Newspaper Reading..

Newspaper Reading: Preparation for Group Discussion

WORD	PART OF SPEECH (Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, etc.)	SYNONYM OR DEFINITION
1.Ecology.	Noun.	The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
2.Exponentially.	Adjective.	Of or pertaining to an exponent or exponents.
3.Negate.	Verb.	To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of.

1) To help with the context for the words you selected, highlight or underline the sentences that contain the three words you gathered.

“They have argues that this human ability allows food production to grow exponentially, as well. “

“Or do humans’ unique abilities to develop new food and energy- production methods negate danger?”

“Carrying capacity itself is a well-known and widely accepted concept in ecology.”

2) In one sentence, explain what the article is about. You can use the following sentence starters to help you: “This article is about…” “The main idea in this article is…”

 The main idea is whether or not the earth has reached its carrying capacity.

Question: What would happen if earth reached its carrying capacity? 

The Secret Life of Bees... Three..

Character	Appearance Trait	Personality Trait	How do you know? *Support your descriptions by using passages, quotes, or ideas in the book.
Character 1 (June):	-African American	-Intelligent -String Headed -Passive Aggressive	“I have noticed that if you look carefully at peoples eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away. Junes eyes turned dull and hard when she looked at me.” (105)
Character 2: (Neil):	-Tall -African American -He wore blue jeans and an undershirt with grease smears on it. -He wore horn-rimmed glasses.	-Gentle -Honest -Kind	“…I found the tallest Negro man id ever seen working on the truck”…(102)
Character 3: (Zachary Taylor):	-Handsome -Has one dimple  -Broad shoulders -Narrow waist -Short cropped hair	-Ambitious -Positive -Self Reliant -Intelligent -Athletic	“Even the whites of his eyes weren’t exactly white. He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist and short- cropped hair like most of the Negro boys wore, but it was his face I couldn’t help staring at. If he was shocked over me being white, I was shocked over him being handsome.” (116)

Questions	Event 1	Event 2	Event 3
What happened?	The Daughters of Mary Arrived. “On Sunday I thought they would go to church, but no, they held a special service in the pink house, and people came to them. It was a group called the Daughters of Mary, which August had organized	The Lady of Chains. Touching the vanishing heart on the Lady of Chains.	What is My Favorite Color? Lily calls T-Ray.
When did it happen and where?	The gathering of The Daughters of may was held on Sundays at Augusts’ house.	The Boatwright’s house.	-Clayton Forrest, Attorney At Law. -A black off Main Street.
Who was involved? What did they say? What did they do?	-A group of African Americans. -“The Daughters of Mary started showing up in the parlor before 10:00 a.m. First was an old woman named Queenie and her grown daughter, Violet. They were dressed alike in bright yellow skirts and white blouses, though they wore different hats, at least. Next came Lunelle, mabelee, and Cressie, who wore the fanciest hats I’d ever laid eyes on.” “In addition to those Daughters,it turned out Mary had one son besides Jesus, a man named Otis Hill, with stubby teeth in an oversize navy suit.”	“Queenie and her daughter went togther and rubbed their palms aginst the wood. Lunelle pressed her fingers to May’s heart, then kissed each one of them in a slow deliberate way, a way that brought tears to me eyes. Otis pressed his forehead to the heart, like he was filling up his empty tank. -June kept playing while each of them came. -Rosaleen touched the heart. -Lily rose from her chair and walked toward the black Mary, as she reached her arm out to her heart, June had stopped playing the music. -Lily fainted.	-Lily and T-Ray. -“Miss Lacy’s phone sat right there on her desk. I picked up the receiver and dialed 0 for operator. “I am making a collect call. “I told her, and gave her the number. Almost faster than I would’ve believed heard the phone in my house ringing. A stared down the hallway at the closed door and counted the rings. Three, four, five, six.  “Hello” - T-Ray asked Lily where the hell she was. - “T-Ray I’m sorry I have to leave but-“ As the conversation went on T-Rays anger escalated. -“You tell me where you are right now, do you hear me? Do you have any idea the trouble you’re in? Busting Rosaleen out of the hospital-holy shit, what were you thinking?” “I was only-“ “Ill tell you what you were. You were a goddamn fool who went looking for trouble and found it. Because of you I cant walk down the street in Sylvan without people staring at me. I’ve had to stop everything and search for you all over creation, and meanwhile the peaches have gone to hell.” “I called because I was wondering something “ Where are you? Answer me.” “I was wondering, do you know what my favorite color is?” “I know one thing and that’s I’m gonna find you Lily and when I do, I’m gonna tear your behind to pieces-“
Why is this an important event?	The story of Mary is told and it’s a significant part of the book because Mary is a symbol. The gathering is to remind everyone, even Lily and Rosaleen how important religion is, and to not loose sight of that.	This event is important because it emphasizes the importance of having spirituality in ones life.	I think this event is important because it shows how much Lily longs for love, a love that she thinks she deserves from her father. In the lawyers office she sees a picture of a father and daughter and thinks that maybe if she calls her father that he will miss her and finally give her love. He doesn’t.  She realizes that he’s the same sad, angry man that he has always been.

