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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Zora Neale Hurston

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This site provides information and activities focused around Zora Neale Hurston's life and work. Check out this site featuring links to several sites focused on Hurston's work.

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When I Set My Hat at a Certain Angle: Trying on Zora Neale Hurston's Voice to Dress-up Prose

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After reading and evaluating examples of prose nonfiction by Zora Neale Hurston and other authors, high schoolers write a personal reflective essay rich in figurative language. By incorporating this strategy, they utilize voice within...
9th - 12th English Language Arts
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Folktales of Zora Neale Hurston

Curated OER
Do you know why woodpeckers have red heads? Why the possum has no hair on its tail? Why a cat has nine lives? Find out by downloading this resource that uses Zora Neale Hurston's collection Mules and Men as the basis of a study of...
7th - 12th English Language Arts
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Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston | American Masters: Alice Walker

PBS
Zora Neale Hurston, her life, her work as an anthropologist recording the customs and speech of southern Black people, and her novels would have remained largely ignored if not for the efforts of Alice Walker. An American Masters video...
2 mins 9th - 12th English Language Arts
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Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston is featured in this biography highlighting her literary contributions which focused on African Americans as whole people, celebrating their heritage, in an era when black authors tended to write about their...
9th - 10th English Language Arts
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Loc: Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Library of Congress
Search or browse a collection of plays by Zora Neale Hurston, whose writing reflects life experiences, travels, research, and study of southern, African-American folklore. At this site, there is also a timeline of Hurston's life and works.
9th - 10th English Language Arts
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Pbs Learning Media: Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston: Alice Walker

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In this video (2:20, Alice Walker discusses how Zora Neale Hurston's ability to portray black people as "undiminished human beings" shaped her as a writer. This is evident in The Color Purple which, like Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were...
9th - 10th English Language Arts
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Zora Neale Hurston

PBS
This is a collection of four media galleries of videos about Zora Neale Hurston and her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
9th - 10th English Language Arts
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Pbs Learning Media: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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This collection uses primary sources to explore Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Digital Public Library of America
Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes Were Watching God has been highly praised and severely criticized for its depiction of African American folk culture. A set of primary source materials, including photographs, articles, essays, and...
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Web English Teacher presents links to information about the famous author C.S. Lewis (1898-1963 CE).
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