Introduction
In this webquest, you will be instroduced to several key components of the novel for this unit.
- Zora Neale Hurston's biography
- African American folklore
- African American storytelling traditions
- Regional dialect
- Historical events detailed In the novel
These foundational activities will equip you with the information needed to better understand and appriciate the novel as we move forward with the unit.
Task
Each pod will create a google doc and answer each task within that doc. Make sure to write each name at the top of the document so that everyone can get equal credit for the work. Please seperate each section of answers with the heading of the task, so that your quests can be efficiently graded. You will have one class period to complete this quest.
Godspeed.
Process
Zora Neale Hurston's biography
http://www.biography.com/people/zora-neale-hurston-9347659
- Who were Zora's parents?
- When, where, and during what event did Zora write Their Eyes Were Watching God
- What happened to Hurtson's writing after her death?
African American folklore and storytelling traditions
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/2031
- How were stories typically told by African American communities?
- What role does the storyteller play for these communties?
- What did function did the stories provide?
Regional dialect
Historical events detailed In the novel