Please take a moment to view the following playlist. It will give you a brief introduction to our unit on works of non-fiction and literature in times of economic upheaval. We will be reading two texts during this unit, The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan and The Breadgivers by Anzia Yezeirska. After reading both texts; as a class we will explore some of the documents captured by The Federal Writer's Project (WPA) and discuss the manner in which collecting stories of ordinary lives changed not only the face of literature but American culture as well. You will then each conduct an interview of your own (utilizing the same form writers did for the WPA) and you will use this interview as a means to synthesize your own understanding of literature in times of economic upheaval and translate it into a written or creative work. (More details to come, for now enjoy the video and expose yourself to what we will be discussing over the next month).
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