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The Secret Life of Bees

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Essential Questions

 

  1. How does Sue Monk Kidd, the author, use historical context to help define the characters and the personal issues they have to deal with?
  2. How does Lily mature in this novel?
  3. How do different characters use personal symbols to understand and cope with their situations?
  4. Why is it important for Lily to find out about her mother? Why is it difficult for her to remember or find out about the past?
  5. In what ways does Lily yearn for and welcome community/family? In what ways does she see herself separate from others?

 

Reading Schedule

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Ch. 1

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Ch. 2

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Ch. 3-4

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Ch. 5

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Ch. 6-7

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Ch. 8

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Ch. 9

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Ch. 10

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Ch. 11

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Ch. 12

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Ch. 13

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Williamsburg Conference Schedule

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Class:

Homeroom:

After school:

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Class:

Study Hall:

After school:

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Class:ETHAN

Study Hall:

Homeroom:

After school:

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Class:TAARRAA!

Study Hall:SAMIII

Homeroom:SAMMMM!!!

After school:

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Class:AL

Study Hall:ELEANOR

Homeroom:

After school:

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Class:Meaty

Study Hall:DIANNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ii <3 yu mr.kimmy!

Homeroom: eric neefe

 

After school:

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Class: DAANIII

Study Hall:Andrew

Homeroom:

After school:

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Study Hall: Bobby Wurtz after school: Alina Drufovka

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Bee Quote

 

Events

 

Ch. 1 - SK, AB

 

 

Rosealeen gets arrested pg.23. Lilly talks about what happend the day her mother died. Pages 5-8. AB

Ch. 2 - AS, DTP

"On leaving the old nest, the swarm normally flies only a fewmetres and settles.Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. Eventually, one location wins favor and the whole swarm takes to the air". AS+AB  

 

Ch. 3 - BW, DP

"New beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants" BMW  Lily and Rosaleen have run away. They walk into Tiburon and find the general store with the honey jars, and the store manager tellls them that they are made by August Boatright and she lives in the pink house.            BMW

 

Ch. 4 - TM

 

"Honey bees are social insects and live in colonies. Each colony is a family unit, comprising aa single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The workers cooperate in the food-gathering, nest-building and rearing offspring. Males are reared only at the times of year when their presence is required."

-bees of the world....TM

Lily gets to know everyone one of the Boatwright sisters...TM... MS Varsity Football is UNDEFEATED!!!!

 

Lily arrives at the Boatwright house, and lies her way through her first meeting with the sisters.  She says that her mom is dead, her dad is dead, she's going to see her aunt in Richmond, and that Rosaleen wasn't beaten but tripped.

DL

Ch. 5 - AOC, SM

 "Let imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. Usually the first thing we would have to get used to is the darkness..."

-Exploring the world of social insects.

Steve

 

 

Ch. 6 - AD, DJ

 

"The queen must produce some substance that attracts the workers and that can be obtained from her only by direct contact. This substance evidently stimulates the normal working behavior in the hive. This chemical messenger has been called"queen substance." Experiments have show that the bees obtain it directly from the bady of the queen" (DJ)

-Man and Insects

  • Lily faints.
  • The Daughters of MAry shows up for church
  • Lily went to touch the virgin Mary but she didn't because she wasn't one of the black people(DJ)

Ch. 7 - EN, ET

   

 

Ch. 8 - AL, SR

"Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require its social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die."

 

  • Lily learns about the Black Madonna of Breznichar in Bohemia
  • Lily visits Mr.Forrest's office with Zach to give the lawyer honey and calls her father, asking him what her favorite color is.
  • Lily goes with August on bee patrol and when August lifts the lid of a hive, the bees spin around them, making Lily feel like she was floating in a different world.
  • Lily writes a letter to TRay but then rips it up
  • Lily tells what she loves (Rosaleen, writing stories, Coca-cola with salted peanuts, the color blue, and August) and August tells her that in the Eskimo language there are 32 ways to say love

Ch. 9 - MG, SC

 

"The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication - on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information."

 

- The Honey Bee

Rosaleen, May, June, August and Lily had a sprinkler fight and now June and Lily are chill. Lilly Calls her dad.

Ch. 10 - TH, EK

A bee's life is but short. During spring and summer- the most strenous periods of foraging-a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks...Threatened by all kinds of dangers during their foraging slights, many workers die before they have reached even that age.

 

- After May hears about Zach, shes very upset and runs out of the house. She goes to the river and commits suicide.

 

- The sisters contact the police and Lily lies to police about her backround. The policeman also tells her that she is lowering herself by staying in this house.

 

- Zach gets out of jail.

 

- They have the Vigil for May's death. The daughters of Mary join.

 

- August finds May's suicide note telling her sisters to keep on living because it's there time to live.

Ch. 11 - AS

It takes honeybee wokers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. June decides to get married. They celebrate Mary Day. AS+AB

 

Ch. 12

   

 

Ch. 13

   

 

 

Comments (1)

Dianna<33 said

at 2:55 pm on Oct 25, 2007

ii <3 yu mister kimmy!!

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