Our students will have an
opportunity to take a Rock the SAT/ACT Practice Test on Saturday, September 26,
at 7:30 am-11:45 am here at Atlantic Technical College High School. The event will be a Princeton Review Assessment
consisting of ACT and New SAT practice questions to help evaluate student
strengths for these question types. This test will enable students to
sample both test formats and identify their target areas for
improvement. Students wishing to participate must sign up with either Mr.
Mulhern, Mr. Beames, Mrs. Celestino, Mr. Donoso, Mrs. Goldwyn, or Mrs. Lee.
Zora Neale Hurston, an important voice of the Harlem Renaissance, was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and novelist best known for her work, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Sadly, she died in 1960 after suffering financial and medical difficulties. In 1973, Alice Walker, another famous American writer, "rediscovered" Hurston and promoted her body of work. In the classic essay, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," Hurston explores the idea that all of us have multiple selves, depending upon the context and environments in which we find ourselves. Hurston's writing has an ebullience, self-assertiveness, and pride that is particularly evident in this text. She was a flamboyant and dramatic personality, at times clashing with fellow writers from the Harlem Renaissance, who believed that black Americans should use their art to speak out against racial oppression and the white majority. Hurston chose not to align herself with the political ideologies of ot...
