Week 3: Three Blogs are Required

If you choose to hand write your entries, turn them in on Friday or earlier if you are leaving for a vacation.

Done!

Frogger Bloggers--
You are done with required blogging.  Instead, spend your time on your culminating essay.  The essay is in place of this week's blogs and an end-of-unit assessment.  Remember that it is one of three writing grades for marking period 3 and will really help if you give a stellar effort.  I have samples, if you need to see one.
Flying out over the pond,
Queen Bee

(5/3) Optional Blog

Chapter(s) #11-14

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Create an Animoto video (at animoto.com) that reflects the realizations and life changes that Lily encounters in the last few chapters of the book.
• Include pictures, text, and a relevant song.
• This will count as an extra blog if you wish to complete it.  

NOTE: Paste the url address of your Animoto video on the comment page.

When It's All Over

(3/27) Sitting Vigil

Prompt:
After May commits suicide, August announces that they'll be sitting vigil.


Response Requirement:
-Discuss how different cultures and religions observe rituals regarding death and burial. Why are they important?
-What do they do to the beehives? Why do they do this?

Class Thursday "And the Oscar Goes To..."

Watch each of the Animoto videos below.  

• Listen to the music.  
• Read the message.  
• Ask yourself the rhetorical questions.  
• Which one moves you the most?  
• Which is the most inspiring?

Movie #1
Movie #2
Movie #3
Movie #4
Movie #5
Movie #6

You have one blue chip and one white chip to cast your vote.  Follow the directions on your Beehive worksheet.
  

(3/27) Oh, Susanna!

Chapter(s) #10

Prompt:
Stephen Foster wrote the original lyrics in 1847.
I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I'm going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see

It rained all night
The day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot,
I froze to death
Susanna, don't you cry

Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna
A-coming down the hill

The buckwheat cake
Was in her mouth
The tear was
In her eye
Says I, I'm coming from the south
Susanna, don't you cry

Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

I came from Salem City
with my washpan on my knee
I'm going to California,
the gold dust for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Oh, brothers don't you cry.
Oh, Susannah, Oh, don't you cry for me
I'm going to California with my washpan on my knee.
I soon shall be in Frisco
and there I'll look around.
And when I see the gold lumps there,
I'll pick them off the ground.
I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys,
I'll drain the rivers dry.
A pocketful of rocks bring home,
So, brothers don't you cry.

Response Required: Cover all parts.

• Choose two stanzas  (poetry/musical paragraphs) to rewrite about BEES.  Pick a character.  Pick two.  Whatever you do, stick with the rhythm and flow of the song's original lyrics.  You can also listen to the song online in case you don't know it.   (When you hear it, you'll smack yourself because you do actually know it.)

(3/27) MANDATORY Vocabulary

Compose a short story (1-2 paragraphs) using 14 of your vocabulary words.  You may use first person or third person, whichever suits your story and purpose.

You must choose one story line:

1.     Explain what T. Ray has been doing since Lily left

2.     Explain Zach’s background, childhood, or life goals.

3.     Describe a childhood experience that May, June, August, and April shared.

presumptuous, imbecile, carouse, jagged, smirk, brazen, beseeching, pious, blaspheme, iridescent, consternation, corrugated, flounce, meander, naïve, bona fide, bristle, revelation, righteous, eclectic, hoax, outlandish, deliverance, solace, consolation, incessantly, fidget, scraggly, magnitude, cunning

(3/27) Acrostics

Chapter(s) #8

Prompt:
In Chapter 8, Lily shares an acrostic that she wrote for T.Ray:
D- Despicable
A- Angry
D- Dud of a father
D- Disappointment
Y- Yoke around my neck


Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Create an acrostic for two different characters.  Choose any that inspire you, no matter how large their role in the book is. 

(3/27) My Name is Month!

Prompt:
On page 137, Lily decides if she could have picked a month to be named for, she'd have selected October and gives her reasons.


Response Requirement:

• If you could pick a month to be named after, what would you choose and why? How would you spend your special month?

