Product Overview
This bi-monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 4 Passages for copywork/dictation
- Lessons on grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, literary devices & literary analysis
- Slingshot Planner and Skills Tracker
- Weekly Reading Guide
- Beyond the Passage and Inside Scoop boxes
- Discussion Questions
- Family Book Club Party Ideas
- Guidelines explaining copywork & dictation practices
Note
The Secret Life of Bees touches on mature themes of human experience—abuse, racism, mental illness, suicide, coming of age physically and emotionally, danger, death. The narrator’s voice is raw and unpolished, as are many of the characters. Through the storm, ultimately the book affirms tremendous healing and love and safety and the dignity of every human being. By using a book such as this as a teaching tool to foster understanding and growth, the intimate nature of language and history blend to provide a context in which to discuss these evolving ideologies. You, as the parent, can decide how far you want to step into the room of discourse with your teens as you explore these works. We encourage parents to read ahead in order to be prepared for deep conversations with your teens. (For additional information, please see the “Note on Profanity” Inside Scoop box and the “Then and Now: Race” box in Week One.)
About the Book
The Secret Life of Bees
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to...
