African-AmericanLiterature

Syllabus:

Book Club choices: Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston / Beloved by Toni Morrison / Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Discussions, analysis, and close-reads in book clubs
Connection to poetry
Timed writes
Multiple choice practice
Book club presentation

Related Links:

Harlem Renaissance: http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.03.x.html
Encylopedia Brittanica guide to Black History: http://www.search.eb.com/blackhistory/
Poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar: http://www.plethoreum.org/dunbar/
African-American Poets, Past and Present: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/4/91.04.04.x.html#a
Zora Neale Hurston biography: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm
Toni Morrison website: http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm
Toni Morrison biography: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm
Zora Neal Hurston teacher resource: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hurston.htm
African-American poetry unit: http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama/aapoets.htm
African-American women writers: http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
Langston Hughes: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=84
Phyllis Wheatley: http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html
Maya Angelou: http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/maya/maya1.htm