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Original Workshop Description for YAL 2011
Listening to Voice, Place, and Culture in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Polly Mills and Germania Solórzano, Presenters
Zora Neale Hurston, while a Federal Writers’ Project Writer in the WPA, explored and examined the voices, places, and cultures of Southern Florida during the height of the Great Depression. She combined her observations with the heightened perceptive skills of a fiction writer to bring forth Their Eyes Were Watching God and other novels, plays, and essays that have taken their place among the most respected works of American literature. In this session, you will participate in games and activities that heighten skills of listening, seeing in the mind, and imagining. You will consider classroom applications of these skills to reading, writing, speaking, and creative problem solving. You will consider how your teenaged students can use these skills at a point in their lives when they are negotiating their relationships to community, place, and complex, multiple cultures. |
