Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

• Read the biographical information on Hurston (836).
• Read the excerpt from Dust Tracks on a Road. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the irony in the last paragraph? What does it reveal about Hurston's character?
2. Some of Hurston's contemporaries in the Harlem Renaissance criticized her for writing about African American life and not the oppression of African Americans by whites. Looking at this excerpt, do you think this criticism is justified? Why or why not?

The Great Gatsby
(read the section that begins with "We walked through a high hallway..." and ends with "I'm p-paralyzed with happiness." (7-8 or 12-13))

• Draw a picture of this setting on construction paper.
• On the back, write what this setting and description reveals about the characters included.