Prediction:  

I feel that somehow T-Ray will find Lily and Rosaleen and file charges against the Boatwright’s and try to have them arrested I don’t know what exactly for, maybe because they’re African American. I also think that Lily will continue to become a stronger and knowledgeable and continue to look at things through a positive light.

Critique.

Throughout the story Lily changes and grows inside and out, her knowledge, her perspective on life and a new perspective on love. The Boatwright’s are teaching not only Lily, but Rosaleen that there is a whole new world out there.

WORD	PART OF SPEECH	DEFINITION	EXAMPLE FOUND IN THE BOOK	PAGE
Hi-Fi	Noun.	An electronic device that plays phonographic records, reproducing the original sound with a high degree of fidelity.	“I hope it’s not too backward to say that I felt like I had never heard anything on my hi-fi back home that came out that good.”	148
Aptitude	Noun.	An inherent ability, as for learning.	“I told her the way they created hexagons, they must be the ones who could do math in their heads, and she smiled and said, yes, nest builders had true math aptitude.”	148
Myrtle	Noun.	Any of several evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Myrtus, especially M. communis, an aromatic shrub native to the Mediterranean region and western Asia, having pink or white flower and blue-black berries and widely cultivated as a hedge plant.	I had come barefoot, collecting dew on the soles of my feet. Sitting on the toilet, trying to pee very quietly, I could see crepe myrtle petals stuck to my toes.	163
Ingenious	Adjective.	Marked by inventive skill and imagination.	“I thought about explaining to her my mother’s ingenious method of riding the house of roaches- cracker crumbs and marshmallow- but then I thought, This is June, forget it.”	104
Camphorweed	Noun.	Either of two eastern North American herbs, of the composite family, having numerous small flower heads.	“I moved through camphorweed and wild azalea, stepping over fire-ant mounds and swinging the smoker while he lifted the lids off the hives and peered inside looking for capped frames.”	126
Extractor	Verb.	A person or thing that extracts.	“We ran twelve extractor loads through the whole system-all the way from the uncapping knife to the bottling tank.”	133
Tiered	Noun.	One series of rows placed one above another.	“I pictured myself eating three- tiered chocolate cake for breakfast throughout the entire month, staying up an hour after bedtime writing high-caliber stories and poems.”	137
Caliber	Noun.	The diameter of the inside of a round cylinder, such as a tube.	“I pictured myself eating three- tiered chocolate cake for breakfast throughout the entire month, staying up an hour after bedtime writing high-caliber stories and poems.”
Elderberries	Noun.	The small, edible, purplish- black fruit of the common American elder, sometimes used to make wine or preserves.	“We were working on the jars of tupelo tree honey, which Zach and I thought gathered out there on Clayton Forrest’s land, plus a few jars of purple honey from the hive where the bees had struck it rich on elderberries.”	140
Affliction	Noun.	A condition of pain, suffering, or distress.	“We had a citywide emergency on our hands, as there is no greater affliction for the southern mind than people up north coming down o fix our way of life.”	155

Romans 8:39

Hosea 6:3.

Newspaper Reading...Two.

http://news.yahoo.com/4-more-sentenced-sexual-assault-texas-girl-224732954.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/us/four-sentenced-in-gang-rape-of-11-year-old-texas-girl.html?_r=0

Newspaper Reading: Preparation for Group Discussion

Student: Aubree Mendez

WORD	PART OF SPEECH (Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, etc.)	SYNONYM OR DEFINITION
1. Co-Defendants	Noun.	A defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action.
2. Prosecutors	Noun.	A lawyer who conducts the case against a defendant in a criminal court. Also called prosecuting attorney.
3. Aggravated sexual assault	Unknown.	When one commits an aggravated assault of a sexual nature and who’s wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant.

3) To help with the context for the words you selected, highlight or underline the sentences that contain the three words you gathered.

 All had pleaded guilty earlier this month to aggravated sexual assault of a child, and each must register as a sex offender once released from prison.

“Unless one of the remaining co-defendants has something brand new, we are not going to see any more trials from this point forward,” said Grant Scheiner, a Huston criminal defense attorney not involved in the case.

Defense attorneys and prosecutors also declined to comment, citing a gag order in the case.

4) In one sentence, explain what the article is about. You can use the following sentence starters to help you: “This article is about…” “The main idea in this article is…”

This article is about four men who pleaded guilty in the repeated sexual assault of an eleven-year-old Texas girl were each sentenced Friday to fifteen years in prison. 

Book Report Materials...Two.

Book Title: The Secret Life of Bees.

Author: Sue Monk Kidd.

Questions	Event 1	Event 2	Event 3
What happened?	Lily and Rosaleen meet the Boatwright’s.	August offers Lily and Rosaleen to stay with her.	Mays Story.
When did it happen and where?	-August Boatwright’s house.	-The Boatwright’s House.	-The Boatwright’s House.
Who was involved? What did they say? What did they do?	-Lily, Rosaleen, August, May and June Boatwright was involved. -Lily and Rosaleen waited until August went inside then crossed the highway and opened the gate in the picket fence. “She’s the woman who makes the Black Madonna Honey.” -Lily states that she was unable to take her eyes off of her, “The Mistress of bees, the portal into my mothers life.” -As they stood on the porch, they could hear June bugs flicker around and music notes from inside that sounded like a violin. -Lily knocked on the door. While Rosaleen muttered, “ Give me strength… Baby Jesus… Lord our feeble minds. -The music that they were hearing from inside the house had stopped, and the door opened. -The woman who answered the door was wearing red; her hair cut short and a curlicue swim cap pulled tight over her scalp. -Lily asked if she was August Boatwright and the woman said no, she was June Boatwright. She said August is her sister and asked if they came to see her. Lily nodded as another woman appeared. -The other woman that appeared had bare feet. She wore a green and white sleeveless gingham dress and short braids that stuck straight out all over her head. Her name was May Boatwright. Lily mentioned that May Boatwright wasn’t an “all together normal person.” As May asked if August is expecting them, Rosaleen jumped in and said, “No, see Lily ha this picture-“, Lily interrupted her and said “I saw a honey jar back at the store, and the man said...” As Lily cut off Rosaleen, Lily was cut off by May. May said, “Oh, you’ve come for honey. Well why didn’t you say so? Come on in the front parlor. I’ll get August.” -Lily mentions that she and Rosaleen need to get their stories straight. -As Lily stepped into the house, she felt a trembling along her skin. “The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn’t.”	-Lily, August, June, Rosaleen. -August entered the room that Lily and Rosaleen were in and said, “ Who’ve we got here?” -Lily tells August that they have left home to find Lily’s aunt. -Lily asks August if she has any work for them, considering that they aren’t in any hurry to get to Virginia. -“Rosaleen was our housekeeper, she doesn’t have any family but me, so we decided to go up to Virginia to find my aunt. Except we don’t have any money, so if you have any work for us to do while were here, maybe we could earn a little before heading on. We aren’t really in a hurry to get to Virginia.” August replies, “I’m from Virginia myself.” -August tells Rosaleen tat she can help May in the house, and Lily can help her and Zach with the bees. -Zach is Augusts’ main helper. -August can’t pay Lily. But Lily and Rosaleen will have food to eat and a room to sleep in. -“I don’t exactly know her whole name, my father just called her Aunt Bernie; I never met her.” “Well, what were you planning to do, child, go door to door in Virginia?” “No, ma’am, just Richmond.” “I see.” August replied. -Lily says that the thing was, she did. She saw right through it.	- Lily, August and May. -August tells Lily about what happened to May, and why she is the way she is. -August tells Lily that the wall was created by May. She tells Lily that May is special. “May takes in things differently than the rest of us do. See, Lily when you and I hear about some misery out there, it might make us feel bad for a while, but it doesn’t wreck our whole world. Its like we have a built- in protection around our hearts that keeps the pain from overwhelming us. But May- she doesn’t have that. Everything just comes into her- all the suffering out there- and she feels as if it’s happening to her. She cant tell the difference” -Lily starts thinking… “Did this mean if I told May about T-Ray’s mounds of grits, his dozens of small cruelties, about my killing of mother- that hearing it, she would feel everything I did? I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone’s joy seemed to double it?” -When April and May were eleven they walked to the market to buy ice cream, the man at the market told them that they had to eat the ice cream outside. April wanted to stay inside to look sat books, but the man took her arm and pulled her to the door, and her ice cream dropped to the ground. -The Boatwright’s father told April that nothing is fair in this world. -“She got deflated about life, I suppose you say. It opened her eyes to things she might not have noticed, being so young. She started having stretches when she didn’t want to go to school or do anything. By the time she was thirteen, she was having terrible depressions, and of course the whole time, whatever she was feeling, May was feeling. And hen when Aril was fifteen, she took our fathers shotgun and killed herself.” -When April died, something in May died, too. -May was never normal after April’s death. -The Boatwright’s tried for years to get help for May, but no doctors had any idea what to do with her except put her away. -June and August came up with the wailing wall. (A place for May to mourn). -May continues to write her prayers and place them in the wall.
Why is this an important event?	This is where Lily and Rosaleen meet the Boatwright’s; I think it is a significant part of the story because I feel like since they met the Boatwright’s that something is going to happen. Maybe they do know Lily’s mother, maybe they do have a connection to lily somehow. It gives you a sense that they are there and met each other for a reason.	Lily and Rosaleen are stuck. Lily has already lied to August multiple times and Rosaleen has not said a word. What will this lead to? They have finally escaped T-Ray and now they’ve just gotten themselves in a mess of lies. I feel that their lies will surely catch on, which will lead to many future events throughout the book.	This section of the story really makes you connect with May and how she’s feeling. It helps you understand that she was normal, and the news of her sister’s death was really hard for her to deal with emotionally and mentally.

 

I think that Lily will finally open up to August and tell her the truth about why she’s really there. And possibly ask August if she knows anything about her mother.  

“I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called “bee yard etiquette.” She reminded me that the world was one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don’t be afraid, as no life- loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don’t be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don’t swat. Don’t even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee’s temper. Act like you know what you’re doing, even if you don’t. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.” Page 92.

It indicates that one should not be afraid of life and things in life that can harm you. But don’t be gullible, keep your guard up and be aware of your surroundings. If you’re angry, don’t act upon that anger with negativity. And above all love.

WORD	PART OF SPEECH	DEFINITION	EXAMPLE FOUND IN THE BOOK	PAGE
Consternation	Noun	Feelings of anxiety or dismal at something unexpected.	“He thought the tone of shock in my voice was really consternation.”	64
Venetian	Adjective	Of or relating to Venice or its people.	“In the corner of my eye I caught a slight movement at the window, a venetian blind slit open, then closed.”	68
Organdy	Noun	A fine translucent cotton or silk fabric that is usually stiffened and is used for women’s clothing.	“The curtains were organdy, not your average white organdy but silver-gray, so the air came through with a slightly smoky shimmer.”	70
Iridescent	Adjective	Showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles.	“A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air.”	57
Slew	Verb	Turn or slide violently or uncontrollably in a particular direction.	“I knocked on the door while she uttered a slew of words under her breath.”	68
Afghans	Noun	A blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl.	“Somebody had gone over the entire parlor with it, a big room with fringed throw rugs, an old piano with a lace runner, and cane –bottom rocker draped with afghans.”	79
Parceled	Verb	Divide into portions and then distribute.	“She kept forty eight hives strewn through the woods around the pink house and another two hundred eighty were parceled out on various farms, in river yards and upland swamps.”	93
Strewn	Verb	Scatter or spread untidily over a surface or area.	“She kept forty eight hives strewn through the woods around the pink house and another two hundred eighty were parceled out on various farms, in river yards and upland swamps.”	93
Serenading	Verb	Entertain with a serenade.	“June’s music poured out, serenading us.”	97
Cranny	Noun	A narrow space opening.	“I pressed the paper with her name into a cranny that seemed right for her, giving her to the wailing wall.”	101