Lesson Plan: Analyzing Setting in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by Olivia Scruggs

Objective for Today's Lesson

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:39 UTC

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to analyze how the setting in Chapters 14–16 of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' influences Janie's development and relationships.

Quickwrite Prompt

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:40 UTC

Start class with a Quickwrite: 'What makes a place feel like home?' Spend 5 minutes writing your thoughts before sharing in pairs.

Discussion of Chapters 14-16

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:40 UTC

In small groups, discuss Janie and Tea Cake’s new dynamic in Chapters 14–16. How does living in the Everglades affect their relationship?

Exploring Symbolism in Nature

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:40 UTC

After reading, analyze the symbolism of nature in Chapters 17–18. What does the hurricane represent? Use the text to support your ideas.

Exit Ticket

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:43 UTC

Complete this exit question: 'How does the setting in Chapters 14–16 shape Janie's growth?' Write at least 3 sentences.

Group Reflection

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:45 UTC

End the lesson with a 5-minute group discussion: What did you learn about how setting affects characters? Did your perspective on Janie change?

Complete Chapters 17-18

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:46 UTC

If not finished in class, read Chapters 17–18. Pay special attention to how the setting in the Everglades impacts the mood and themes.

Symbolism Practice

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:48 UTC

Choose one natural element from the novel (e.g., horizon, hurricane) and write a paragraph explaining its symbolic meaning.

Online Practice

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 12:42:50 UTC

Use this online resource to deepen your comprehension of the themes and settings in the book.

Olivia Scruggs

oliviascruggs2 — 2025-04-15 17:51:03 UTC

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Dalton

dcmoseley26 — 2025-04-15 17:51:55 UTC

What makes a place feel like home is a place or sometimes a person that makes you feel safe and comfortable. For example when I am at home I feel comfortable and I feel comforted to be there. Home is with the people you love too. Some people consider another person as their "home" which means they feel comfortable and loved when they are with them or talking to them.

Kadin Scherbarth

krscherbarth25 — 2025-04-15 17:52:30 UTC

What makes a place feel like home is family and friends. A home is just a building that someone sleeps in. What makes a home is having family and friends around you, or somewhere where you feel safe and a place to just relax after a hard days work.

Veronika Topova

vttopova26 — 2025-04-15 17:52:32 UTC

I think memories make a place feel like home. I think the reason we feel close to certain places is because we have made memories there and it reminds us of maybe our childhood or something important and that's what makes us feel like a certain place is our home.

Andrea Abad

amabad26 — 2025-04-15 17:52:59 UTC

I think when your comfortable and when you feel the vibes.

David Yakaulev

dpyakaulev26 — 2025-04-15 17:54:33 UTC

A place that makes it feel like home is having a comfortable feeling when being inside the place and also it is a place where you can stay for a long time with yourself or your family or love one.

Paul Bishop

pdbishop25 — 2025-04-15 17:55:09 UTC

What makes a place feel like home is the people around you that make you feel wanted and cared for, and it's not just four walls and a roof it doesn't even have to be around your family that makes you feel at home it can be your best friends that have turned in to your family

Treasuri W.

tjwatson26 — 2025-04-15 17:55:29 UTC

Having things your own way the way you like things, Having a room that fit for your comfort, Having a clean area to relax and work in, if you have people that stays in your home having a loving & caring environment.

Maksym

mvveremchuk26 — 2025-04-15 17:56:37 UTC

Roof overhead wife and children.

Brandon

basantiagolop25 — 2025-04-15 17:56:49 UTC

What makes a place feel like home? Feeling safe makes a place feel like home. Feeling a loving environment makes a place feel like home. The smell of warm food makes a place feel like home. The sound of the Tv on makes a Place feel like home. The sight of family makes a place feel like home.

Ray

reswaney25 — 2025-04-15 17:57:08 UTC

home should feel comfortable and healthy. it can be found in people or settings, as long as it makes you feel happy and secure.

Makenzie Clark

mmclark26 — 2025-04-15 17:57:21 UTC

what makes a place feel like home for me is if the place has a beach and is tropical, personally new Zealand would definitely feel like home with me. Also I definitely plan on having a pet panther because that's legal there. probably gonna move there when I graduate because why not.

