Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom - Shea, Renée H.; Wilchek, Deborah L.
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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God. With the publication of her landmark novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston has become a widely taught author in English classrooms across the nation. The authentic voices of her fiction and nonfiction embrace colloquial dialect and explore universal themes of relationships, self-discovery, race, and identity. In Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom, the eleventh book in the…mehr

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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God. With the publication of her landmark novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston has become a widely taught author in English classrooms across the nation. The authentic voices of her fiction and nonfiction embrace colloquial dialect and explore universal themes of relationships, self-discovery, race, and identity. In Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom, the eleventh book in the NCTE High School Literature Series, readers will discover new ways to share the work of this important author with students. The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God. This volume features numerous resources and strategies for helping students engage with Hurston's writing. Highlights include biographical information, critical analysis, teacher-tested activities, writing assignments and student models, and discussion strategies and questions. Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a harp and a sword in my hands" is a useful resource that will enliven any literature classroom with exciting and enriching ideas and activities.
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Autorenporträt
Renée Shea is professor of English and Modern Languages at Bowie State University and currently teaches graduate courses in rhetoric and composition and undergraduate courses in world and contemporary literature; she previous served as director of freshman composition. In 2007, she received the Faculty Regents Award from the University System of Maryland for Public Service. Formerly a member of the development committee for Advanced Placement English language and composition, Shea is currently a member of the development committee for the critical reading section of the SAT. She has worked extensively with the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board as a reader, contributor to the website AP Central, and faculty consultant. A previous chair of the NCTE Committee on World and Comparative Literature, she served a three-year term as a member of the Commission on Literature. For nearly two decades, she chaired the essay section of the GED exam and served as a chief reader. Earlier in her career at the University of the District of Columbia, she directed the M.A. program in composition and rhetoric. Shea coauthored The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric (Bedford St. Martins 2007) and NCTE's Amy Tan in the Classroom: The Art of Invisible Strength. Another coauthored text, The Language of Literature, will be published in 2010. Her profiles, interviews, and critical studies have appeared in publications such as Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo, MaComere, Poets & Writers, Women in the Arts, and The Caribbean Writer on many contemporary authors, including Edwidge Danticat, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rita Dove, Helena Maria Viramontes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Lan Cao.She has written the introductory essay for two books on contemporary abstract painter Marcia Myers: Marcia Myers: Twenty Years (Hudson Hills 2003) and Photographs of Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius (Gebert Contemporary 2008).