Essential Question:
What does it mean to be an "outsider" in society?
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This essential question, the guiding inquiry for the multigenre project, will be explored through connections to Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) and other texts, as well as creative literary projects utilizing historical sources, research data, and contemporary events.
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Introduction
This project was created for Dr. Alan Brown's Education 654 course at Wake Forest University. Multigenre Inquiry Projects, for our purposes, involve extended inquiry into a self-selected question through a variety of genres that tap into Gardner's (1983) Multiple Intelligences. The genres presented on this site represent projects that students might use in a classroom to enter, explore, and extend a text, in this case, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). This project serves as an example of the sort of long-term and thorough inquiry that we will expect our students to engage with in the classroom.
On the GENRES page, you will find the eight different types of genres that comprise this project, as well as an explanation of how each of the ten projects on this website connect to the genres. Each of the following tabs will take you to a unique project, and each page will define the project more fully and connect it to a genre and its Multiple Intelligences.
The last page features a presentation handout, a condensed version of this project that was presented at the 2018 National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) 2018 Annual Convention in Houston, Texas.
References for each genre can be found in the References tab.
On the GENRES page, you will find the eight different types of genres that comprise this project, as well as an explanation of how each of the ten projects on this website connect to the genres. Each of the following tabs will take you to a unique project, and each page will define the project more fully and connect it to a genre and its Multiple Intelligences.
The last page features a presentation handout, a condensed version of this project that was presented at the 2018 National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) 2018 Annual Convention in Houston, Texas.
References for each genre can be found in the References tab.
William Stuart Kaskay
Wake Forest University
kaskws18@wfu.edu
Wake Forest University
kaskws18@wfu.edu
