Untitled Document

Bean Trees Pattern

http://patternoftheday.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/beantrees.png

Read chapters 14-17 in The Bean Trees. Define vocabulary words, if necessary.

Click on the Chapter number for notes:

Click here for all audio files for The Bean Trees.

Using Chrome? Try these:

Chapters 1-6

Chapters 7-12

Chapters 13-17

Choose one of the following to respond to in the discussion board:

Identify two specific events of Taylor’s journey that helped form her identity and strengthened her voice? Explain how.
How is the Taylor at the end of the novel different from the Taylor at the beginning of the novel? How is she the same?
If your name were a color what would it be? Consider your name with the five senses… what does your name smell like? Taste like? Feel like? Sound like?
Complete the following poem (thoughtfully) using similes, metaphor, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia (etc.):
My Name
My name is the color …
My name sounds …
My name smells …
My name feels …
My name is (write your name)

Example:

My name is the color of a ripe orange hanging gently from the tree.
My name sounds like the drip of a drop of dew falling off the a leaf of grass …

Remember the Discussion Board Rubric when composing and responding.

Respond to one (or two) students.

After reading , take the Bean Trees Chapter 14-17 Quiz in Schoology.

NEXT: Lesson 4 Writing