This must be a strong example of persuasive writing. It does not have to be a five-paragraph essay per say, but it must use the good habits of persuasive writing--hook, transitions, reasons backed up by examples, anecdotes, and topic sentences for each paragraph.

(3/27) Memorable Quotes

Chapter(s) #

Prompt:
I personally love the quote found on page 170: Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top.  The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long."

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Find a quote you love.  Type it for us to see.
• Explain why it helps you make text-to-text or text-to-self connections.

(3/27) Ch. 9 Intro

Chapter(s) #9

Prompt:
"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

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Apply the quote to the events of chapter nine.

(3/27) Freedom Writers

Prompt:
Let's admit it... most of us love Freedom Writers. Lucky for us, it applies to most of our reading. =)


Response Requirement:

• In what ways are Bees and Freedom Writers similar?

(3/27) 911? Hello, it's Lily.

Prompt:
Lily made an important call in chapter 8.  It wasn't to 911, but if it was, what would she be calling about?


Response Requirement:
Think a little more deeply (and not just about health) and imagine what Lily would say to a 911 operator if she needed help with something in her life.

• What would she say?
• If you were on the other end of the line, what would you do to help her? 
  

(3.27) Ch. 8 intro

Prompt:
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. The Queen Must Die

Your Required Response Instructions:

• As we move into Chapter 8, make a prediction about the events to come.
• In what ways does this apply to the novel already?

(3/27) L is for Lily

Prompt:
On page 105, May made  an "L" pancake for Lily. June throws it in the trash.


Response Requirement:

• Besides "Lily," pick an "L" word that applies to Lily. Explain (and use a quote) to show the word's importance.
• Pick one more character and come up with a word that describes them using the first letter of their name.  Explain the word's importance. 

(3/27) Story-telling

Prompt:
One thing we can understand now about August is that she loves stories.


Response Requirement:

• Find a quote that supports the idea that August loves stories.
• What does she mean? Why use that story?

(3/27) Dissect a Song-- You pick!

Prompt:
As we all listen closely to the songs we listen to, it may become apparent that the song perfectly fits with what we read.


Response Requirement:

• Pick out a song that reminds you of Bees. Provide us with a title, artist, and at least some of the lyrics.
• Dissect the song and its meaning. Does the song relate directly to a character? a greater message? a theme?
  

(3/27) The Supremes

Prompt:
The Supremes song that makes Lily think "There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful" (50) is called "Where Did Our Love Go". The lyrics to "Where Did Our Love Go?" are:

Baby, baby
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself

I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee

Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me

Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don't you want me
Don't you want me no more

Ooh, baby
Baby, baby
Where did our love go
And all your promisses
Of a love forever more

I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

Before you won my heart
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
Baby, baby, ooh baby

Baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself

Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
(http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Where-Did-Our-Love-Go-lyrics-The-Supremes/0D470E3B06AB9FF84825693B00112B40)

Response Requirement:

• In what ways does this song relate to the novel thus far? Make a text-to-lyric connection.

(3/20) Animoto!

Chapter(s) #
Segregation is Still a Chasm to Cross articles


Prompt:
Summarize your article (or group's articles using your notes) using keywords and photographs found online.

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Using the article you were given in class, create a 30 second, free Animoto video.  You'll need to set up a free account.  Check mine out for a reminder of what you can do: Civil Rights.  Here's the one you saw in class Tuesday: Constitutional Rights.  You'll have to post your link to your own video in the comment section.
• Your paragraph response should reflect on all the articles you learned about today.  Make a text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world connection here.  

"Prom Night in Mississippi" Trailer

(3/20) The Power of Nonviolence

Chapter(s) # from textbook

Prompt:
John Lewis' "The Power of Nonviolence" catalogs the abuse that civil rights activists and participants endured during restaurant sit-ins.

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• What did abuse of the righteous look like?
• What steps were taken to ensure that the sit-in was well-organized?
• What was the purpose of the sit-in?
• How did local and national governments react?
• Where did the ideas of nonviolence originate?
• Make text-to-text connections to Rosaleen's experiences in the book.