Caden McLaughlin

crmclaughlin25 — 2025-04-15 17:57:23 UTC

The things that makes place feel like home are the memories and a safe place for you to be yourself. For example, after being in a place where you cant speak your mind or feel like you can´t be yourself when at the end of the day you can always resort to that safe place (home).

Arlette N

annavaramirez26 — 2025-04-15 17:57:34 UTC

What makes a place feel like home? Many people usually feel at home when they're around the things they enjoy like family or their hobbies. Someone can even be your home because of how you enjoy your time with them or how they even bring a feeling of peace when you are with them. My place that feels like home is my bed because it is a place where I can go to and relax and can always count on to make me feel at home.

KELTON

kllong26 — 2025-04-15 17:57:46 UTC

What makes my house feel like a home is my family and I wokring and cleaning making my house look better everyday by cleaning it alot and moving things wherever we envision they should be, and organization is what we look for in cleaning our house it helps with where and when things should be like in pairs, seperated, or colorized

Autumn Nottingham

amnottingham26 — 2025-04-15 17:58:08 UTC

What makes a place feel like home is the comfort it brings, the warmness it has, and the familiarity of it all. Home can be your family, or just something that gives you that familiarity of some sort. When you love something a lot it can feel like home to you.

Lukas

lgellis26 — 2025-04-15 17:58:56 UTC

nature around me and the feel of warmth makes me feel at home

Diego Leyva

dlleyva25 — 2025-04-15 18:00:05 UTC

I place that feels like home is somewhere cozy. Somewhere where you can sit down and relax without any negative energy. Somewhere where you can trust people the things you tell them.

monserrat

mccruz25 — 2025-04-15 18:11:56 UTC

when you feel safe with a person it makes you feel like home because you feel like theres alot of love with them and you know that they will take care of you if anything. And sometimes a house doesnt feel like home like when your family doesn't respect you that makes you feel scared and not like home. i think this because i feel like a person you care for and they care for you it makes things feel like home nd you feel better with them.

Paul Bishop

pdbishop25 — 2025-04-15 18:57:36 UTC

The effect of them living in the Everglades was positive because they grew a stronger bond with each other but there also grew jealousy towards the end of chapter 15 because of how much there bond has grown

makenzie clark

mmclark26 — 2025-04-15 18:58:10 UTC

living in the everglades affects Janie and tea cakes relationship by bringing them closer. for example tea cake teaches Janie how to shoot a gun making them equal. Janie is also happier than before because shes finally in a non controlling relationship.

Dalton

dcmoseley26 — 2025-04-15 18:58:18 UTC

They are very happy and loving with each other. She feels a lot more cared for and she is finally happy with her relationship. Since they live in the Everglades this makes them closer because Janie is working with Tea Cake and she is allowed to work with him unlike when she was in Eatonville.

Kadin Scherbarth

krscherbarth25 — 2025-04-15 18:58:28 UTC

Living in the Everglades affects their relationship by making their relationship stronger and learning that you don't need money to be happy in a relationship. It also affects their relationship that Janie is jealous of Nunkie and thinks Tea cake is hooking up with Nunkie and we find out that Tea cake has to deal with Janie trust issues.

annavaramirez26 — 2025-04-15 18:58:34 UTC

In Chapters 14-16, living in the Everglades affects their relationship in a positive way. Janie and Tea Cake get closer together in many ways like working together and also moving somewhere else where it is just them two. Their relationship starts to develop more connection than ever before and they also have a stronger bond.

Veronika Topova

vttopova26 — 2025-04-15 18:58:46 UTC

I feel like they got closer and their relationship was able to grow. Since they don't live around judgmental people anymore, they are able to be free about their relationship. Also they got to spend more time together, they seem happier.

autumn

amnottingham26 — 2025-04-15 18:59:00 UTC

Janie and Tea cakes new dynamic is that they are way more bubbly, and more close with each other they're starting to get out and do more things together. Because they are living in the everglades Janie is able to work outside and go hunting and fishing and require her to put fourth more physical effort, unlike her other marriages.

