but I hope you are safe and at home, warm and away from the weather!

For the next class, please choose one of the following writing topics to develop. It should be at least a page in length and will be expected to have 5 paragraphs. It will be scored using the final exam rubric found on this blog site.

Writing Activity

PREPARATION:
In Hurston’s novel, her father and the store owner Joe Clark (from autobiography) have become Janie’s second husband—Jody Starks. Starks is an individual who would not let Janie participate with the common folk and the exciting life of the town. Joe makes Janie bind up her hair and stay away from the conversations on the porch. For Janie, this is a confining experience—something which causes her to keep her feelings hidden from others and to change in her feelings about her husband. She no longer loves him.
ACTIVITY:
Write about a significant being in your life and how this person’s structure and dictates of rules and thoughts about you have affected you. You can do this positively and negatively.

Writing Activity

OBJECTIVE:
To relate the feelings of love expressed for Tea Cake in the novel. The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of the love between Janie and Tea Cake. In her autobiography, Hurston states that she actually ran away from a lover she had in New York to Haiti, to write and to try to live without him. “I wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in Haiti. It was dammed up in me, and I wrote it under internal pressure in seven weeks.” (DT 212)

Autobiographical Writing Activity

PREPARATION:
Have you ever had a friendship or a loving relationship with someone, that everyone close to you criticized, found fault with and said that this person was not acceptable and was not on your level of society?
Janie’s relationship with Tea Cake was disapproved of by the townspeople, yet, Tea Cake was the most loving person she had ever met.

ACTIVITY:
Write about a memory of a situation or a relationship which was disapproved of by your peers of friends, yet something very good came out of it that was not apparent to everyone.

For Wednesday

we will be going over the questions from the reading (found on this blog). You will be randomly assigned your question set, so make sure you have them all done.

We will also be taking an exam--10 questions

Be ready!