A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter

<p><strong>A leading novel in the canon of African American literature&#8212;t</strong><strong>his free teaching guide for&#160;Their Eyes Were Watching God&#160;by Zora Neale Hurston is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don&#8217;t know how to live properly.&#8221;&#8212;Zadie Smith</strong></p><p>One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century,&#160;Their Eyes Were Watching God&#160;brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years&#8212;due largely to initial audiences&#8217; rejection of its strong black female protagonist&#8212;Hurston&#8217;s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African American literature.</p>