Treasuri W.

tjwatson26 — 2025-04-15 18:59:41 UTC

Janie and TeaCake moving to the everglades affected their relationship by bringing them closer together. It gives them time to spend more time together and she is not being controlled in a relationship anymore.

KELTON

kllong26 — 2025-04-15 19:00:11 UTC

Tea and Janie started living in a shack that became there home, as they started to provide for themselves and have good people around them. This changed their relationship by Janie knowing what it is like to be free and do whatever she wants but also feeling something she has never felt before, jealousy as she mistsked Tea Cake for cheating on her for Nunkin thinking that she is too old for him and making him lose interest in her.

David Yakaulev

dpyakaulev26 — 2025-04-15 19:00:21 UTC

The relationship during Janie and tea cake when being in the everglades is that their relationship is being more connected with each other and that both of them are very trustworthy with each other and also their are just very happy with the life they are living with.

Andrea Abad

amabad26 — 2025-04-15 19:00:24 UTC

Him and her became close since they move in everglades and when they moved there more people come and works in the fields and there's a girl that works there in the fields and Janie sees her with him and became jealous he explained and she don't believes him but she still loves him and she cares to him deeply and he does too.

lgellis26 — 2025-04-15 19:00:30 UTC

Shes changed from being resentful, depressed, and hated. To being loved, cared for, and given respect from her partner. Because she is getting the love that she never gotten from past relationships, she has become more possessive over her husband with made her more prone to violence and abusive which came from Joe her past relationship.

Paul Bishop

pdbishop25 — 2025-04-15 19:00:33 UTC

It shapes Janie's growth by showing how much she has adapted. Also how she is living happier then when she lived in Eatonville. And also showed how much her bond with Tea Cake has Grown.

Makenzie Clark

mmclark26 — 2025-04-15 19:01:29 UTC

the setting in chapter 14-16 of the great Gatsby helps with Janie's growth because she finally has achieved what she has wanted all her life which is love and equality. this therefore leads to her growth because she no longer feels that she has to do anything now she does it without a problem because she WANTS to do it.

Brandon

basantiagolop25 — 2025-04-15 19:01:29 UTC

In chapters 14-15 Janie's and Teacake's relationship is way better because Teacake treats her as equal and genuinely loves her, he would leave work in the middle of the day just to go see Janie because he missed her. In chapters 15 Janie feels jealousy for the first time and it is important because she had never felt jealousy for her other two husbands before.

Caden McLaughlin

crmclaughlin25 — 2025-04-15 19:01:34 UTC

Through chapters 14-16 Janie and tea cakes dynamics changed when they started living in the everglades because it started to affect this relationship in a positive way. Their relationship compared to Janie´s past ones isn't just one-sided instead its more pure-hearted by both characters.

monse

mccruz25 — 2025-04-15 19:01:44 UTC

It brings them together and they become more happy and she feels happy. Its more healthy then her another marraged. She feels like home with, and they do a lot of things together. She catches feelings for him and feels something she never felt.

Dalton

dcmoseley26 — 2025-04-15 19:01:54 UTC

The setting affects her growth because she is able to go fishing and hunting with Tea Cake. She is not expected to be this normal stereotypical wife like she was expected to be in Eatonville. She is happier here then she was when she was in Eatonville because she actually feels like she is free to talk or do stuff she was not allowed to in Eatonville.

Diego Leyva

dlleyva25 — 2025-04-15 19:02:10 UTC

The effect of them living in everglass is really important and changes how their relationship is. Jaine really likes how tea cake cooks and cleans the dishes with her and teaches her how to hunt with him. In jaines past relationships she has had to only sit at home and cook and clean .

Veronika Topova

vttopova26 — 2025-04-15 19:03:09 UTC

The setting in chapters 14-16 shaped Janie's growth because she isn't getting judge as much anymore. She also isn't around the toxic people and environment that has broken her. Back in Eatonville Janie was told to stay quiet and not talk back to men, but in the Everglades she got to talk and voice her opinions. Even thought she didn't have the fancy house and clothes she was still very happy and felt like she was home, like she belonged there.

