Assignment Calendar

Monday, October 31, 2016

Online Assignment - November 1, 2016

You should now be reading Chapter 18 of "Their Eyes Were Watching God."  As you read this chapter, you will notice many examples of suspense and foreshadowing.  

Your assignment is:
1) Define Suspense and Foreshadowing.  You may use Google or an online dictionary to find these definitions.

2) Provide two examples of each literary device from Chapter 18 of TEWWG.  These examples MUST BE in the form of a quotation, and MUST include the page number on which they were found.


This assignment is due no later than midnight on Monday, November 7, and must be submitted as either an email or a shared Google Doc.  The completed assignment is worth 25 points.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Online Assignment - October 19

Chapters 7, 8, and 9 of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" have some fantastic examples of figurative language in them.  Before you read these chapters, and then as you read, complete the assignment below.  Your answers can be sharing by email or by a shared Google Doc, but they are due by MIDNIGHT on Monday, October 24.

Before you read:
Look up definitions and examples of these types of figurative language.  Share your definitions and examples with me by email or Google Doc by Monday at midnight:

  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Allusion
  • Irony
  • Alliteration

As you read:
Find examples of four of the six types of figurative language listed above in Chapters 7, 8, and 9.  Share your findings with me as a quote and a page number, by email or Google Doc, by Monday at midnight.

For extra credit points, share examples of all six types.

You are welcome to share this as either two separate emails/Docs or as one email/Doc with both parts of the assignment.  Either way, the entire assignment is due by midnight on Monday, October 24.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

In-class Reading Assignment for October 3

Please read this two short essays carefully, because you will need to use information from the readings for an assignment next week.

Reading: History of Eatonville, FL

Reading: Zora Neale Hurston biography

When you have finished the assigned reading, email me answers to these two questions:
1) Who were five of the twenty-nine men who signed the incorporation papers for Eatonville?  What is odd about the men who signed?
2) Who discovered Hurston's grave and published an essay about Hurston?  Where was that essay published, and in what year?

Each answer is worth 10 points.  Your emailed answers are due to me no later than midnight on October 3rd.  Please send the email from your ccs-student email account.