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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God. With the publication of her landmark novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston has become a widely taught author in English classrooms across the nation. The authentic voices of her fiction and nonfiction embrace colloquial dialect and explore universal themes of relationships, self-discovery, race, and identity. In Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom, the eleventh book in the NCTE High School Literature Series, readers will discover new ways to share the work of this important author with students. The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God. This volume features numerous resources and strategies for helping students engage with Hurston's writing. Highlights include biographical information, critical analysis, teacher-tested activities, writing assignments and student models, and discussion strategies and questions. Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a harp and a sword in my hands" is a useful resource that will enliven any literature classroom with exciting and enriching ideas and activities.

Renée H. Shea is professor of English at Bowie State University, part of the University System of Maryland and one of the oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Formerly director of English composition, she currently teaches courses in world literature, American autobiography, women's studies, and rhetoric. She is also a member of both the honors and the graduate faculty. Former chair of the NCTE Committee on Comparative and World Literature, she is currently a member of the Commission on Literature. She has worked with the College Board's Advanced Placement English Program for over twenty-five years and coauthored Teaching Nonfiction in AP English: A Guide to Accompany 50 Essays (with Lawrence Scanlon). She chairs the Essay Committee for the GED exam and has consulted on assessment issues for school districts and private organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Shea has written extensively on contemporary women writers (including Rita Dove, Edwidge Danticat, Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, Julia Alvarez, and Maxine Hong Kingston) in such publications as Poets & Writers, Women in the Arts, and Callaloo. She is the author of two college textbooks, Essay: Reading with the Writer's Eye (with Hans Guth) and A Practical Rhetoric for College Writers (with Evelyn Taylor).