After reading Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ms. Tolmie’s sophomore English classes created posters blending ideas from the novel with a specific lens used to analyze literature from a chosen chapter in How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. Examples of these analytical lenses include: “Every trip is a quest,” “Flight is freedom,” and “It’s all about sex… except sex.” The students were encouraged to take creative risks with their designs, blending printed work, artistic experimentation, and references to popular media. Below are a few of these posters.
