PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Their Eyes Were Watching God
This video [4:00] from the American Masters film Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun examines Zora Neale Hurston and her famous novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God." In this resource, students delve into the novel's title in greater...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching God [Pdf]
This is a two-page PDF of Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston courtesy of EDSITEMENT. It is a chart for student to use to compare folklore used by writers in south Florida with Hurston's work.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Composition: Their Eyes Were Watching God
This is an introduction to the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, which was hailed for its mastery of the southern black dialect and its artistic style and symbolism.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:american Lit and Comp:their Eyes Were Watching God: Folklore
This lesson focuses on folklore including defining it, its alternative title of local color, and discussing its use in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It provides two handouts: "Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapters 1 5
In this lesson students will complete an anticipation guide and then read Chapters 1-5 of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It includes a study guide, a journal writing assignment, and a quiz over the selected chapters.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapters 6 10
In this lesson students read chapters 6-10 of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It discusses symbolism in the novel including its three major symbols: the pear tree, the lamp, and the mule. It provides a study guide, a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapters 11 15
In this lesson students read chapters 11-15 of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It includes a study guide, a journal writing assignment, and a quiz over the assigned chapters.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapters 16 20
In this lesson students complete an anticipation guide and then read chapters 16-20 (the conclusion) of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It includes a study guide, a journal writing assignment, and a quiz over the...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Zora Neale Hurston
Wikipedia offers a biography on African American author Zora Neale Hurston discusses why her work was prominently ignored compared with her comtemporary Richard Wright.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Zora Neale Hurston
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides opportunity for presenting the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Students read a passage about her life and then ask questions using the Activotes.
Other
Zora Neale Hurston: Women in History
The African American novelist Zora Neale Hurston is described with facts, accomplishments, and links to web sites for further research.
Other
Wired for Books: "Their Eyes Were Watching God"`
Professors discuss the book by Zora Neale Hurston. Gives insight into the style and character analysis.
Curated OER
Writer Zora Neale Hurston, Pictured in Florida in 1935.
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Com'on Down to Eatonville, Florida
You are Mayor Joe Starks from the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and you want more people to relocate to Eatonville, Florida. Identify five amenities that may make Eatonville attractive to African-Americans...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community and the Folk, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
A story that examines African American community in a rural setting. Zora Neale Hurston's (1891-1960) brief tale "Spunk" is provided within this resources and documents the expressions of southern black "folk."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Reading Questions [Pdf]
Reading questions for each chapter of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Spunk
A learning module that begins with "Spunk" by Zora Neale Hurston, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Sweat
A learning module that begins with "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Zora Neale Hurston
This detailed site offers lesson plans, rationales, teacher notes and various activities for teaching the novel to junior classes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great source for discussing literature questions about Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides quiz questions about chapter's 1-4 in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.