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Lesson
Plans- Correlated with the Sunshine State Standards
Zora Neale
Hurston never mentioned her work with the Federal Writers' Project in
her autobiography, perhaps because of the stigma associated with the WPA's
relief programs. Working out of her Eatonville home, she finished her
fifth novel, Moses: Man of the Mountain, while making numerous folklife
collecting trips across Florida.
In 1939,
Hurston went to Cross City, Florida to interview workers of the Aycock
and Lindsay turpentine camp. Material from her essay "Turpentine"
later appeared in her book Seraph on the Suwanee.
Stetson Kennedy
headed the Florida Writers' Project unit on folklore, oral history, and
social-ethnic studies.
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"Turpentine"
by Zora Neale Hurston
Students will read Zora Neale Hurston's essay "Turpentine"
and analyze the document using the Document Analysis Worksheet.
Students will then determine the author's purpose and point of view
and their effects on the text.
(LA.A.2.4)
Benchmark 7. analyzes the validity and reliability of primary source
information and uses the information appropriately.
(LA.A.2.4)
Benchmark 2. determines the author's purpose and point of view and
their effects on the text.
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The
WPA, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Cross City Turpentine Camp
Using additional background information, students will decide
whether Zora Neale Hurston's essay "Turpentine" is an
important part of the written history of the turpentine camps in
Florida in the 1930's.
(SS.A.5.4)
Benchmark 4. -understands social transformations that took place
in the 1920's and 1930's, the principal political and economic factors
that led to the Great Depression, and the legacy of the Depression
in American society.
(LA.A.2.4) Benchmark 7. -analyzes the validity and reliability
of primary source information and uses the information appropriately.
(LA.A.2.4.8) Benchmark 8. -synthesizes information from multiple
sources to draw conclusions.
(SS.A.1.4.) Benchmark 1 -
understands how ideas and beliefs, decisions, and chance events
have been used in the process of writing and interpreting history.
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