The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

1. The Bean Treesby Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees is a novel about a girl growing up and struggling to make a life for herself. She deals with being alone for the first time, is responsible for the life of another person, (her daughter Turtle) and most importantly, learns about love. Taylor Greer leaves small town Pittman, Kentucky to see what the world has to offer her and encounters many adventures on the way. Turtle is a very important character in the book and she has an impact on the life of Taylor, making the things that she said about beans and bean trees important also. Being that the bean tree had never been seen before, it can represent something new, like Taylor and Turtle's life together.

2. The Bean Trees Requirements:All work must pass with a 75% or better. • Each chapter requires a set of answers to the given questions. • The answers need to be written in complete sentences (this means including the questions with in the answers). • Each chapter has vocabulary words that have three requirements. • Please read the directions on the vocabulary page. • There is a required activity to be done once the book is completed. • A Final is required to complete the book requirements. • Please note; all written materials must be: • In Microsoft Word, • Spell and grammar checked • Written in complete sentences (including spelling definitions) • Sent in electronically to your teacher. • Please save your work frequently and save a copy for yourself.

3. The Bean Trees Chapters 1-2 Chapter 1 1. How did the narrator get her job at the hospital? 2. What happened to Newt Hardbine? 3. How did the narrator choose her name? 4. Where did Taylor travel to and how did she get there? 5. How did Taylor get the baby? 6. Tell me about the baby. What was wrong with it? What sex? How old? Chapter 2 7. Who was Lou Ann married to and what was wrong with him? 8. What did Lee Sing mean by “New Year’s Pig”? 9. What were Lou Ann’s mother’s feelings about whom Lou Ann had married? 10. What happened to Angel and when?

4. Vocabulary • Write the definition of each word, follow it by writing the sentence it is used in in the book, and then create a sentence of your own using the same meaning. Chapter 1 • Page 5 prissing • Page 12 scuttle • Page 22 plaits Chapter 2 • Page 36 prosthesis • Page 39 conniption • Page 43 transients

5. Choose a project from the Project Table and turn in into your teacher. Please remember that you cannot do a project that you have previously done for another book.