Assignment ng Texts
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Making Connections between a Text and the World
Read the passage carefully. Choose a connection a
reader could make between the text and society.
In history class, we studied the lives of African
Americans in the Deep South.
This passage opens the short story "Sweat," by Zora
Neale Hurston, an African American novelist of the
Harlem Renaissance.
It was eleven o'clock of a Spring night in Florida. It was
Sunday. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in
bed for two hours by this time. But she was a wash-
woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her.
So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she
returned the clean things. Sunday night after church, she
sorted them and put the white things to soak. It saved her
almost a half day's start. A great hamper in the bedroom
held the clothes that she brought home. It was so much
neater than a number of bundles lying around.
"Sweat,"
Zora Neale Hurston
Last year, I read a novel about a group of domestic
workers.
My Saturday chores include collecting and washing
the laundry.
My family traveled to Florida last summer on
vacation.