Marriage, Gender, and Love 1/12/2019

Objectives for this lecture:

Their Eyes Were • Students will be able to identify how

love, marriage, and gender affects

Watching God the characters and the plot.

• Students will be able to summarize
MARRIAGE, GENDER, AND LOVE
and show how these elements and
Lecture by Miss Rosangelica Lopez
Grade 11
theme are crucial to the novel.
American Literature

Title Page Lecture Objectives

Quick Summary of Novel via YouTube channel: 60 Second recap.

Standards Addressed:
California State Standards for Reading and Writing Grades 6-12

College and Career Readiness Anchor College and Career Readiness Anchor
Standards for Reading Standards for Writing
Key Ideas and Details: Text Types and Purposes:

 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences
from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions
drawn from the text.
 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development;
summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
 1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using
valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and
information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and
analysis of content.

 3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the Production and Distribution of Writing:
course of a text.
 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style
are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Craft and Structure: Research to Build and Present Knowledge:

 5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and  9. Draw evidence from literary and/or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and research.
and the whole.

 6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

 8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the
validity of the reasoning as w ell as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

 10.Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and
proficiently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgzgr3d3EgE
Taken from https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf
Standards Animation/ Dual Coding

Summary of topics with

relationship to characters • Janie and Logan
and plot. Killicks
• Janie and Jody
Marriage Starks
• Janie and Tea
Cake

Take two minutes and write any relationship Love

• Janie and Nanny
Characters and Plot • Janie and Logan Killicks
that the topics have with the characters • Janie and Jody Starks
Janie and Tea Cake
and/or plot from the novel. •

Gender • Janie's view on it

• Jody’s view on it
• Logan’s view on it
• Tea Cake’s view on it

Educational hook. Mastery hook. Smart Art/ Dual Coding

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Marriage in the novel

Marriage in the novel

Janie
Janie and Logan
1.Logan 2. Jody 3. Tea • Safe marriage

Killicks Stark Cake • Set up by grandmother – arranged

• First marriage • Second Marriage • Third Marriage • Typical marriage for one year
• Lasted a little • Lasted over 20 • Lasted a little
over a year. years until over a year, • Janie took care of home while Logan took care of land and income
• He wanted her husbands death until his
to work • Build a town untimely death • Janie was unhappy when Logan asked her to help out on land too
around farm together • Moved out of
and home • He was older than town together • Failed marriage.
• He was much her • He was
older • Janie was younger
• Janie was unhappy • She was happy
unhappy Smart Art/ Dual Coding

Marriage in the novel Marriage in the novel

Janie and Jody Janie and Tea Cake

• Janie agreed for prospect of better life
• Started off as harmless flirting
• Started off great
• Started a relationship
• They built a town together with a post office and a convivence store
• Moved out of town that Janie and Jody built
• Jody became mayor
• Worked together in the fields
• They were wealthy
• Were practically equals
• Jody became very jealous and manipulating
• Forced Janie to wear a hair turban to cov er her beautiful hair. • Tea Cake did not take any money from Janie
• Janie did not hav e freedom • Felt like a real relationship
• Janie did not feel sorry when he died • Ended tragically due to a rabid dog

Quote about marriage:

“There are years that ask questions and

years that answer. Janie had no chance
to know things, so she had to ask. Did Do you think marriage is seen as a
marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the positive life style in the novel or
unmated? Did marriage compel love like not?
sun the day?” (Hurston, 21)
Take a few minutes to discuss within your group. Be ready to share
with the class after. This Photo by Unknown
Author is licensed
under CC BY-NC-ND

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Gender in the novel

Gender in the novel

“… Ah aims tuh run two plows, and dis man Ah’m

With
Logan
talkin’ ‘bought is got uh mule all gentled up so even
uh woman kin handle ‘im” (Hurston, 27).
Janie and Logan
(In regards to Janie working the field with him)
• At first was traditional.
“…A pretty doll- • Woman work at home, men work on field and
baby lak you is
made to sit on provide income
de front porch
With “Dats all Ah wants tuh know. From
• Switched and wanted woman to work on field
and rock and
fan yo’self and With Gender Tea now on you’se mah wife and mah and at home
Cake woman and everything else in de
eat p’taters dat
other folks plant Jody Stereotypes
world ah needs” (Hurston, 124). • Prompted Janie to leave him
just special for
you” (Hurston,
29).

Smart Art/ Dual Coding

Gender in the novel Gender in the novel

Janie and Jody Janie and Tea Cake

• Felt that woman should stay at home • Equal
• Woman had a role • Worked side by side
• Woman were only as good as their husbands
• No one was above the other
• All about image
• Very controlling • Mentality changed when Tea Cake was bit by
dog
• Rabies made him more aggressive

Love in the novel

Tea Cake
Why do you think Jody felt
obligated to keep Janie
restrained? Logan Jody

Janie
Take a few minutes to discuss within your group. Be ready to share with the
class after.

Smart Art/ Dual Coding

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Love in the novel Love in the novel

Janie and Logan Janie and Jody

• “… Listen, Jody, you aint de Jody ah run off tuh keep
house wid. You’se whut’ left after he died. Ah run off tuh
• “Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, keep house wid you in uh wonderful way. But you
and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if somebody was to wasn’t satisfied wid me de way Ah was. Naw! Mah own
mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make
tell me how, Ah could do it” (Hurston, 23). room for yours in me” (Hurston, 86).
• Conversation between Janie and Nanny about her marriage with • Conversation between Janie and Jody on Jody’s death bed.
Logan
• Janie is stating that she never loved him
• She did not love Logan during the whole • She fell in love with his promises that he never really kept
marriage.
• Fell in love with an illusion.

Love in the novel

Janie and Tea Cake

• “Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah’m lyin’. Nobody else on earth kin Do you think Janie ever loved Jody?
hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom” (Hurston,
109). Do you think Janie will ever find love again, after
• Conversation between Janie and Tea Cake loosing Tea Cake?
Tea Cake expresses his love to Janie with lovely words
Take five minutes to discuss in your group then get
•

• Show admiration to her constantly

ready to share with the class.
• Janie truly loves him.

Progress Monitoring Question

Final Discussion
Answer two of three questions in your groups.
Write a summary answering the questions. (One paper per group)

1. How does Janie interact with Tea Cake in regards to their genders? Compare and
contrast it with Janie’s previous relationships.
2. Does Janie value love in the novel?
3. At the end of the novel, do you think Janie values marriage? Why or why not?
4. How does each relationship affect Janie?
5. Do you think Janie has grown to be a strong person? Why or why not?
6. Do you think Janie was too harsh with Jody during his death?
7. Why is Tea Cake so important to the novel?
8. How does marriage, gender, and love affect the plot?

Be ready to share your thoughts with the class.

Culminating Activity/Question

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