Tuesday 3/2 Assignment

A. Create Blog.
-Title it: David Barry(your name) LOA
-the address should be firstnamelastnameevhs.blogspot.com
-davidbarryevhs.blogspot.com
-Check your name on this page and make sure it links to your new site.

B. Create a Link to the Literature Of the Americas blog:
-htttp://eastviewenglish11.blogspot.com

C. TODAY's ASSIGNMENT:
Answer the following questions on your blog under the post 3/2 Assigment:

1. Why is it important to know something about the author of a story before you begin reading it? What does it help you do? What does it help you understand?


TODAY We will be starting a new novel, but before we do, it is important to know something about the author for all of the reasons you mentioned above.

Zora Neale Hurston

*Black novelist
*Wrote the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God
*Not highly acclaimed when the novel was written
*Experienced a renaissance in the late 1970's
*Spoke of traumas that Black people, especially women, faced in America

2. Please find the following information on the internet. Do not print any materials. Simply take notes off the screen and post here. Please find the following:

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:

MAJOR WRITINGS and BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

AWARDS and HONORS:

TYPICAL SUBJECT MATTER/THEMES:

POPULARITY and CRITICISM: