Evaluating

1. I love this book. I would like to read this on my own free time. All the characters match the personalities. I love books that have an exciting begining in the first chapter. That's what gets me going on reading books. I also like how it is about a little girl and her adventurous life and what she does day by day.

2. There isn't really much to say bad about this book. It's going great with the characters and how they carry themselves.

What Happened Over the Sunny Weekend?

What happened? Friday I bumped into a friend at a store close to my house, and we swapped numbers. Then later we both went to the Courthouse and worked out with each other. I need to stay in shape for this summer to fit in a swim suit and shorts. Saturday I woke up at ten thirty, and then my dad came home with my new dog Bella. He said "Time to get ready and help me and the family with the pool over at your grandparents house". Damn, I didn't want to go because I just woke up, but he said if I didn't go and help I don't get to swim in it this summer. So we went over to my grandparent's house and helped with the pool to put it all back together. We had a Bar-B-Q, actually my first Bar-B-Q for the first time this summer. Putting the pool together was a bonding experience with my big family and how we put the liner in. On Sunday I just sat around the house ate food while watching a couple of movies that I haven't seen. Then I went on a long jog and pushed myself up Madrona hill (It was a killer hill). Monday when I woke up, me and my family went to my grandparents house and swam in the new pool. The pool at my grandparents house has been at their place for twenty years. It was fun. I got burnt over the weekend. That is what I was hoping for so my sunburn can turn into a tan and it did.

Opinion about the book so far...

I think that the book gives more details than the movie. I own the secret life of bees and have seen it. Since we've been reading the book I thought about the movie and the book. I think books always give more detail. The movie is always in my head. The movie is shoter than a book. It always leaves out parts and the book doesn't. I like how you picked out this book, it's really interesting.

Setting from Secret Life of Bees

Lily and T. Ray had a peach farm. At the entrance to the farm they had a big wooden sign with OWENS PEACH ENTERPRISES in the worst orange color you've ever seen. The sign was nothing compared with the giant peach perched atop a sixty-foot pole beside the gate. It's fleshy color, not to mention the crease down the middle, that gave it the unmistakable appearance one of a rear end. Lily and T. Ray lived in Sylvan on the worst side of town. Old houses set up on cinder blocks. Fans wedges in the windows. Dirt yards. Women in pink curlers. Collarless dogs.


In her description of talking about the peach farm. She didn't like her farm that T.Ray was raising, Lily absolutely hated it. She got made fun from the students at school whenever they drove by the farm. Lily didn't really describe how it smelt just the way it looked. If you read about what she describes the farm as and you imagine what it would smell like, I'm pretty sure it would smell like manure and peaches ALOT.

Decribing Portland City

Last weekend I went to Portland where some of my family members lived. I had a blast so I want to live there when I move out. It's BEAUTIFUL, a lot of people around downtown, and gorgeous homes that are for one million dollars. When you walk outside and smell Portland's air it smells like nature, food, and flowers. I am a city girl; I couldn't live in the country. Why do I want to live in Portland? It's because it has a lot of people, a lot of action going on in the city, and more shopping places. It's just a bigger city to have fun in.

Whats happening this weekend?

Today I am going to go over to my boyfriends house right after school. I'm hanging out with him because on Saturday he is going to New York and Mexico to see his family. He has family all over the United States. Friday night me, my brother, my sister, and one of my cousins are all going to go to Portland to see my two cousins, my uncle, and my aunt. We always have fun up in Portland. My aunt is going to take me and my younger sister shopping (I don't know what store). At my uncle's and aunt's house we usually play with my cousins, do art and crafts, play video games, and the worst thing eat junk food (which I can work out, to work it off). My parents are really happy because they get the house to themselves and it is peace and quiet. They always like a couple days to themselves. This weekend is going to be a blast.

What Lily could have done when Rosaleen was put in jail?

Lily is white and Rosaleen is black. Segeration was still happening at that time and whites couldn't be in the same building with blacks. Lily could of sent her a letter to the hospital, because she couldn't visit Rosaleen.

Lily could of talked to a black person that Rosaleen and Lily knew and she could have visited Rosaleen and told what Lily needed her to tell Rosaleen.

Character:A Friend Named Armondo

My best friend is charming, handsome, and sweet. He's always laid back and chill to talk to. He has helped me through my life and trying to find myself as a woman. I met Armondo last summer on June 1st at a friends house. I knew what he looked liked but never got to know the real side of him. The first thing he said to me was "I like your hair like that, all curly and cute." Armondo has always given me compliments since we met up with each other. "You're beautiful and I need you to know that Mackenzie." I always smiled and said thank you because I didn't know what else to say. He went to South Salem High School with me when I was a freshman, and he was a senior. He has told me that he has kept his eye on me since day one, but I don't believe that. This June will be two years since we've known each other. Everyting is great. We've been together as boyfriend and girlfriend happy as could be. He is a goof ball, but I love him for who he is. I always go see him whenever I can (that's everyday practically). I would never have thought we would be together as a happy couple because I don't look like the girl that would date a sweet, fun, and goofy guy.

-Five things they do or say

• Goes to school
• Plays basketball
• Plays with his two dogs
• "Whats good..."

-Five words that describe them

• He explains himself well, when I ask him questions
• Fun
• Lazy
• Goof ball
• Freak

Google: Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights was when whites controlled blacks and called them bad names. They used to beat them because they were a different race than white. The fight of civil rights happened between 1955-1968. The civil rights movement has also been called the Black freedom movement, the Negro revolution, and the second Reconstruction. Martin Luther King marched, protested, demonstrated, and spoke out against segregation. Within a couple of years, African-American had destroyed the barriers that existed between whites and blacks. In August of 1963, the world watched blacks and whites come together and grant Kings dream of racial equality.

Google South Carolina

• The swamps of South Carolina are good for growing rice. South Carolina is known as the Rice State and the Swamp State.
• SC is hmid in the summer time average temperatures 86-103. The highest temperature that the state has had was 111 degress.

Short Imaginative Story

It was the middle of the night and suddenly I remembered I forgot to bring the dog in from outside. I had to put on my robe and run through the house hurrying and trying to find my slippers. When I ran outside I couldn't find my dog. It was really chilly outside. I was outside for ten minutes trying to find her. I finally found her rolling in a dirt puddle. I said "Megan what are you doing?" I grabbed her and got myself all dirty. Then I went inside, gave her a bath because if I didn't give her a bath she would make the house stink and get the couch all dirty. My parents wouldn't be happy because it would've been my fault.