All About the Intro
What does the acronym TAG stand for?
What is Title, Author, and Genre
What character does Janie talk to in the end of Chapter 2?
Phoeby
What is a theme
A central message (not main idea) of a text
What is the first thing you should have in your body paragraph?
Topic Sentence
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston, the author uses the mule to symbolize oppressed women.
This statement is forgetting what part of TAG?
G-genre
Which 3 character(s) physically slap Janie
Nanny, Joe Starks, Tea Cake
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, power and abuse demonstrates character's relationship with each other in the time period presented in the book.
What thematic statement will be discussed in this analysis?
Power/Abuse
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, power and abuse demonstrates character's relationship with each other in the time period presented in the book.
What is the most important part of your body paragraph?
Analysis
What is wrong with the following TAG statement?
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel their eyes were watching god, Jaine changes from being innocent to wise and independent.
The title is now in quotations and is not capitalized.
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Jaine changes from being innocent to wise and independent.
Why does Janie come "back home" to her town?
Tea Cake is dead and she only moved away to be wit him.
Black women. She feels like they are being used by everyone and generally oppressed.
What is incorrect about this body paragraph?
Hurston uses foreshadowing in Chapter 2 when Janie and Nanny were discussing the kissing incident. Since Nanny raised Janie since she was an infant, it was her goal to protect Janie until she was an adult. Nanny says “Ah ast de Lawd when you was uh infant in mah arms to let me stay here till you got grown”
There is no citation.
Nanny says “Ah ast de Lawd when you was uh infant in mah arms to let me stay here till you got grown” (Hurston 77)
What is your first step before you answer the prompt?
Turn the prompt into a question
Tea Cake saves Janie from what? Extra points if you can tell me what it symbolizes?
A rabid dog during their escape from the hurricane floods. This symbolizes his love and sacrifice for Janie.
Name 4 "Thematic Subjects" (one word) that are covered in the book
Death, Love, Marriage, Hope, Freedom, Confinement, Dependence, Journey, Power, etc.
What is wrong with this intro?
In Zora Neale Hurston's short story TEWWG, the author explores the theme of freedom through death through the character Joe Starks. The author uses Joe's death and Janie's thoughts to show that Janie is on her first steps towards financial and physical freedom.
No summary.
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, uses imagery of the pear tree to show Janie's true desires.
How would you correct this statement.
Add "the author" or "Hurston" before uses.
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, the author uses imagery of the pear tree to show Janie's true desires.
Why does Janie feel bad for the townspeople
They never found love. "mah love didn't work lak they love, if dey ever had any" (191)
TAG + _____________ + thematic statement
Fill in the blank
What is strategy
Turn this prompt into a question.
Choose a novel and write a well-organized essay in which you show how a specific death scene helps illuminate the meaning of a work as a whole?
Answers may vary.
How does a death scene show the meaning of a work as a whole?