Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honors Extension Text

• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

• "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
• "They Shut Me Up in Prose" by Emily Dickinson
• "What Do Women Want?" by Kim Addonizio
• "To the Ladies" by Lady Mary Chudleigh
• "Phenomenal Women" by Maya Angelou
• "Women" by May Swenson
• "Women Should be Pedestals" by Mary Swenson
• "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy

Short Fiction (choose 2 or 3)

• "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
• "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin
• "Without Wood" excerpt from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan - Available in the CHS library
• "Trifles""A Play in One Act" by Susan Glaspell
• "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell
• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gillman Perkins

Multimedia

• "The Color Purple" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "The Joy Luck Club" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (film) - Available in the CHS library

The library also recommends:

Documentaries/Movies:

• The Help
• Hidden Figures
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Race (Jesse Owens biopic)
• Gender Revolution with Katie Couric (National Geographic documentary)
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (PBS)
• Victorian Slum House (BBC reality show where modern people try to live in a tenement house circa 1860-1910)

Short Videos:

• Their Eyes Were Watching God from Crash Course Literature [11 minutes]

Websites:

Articles:

Books:

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention" ("Ain't I a Woman?") by Sojourner Truth
• "Address to the Legislature of New York on Women's Rights" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• "Declaration of Sentiments" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• "The Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson, et al.
• "A Disappointed Woman" by Lucy Stone Option 2

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "The Right to One's Body" by Margaret Sanger
• "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" by Alice Walker Ms. Magazine, March 1975