Teacher Resources
The Kite Runner Resources
Students Respond to The Kite Runner
About Reading Across RI
Reading Across Rhode Island: One
Book, One State, Many Successful Readers
by Anne Arvidson & Pamela Blanco from the English Journal, May 2004
Last Year's Author and Book resources
Sue Monk Kidd.com
Review of The Secret Life
of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd: A Biographical Sketch
Reading
Group Guide: The Secret Life of Bees ~Disucssion questions, author interview
Mobile, Alabama chose Secret Life of Bees
for its 2003 Book
More
Discussion Questions
Lesson Plans and materials
LARK KIT Theme 1: The Secret Life of Bees
~ Family Literacy PACT Lesson using the book
LARK KIT Theme 2: Civil Rights and African-American
Identity
A summary of the book in English
A summary of the book in French
A summary of the book in Spanish
'Using "The Secret Life of Bees" in a Family Literacy
Program' Handout List for Literacy Workshop Jan 17, 2003 CCRI
Booklists
If you want to read more fiction like
The Secret Life of Bees check out these titles...
A List of Nonfiction Titles about Bees,
Beekeeping and Honey available at the Providence Public Library
Children's Books, Songs, Poems about Bees
Civil Rights Movement from the Providence Public Library
Civil
Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and other Biographies from the Providence
Public Library
Black History and Civil Rights: books,
cds, and videos
Black History/Civil Rights Links
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/brainpop/movie?id=civilrights
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc3/yahooligans/civil_rights
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/
http://www.blackgospel.com
Bee Web Resources
RI Beekeepers Association
NOVA:
Tales from the Hive In this NOVA program, our cinematographer literally
filmed inside a hive and followed bees in flight to capture closeups of
honeybee behavior.
Beehive Products Everything for the
Bee lover
Bee Culture: The
Magazine of American Beekeeping
On
Food: How sweet it is: The secret life of honey from the Seattle Post
suebeehoney.com Includes “Bee
a Kid”, a section dedicated to kids of all ages where one can play
games or find a recipe.
B-EYE The Australian
National University’s Centre for Visual Science lets you see the world
through the eyes of a honey bee.
Golden Blosson Honey Pictures
of bees and beehives and a collection of amazing honey facts.
honey.com Includes bee facts, honey games,
history and trivia and a section for teachers.
Africanized Honey Bees
on the Move Lesson Plans Lesson plans for grades K to 12 designed to
familiarize students with honey bees and bee safety issues through a variety
of interesting activities.
Insecta Inspecta World:
Honey Bees Good graphics with facts, trivia and activities about insects.
The Bumblebee Pages
Site dedicated to promoting more knowledge about bumblebees, including ways
to help them.
Electronic Resources available for teachers, students,
and discussion leaders
NoveList
- Access from home, with your CLAN Library card, issued from the Providence
Public Library and some other RI public libraries who subscribe to this
service. Enter the 14 digit barcode number (no spaces or hyphens).
InfoTrac OneFile
- Access from home, with your CLAN Library card, issued from your RI public
library, enter the 14 digit barcode number (no spaces or hyphens).
Program Ideas and Resources
Fantasy Works Youth Theater Inc. – ReActor-Stories
on Stage
Contact: Andrea DeCataldo, Director
of Education, 401-826-4807
Teen theater group who will perform children’s
stories for young audiences dealing with themes explored in The
Secret Life of Bees
Available for 10:30AM or 2PM performances only during school vacation week,
April 12 through 16
Performances are FREE
Beekeeper
Contact: Jim Lawson – Apiary Inspector,
Senior Plant Pathologist, Division of Agriculture & Resource Marketing,
RI – DEM; 401-222-2781 x4519
Jim will present an interesting overview of beekeeping in Rhode Island and
its importance to agriculture. He will bring an observation hive, an extractor,
and honeycomb. Talks are suitable for all ages.
Workshops are FREE
Black White Relationships – As Whites
Might Like Them
Contact: Jay
Reuker, History Teacher, Ponagansett High School
This provocative workshop, presented first at the RARI Literacy Conference,
investigates how The Secret Life of Bees helps to perpetuate a vision of
the “magic negro” in the media, such as Driving Miss Daisy,
Song of the South, and Freaky Friday. Mr. Reuker’s basic idea is that
the viewer/reader should identify the “magic negro” and its
problems without throwing out the message of healing and redemption.
Small honorarium requested.
Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS)
Contact: Valerie Tutson, 401-273-4013
RIBS provides workshops in storytelling, writing and related arts for children
and adults.
Fee negotiable.
EnRICHment Opportunities
Contact: Risa Gilpin,
401-273-2250
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities’ speakers bureau brings
humanities presentations to public audiences throughout RI. Many of their
offerings, including “Philosophical Thoughts on Modern Friendship”,
“Remembering and Forgetting: Portraits of Two African American Centenarians”
and “The Stone Walls of South County” would fit into themes
found in The Secret Lives of Bees.
Fee $75. for non-profit organizations
Nominate a book for Reading Across RI 2006