Week 5: Option G T. Ray

Prompt:

T. Ray has appeared.Finally.

• How are you surprised by Chapter 14?
• What is the resolution of the novel?

Week 5: Option F My Mother's Belongings

Prompt:

Lily has received her mother's belongings from August.  Yet, she chooses to carry around something strange with her.

• What does Lily carry around with her?
• Why might she carry it with her symbolically?

Marking Period 3

The marking period closes on Friday!

Complete two blogs this week.

Remember... RATE for both paragraphs (plus figurative language) = a 4/4!

Week 5: Option E The Mother Mystery

When completing open-ended responses, remember to use RATE.

Prompt:

Lily has gone on this journey to learn more about the mystery of her mother. T. Ray painted an ugly picture of Deborah and it is Lily’s hope that T. Ray is lying.

Response Requirement:

•       What does Lily learn about her mother from August?

•       Lily thinks, “Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth.” How is she coping with this knowledge?

Week 5: Option D “The Sick Rose”

When completing open-ended responses, remember to use RATE.

Prompt:

Lily reads this poem in her mother’s book:

The Sick Rose

By: William Blake

O Rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy,

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Response Requirement:

•       Why would Deborah have underlined portions of this poem?

•       How is Lily represented in it?

Week 5: Option C “why some people be mad at me sometimes”

When completing open-ended responses, remember to use RATE.

Prompt:

Read the following poem and make connections to Secret Life of Bees.

Why some people be mad at me sometimes

Lucille Clifton

they ask me to remember

but they want me to remember

their memories

and i keep on remembering

mine. 

Response Requirement:

•       Explain the conflict in the poem.

•       How does the poem relate to Lily’s life?

Week 5: Option B Chapter 12 Intro

When completing open-ended responses, remember to use RATE.

Prompt:

Consider the introduction to chapter 12:

If the queen bee were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic (irrational, anxious). As is, she is shy and skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days confined in darkness, a kind of eternal night, perpetually in labor… Her true role is less that of a queen than mother of the hive, a title often accorded (given to) her. And yet, this is something of a mockery because of her lack of maternal instincts or the ability to care for her young. –The Queen Must Die

Response Requirement:

•       Describe how this metaphor represents Deborah.

•       How does this metaphor represents Our Lady in Chains/Mary?