Kadin Scherbarth

krscherbarth25 — 2025-04-15 19:03:27 UTC

Janie goes from being in a big white house and being financially stable, but not in a healthy relationship with Joe. Janie now lives with Tea cake but they are pretty much broke and living paycheck to paycheck without a paycheck and having to hunt for their food, but she is happy with tea cake. The setting goes from a rich setting to a more in the wild setting and affects her lifestyle and her trust issues with tea cake.

annavaramirez26 — 2025-04-15 19:04:00 UTC

In Chapters 14-16 Janie and Tea Cake both move together to the Everglades. Janie grows by doing things she wasn't able to do before like working and handling a weapon for hunting. Janie is also so much happier than ever before compared to her past relationships because she is in a relationship where she feels appreciated, loved, and treated with equality. This marks Janie's growth by achieving everything she has ever wanted like feeling love and now being able to do anything she wants (freedom).

autumn

amnottingham26 — 2025-04-15 19:04:13 UTC

The setting in chapters 14-16 shape Janie's growth by allowing her to be more outside while working and doing things that would've been seen as only a man's job. The setting allows her to feel more comfortable and more lively at her home on the porch with all of her new friends and Tea cake. She gets to be more of herself and not have anything hold her back from getting to do what she wants to do.

Treasuri W.

tjwatson26 — 2025-04-15 19:04:44 UTC

I think that she has growth by her being able to be treated as an equal in he relationship. She is no longer sad and depressed in a relationship she is now loved and happy. she has also become more jealous.

Andrea Abad

amabad26 — 2025-04-15 19:04:55 UTC

It shapes Janie's growth about how they love each other and the way it shows equality of there love. It also shows how she is much happier with him and how he treats her and taught her new things like haunting. She likes living with him and she enjoys spending time with him in everglades.

dpyakaulev26 — 2025-04-15 19:05:09 UTC

The growth of Janie during the chapters 14-16 is that she is very happy with the life she is living right now with tea cake. Also Janie experiences jealousy during chapter 15 that she has never experienced before for her.

Diego Leyva

dlleyva25 — 2025-04-15 19:05:55 UTC

This setting in chapters 14-16 effects jaines growth relationship wise. Her appreciation that she has for tea cake has grown. Tea cake does almost everything with her instead of just have her sitting at home to only cook and clean.

Caden McLaughlin

crmclaughlin25 — 2025-04-15 19:07:09 UTC

The setting in chapters 14-16 shows janie´s growth in her self-identity and freedom. with her living in the everglades even though she has little to none compared to her having a lot of money she wasn't happy. This shows her self exploration.

monserrat

mccruz25 — 2025-04-15 19:08:34 UTC

That her dreams finally came true because she always dreamed about having a loving and caring relationship. Her pass relationships were mean to her would hit her she was unhappy with them they would make her do thing she didn't want to do. And with her new husband she feels free and feels good with him.

Ray

reswaney25 — 2025-04-15 19:08:54 UTC

In chapters 14-16, we see Janie and Tea Cakes relationship become more complex and expressive with each other. Due to her past relationships, we see some of Janie's trauma responses when she becomes jealous and skeptical with Tea Cake. This emphasizes how deeply she cares about Tea Cake, because she never felt jealousy or a fear of loss with her past lovers. Tea Cake treats Janie as an equal, and always tries to reassure her whenever she has doubts about something that involves their relationship. They are free to express themselves without criticism, and are comfortable with each other.

Brandon

basantiagolop25 — 2025-04-15 19:10:52 UTC

The setting in chapters 14-16 defines Janie's growth because the setting in Eatonvile is very sad and she feels trapped. But in the Everglades she is free and happy, she also builds the best relationship she's had, which took her more than 40 years!

kllong26 — 2025-04-15 19:11:41 UTC

The everglades changed Janie in ways of feelings as she felt mainly two, freedom and jealousy, she was happy because she was being treaty as Tea-Cakes equal and actually was happy she was doing so much that she would not be allowed to do.She felt tons of jealousy from a girl named Nunkin and got jealous assuming that Tea-Cake was cheating on her for Nunkin