Their+Eyes+Were+Watching+God



** "Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. ** ** They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves." ** ~ Zora Neale Hurston, //Their Eyes Were Watching God// Moodle Web Address

Stixy - Week 1 Password: Eyesweek1

** Moodle Discussion Forum: ** Because you have become my guinea pigs for most of my technology adventures, we are going to be trying a new site (well, new to me) for our discussion forums. This forum will be a bit different in that you will not see anyone's response until you have written your own. Once you've posted a reply (avoiding 1st and 2nd person pronouns and using textual support of course), other replies will appear. At that time, you will respond to at least two others. As the moodle discussion forum seems to be acting wonky, I will post the possible questions here for the first reading so you are prepared to answer tomorrow (in whatever forum I can figure out):

1. Explicate the symbol of Logan Killicks.

2. Identify and explicate how the dominant element in the first 2 paragraphs establishes the tone and theme of the novel.

3. Identify and explicate how the dominant element on pages 10 – 11 (paragraph beginning “It was a spring afternoon…” through “…Johnny Taylor lacerating her with a kiss.”) develops Janie’s character.

** Reflect and Connect blog: ** While blogging for this unit, we are going to construct our blogs in two components: 1. your textual response (reflection) and 2. your visual response (connection). These can be done in either order, but they both must be included and they should be placed ON the wiki page rather than in the discussion forum as we have done for past books. Once you have the blog entry updated, go to your discussion forum and open a discussion topic that is titled according to the reading assignment and date so others may respond to your entry.

Your textual response (reflection) is your gut reaction to the reading assignment. What did you (dis)like? What did you notice? What did you wonder about? What didn't make sense? This should be a minimum of one paragraph in length, but please feel free to expand.

Your visual response (connection) is a picture, link to a site or video, embedded video, etc. that connects the reading assignment to something contemporary. In addition to the visual, you need to explain the connection to your audience.

Feel free to be as creative as you like with the construction of your blog, but remember to clearly date and identify to which reading assignment each entry pertains.


 * YOUR BLOG MUST BE DONE BEFORE YOU COME TO CLASS ON THE DATE IT IS DUE. **

** Weekly Stixy: ** Every Friday, several literary elements and rhetorical devices from the week’s reading assignments will be posted on a Stixy site. You must choose two, identify what elements they are and explain how they fit the definitions of those elements. Things to remember: include your name on the post-it or I won’t be able to grade your work, only two people may post per element AND the person who posted before you may be wrong, so think for yourself!

**Due March 15**: //Read// pp. 1 – 19 (Chapters 1-2); //Post response// in the moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. **March 16**: //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (this must be done __before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **March 17:** //Read// pp. 20-31 (Chapters 3-4); //Post response// moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. **March 18:** //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (this must be done __before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **March 21**: //Read// pp. 32-47 (Chapter 5); //Post// response moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. //Weekly Stixy// **March 22**: //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (this must be done __before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **March 23**: //Read// pp. 48-72 (Chapter 6); //Post// response moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. **March 24**: //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (this must be done __before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **March 25**: //Read// pp. 73-95 (Chapters 7-10); //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (__before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **March 28**: //Post// response in Discussion forum moodle Discussion Forum and reply to 2 others. //Weekly Stixy// **March 29**: //Read// pp. 96-129 (Chapters 11-14); //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (__before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **March 30**: //Post// response moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. **March 31**: //Read// pp. 130-145 (Chapters 15-17); //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (__before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others **April 1**: //Post// response moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. **April 4**: //Read// pp. 146-159 (Chapter 18); //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry (__before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others; //Weekly Stixy// **April 5**: //Post// response moodle Discussion Forum and //reply// to 2 others. **April 6**: //Read// pp. 160-184 (Chapters 19 - 20); //Post// a Reflect and Connect blog entry(__before entering class__) and //respond// to 2 others