The Secret Life of Bees (EL 267)
As I mentioned in my EL 267 class last week, Dr. Droppa has agreed to cover for me on Thursday, while I am off at a conference. There will be a quiz on the material we have covered since the last quiz; that quiz will cover the whole of "Bees."
That novel is very popular with literature classes, and you'll find no shortage of online material to help you make sense of it. Particularly interesting to me is this weblog devoted to The Secret Life of Bees (you'll have to scroll down to the bottom to read the comments about the first chapters, of course) and the author's replies to questions from the same instructor's class.
(I'll follow up with more info on the poetry reading exercise shortly.)
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