December 13, 2012

Bring your extra novel tomorrow for our reading day.

Today we are going to the computer lab and  you will be doing three things:
1. Finish your ode poem.  If you don't know how to do it, Google "How to write an ode poem to a girl"
2. Finish your found poem for The Secret Life of Bees.  If you don't know how to do it, Google "How to write a found poem"
3. Finish your essay on The Secret Life of Bees. See the prompt below if you weren't here yesterday.

If you have extra time, write your own test questions for The Secret Life of Bees.  You will have a test on it Monday and I'd like to give you the opportunity to write some of the questions.
Write your questions in this Google Doc: 
Secret Life of Bees Test

On page 211 in The Secret Life of Bees, August tells June that she hasn't been living her life the way she should have been.  She says: "You've been halfway living your life for too long.  May was sayinig that when it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live.  Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid."

What I'd like you to do is to consider that in some ways you haven't been living your life to the fullest, either.  Your assignment is to tell me about a change that you plan on making in your life so that you can live life more fully.  Be sure to emphasize how it will help make your life fuller. 
3/4 page, due tomorrow, 15 points.
Pre-writing:
Write down three times in your life when you don't feel particularly alive (besides school!)
Write down three times in your life when you feel very alive.
For one of the times when you feel especially alive, write a sentence explaining why you feel alive then.