CHAPTER 6,7,8

English 70 Book Report Materials

Complete the following book report based on the chapters you read for this week's assignment.

Book Title: The Secret Life Of Bees

Author: SUE MONK KIDD

PART 1: DESCRIBING
Continue describing the main character in the chapters you read for this week How has Lily changed? Choose two different characters to describe. Do not choose the same characters you chose for chapters 1 and 2.

Character	Appearance Trait	Personality Trait	How do you know? *Support your descriptions by using passages, quotes, or ideas in the book.
Character 1 (Lily):	Her body grows up like a mature girl.	Cheerful, Independent, Mature	*She becomes outgoing and she laughs more than before. * Lily studies many new things when she is working with August and Zack. *P 134 " I was the last person to deserve a halo, but I studied the effect, cupping my hans under my breasts, studying my pink-brown nipples, the thin curves of my waist, every soft and glowing turn. It was the first time I'd felt like more than a scraggly girl. "
Character 2: August	None	Kind, Positive, Optimistic, Infective,	*She treats Lily like her daughter. * August organizes the Daughters of Mary, and I she always encourage other members to be strong. She brings other members hope and energy because she believes everything will be fine.
Character 3: Zach	One-side dimple broad shoulder narrow waist short-cropped hair.	Handsome, Industrious, kind, Humorous,	*He has a good looking. *He is a high school student, but he is working at his vocation. *He teaches Lily about their work, and he gives Lily a beautiful book. *He is dancing when he is working.

What are the main events in the chapters you read? Use the table below to describe three main events in the story according to your opinion.  

Questions	Event 1	Event 2	Event 3
What happened?	P106-112 The Daughters of Mary	P 134-135 Zack gives Lily a notebook-green with rosebuds on the cover.	P 161-163 Lily wrote a letter to her father on the notebook.
When did it happen and where?	*On Sunday, fore 10:00am *In the parlor at the pink house.	*Out of the pink house.	*In her room at the honey house.
Who was involved? What did they say? What did they do?	*August, Lily, June, May, Rosaleen, Queenie and her grown daughter, Lunelle, Mabelee, Cressie, *"Not noe of them knew" * August Told a story, and June played the cello. After the story, they touch the Mary's heart.	* Lily,Zach *"This is for you," "So you can get a head start on your writing." "Lily, I like you better than any girl I've ever known, but you have to understand, there are people who would kill boys like me for even looking at girls like you." *They are talking.	*Lily *She wrote a letter to her father.
Why is this an important event?	Because this even shows us they have a very strong main, and they believe the Mary will brings them bright future, and Lily was changed by them.	Because Zach shows Lily his love, Lily likes Zach too. Their relation probably is going to change, and more things are going to happen.	Because this letter shows us that: In fact, Lily loves her father, and she had been tried to call him father, and she wanted to get his love, but he hurt her heart. Now Lily still love her father, that's why she wants to writes second letter to say sorry.

What do you think will happen next?

I think that:

*Lily and Zack must fall in love, and they have to face many problems.

*Lily will tell August and her sisters about her story.

 *Lily's father still looking for Lily, and he will find out Lily.






PART 2: CRITIQUING
What do you think this story is about? What are the main themes involved (e.g. love, life, courage, discrimination, racism, fear, etc.)? Explain your answer. Share your reflection on your personal blog page.

You can use the following sentence starter to help you:

“This story is about LOVE (theme)  because First, the love between men and women: Lily falls in love with Zach, and June falls in love with Neil. Second, the love between family members: Lily loves Rosaleen, August and her sister, and they also love Lily, because they treat Lily like their daughter, and Lily treats them like her mothers. Third, the love between parents and daughter: Lily love her mother,and she misses her a lot. Lily also loves her father, and she had been tried to get her father's love. At the sometime, Lily's father loves Lily too, because he is looking for Lily when Lily left home, even he doesn't treat Lily like a normal father treats his daughter, and he shows us he hates her mother, but I think how much you hate a person, then how much you love the person.  "

PART 3: VOCABULARY LOG
Gather 5-10 words you did not understand, liked, and/or found interesting in the passage you read for this week, look them up in the dictionary, and complete the table below.

WORD	PART OF SPEECH	DEFINITION	EXAMPLE FOUND IN THE BOOK	PAGE
drizzle	V	very light rain	May drizzled batter on the griddle in the shape of a big L.	103
ingenious	ADJ	clever	Mother's ingenious method of ridding the house.	104
fuss	V	an excited state of agitation	Rosaleen fussed over me the rest of the evening.	112
restrain	V	keep under control	I could not restrain myself.	135
stray	V	lost	I could not locate a stray bee anywhere.	147
excessive	ADJ	beyond normal limits	Maybe all that excessive work had finally caught up with them.	147
plague	N	infestation	A plague that released me.	151
collapse	V	crash	which must have been for people to collapse into with relief after they'd won their cases.	156
awkward	ADJ	embarrassing	I said, hating to intrude but mostly feeling uncommonly awkward around him.	158
parlor	N	living room	I walked in the opposite direction to the parlor.	163