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The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

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Author Biographies

 

http://www.kingsolver.com/about/about.asp

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_barbara_kingsolver.html

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/K/Kingslvr.asp

http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-kingsolver-barbara.asp

 

   
Background Information

 

Author Website: http://www.kingsolver.com/home/index.asp

Cherokee Nation: http://www.cherokee.org/

Adoption: http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/

Social Justice: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Social_justice

Guatemala: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Guatemala

 

   
Lesson Plans and Activities

 

Vocabulary: http://www.vocabulary.com/VUctbeantrees.html

Key Facts: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/facts.html

Plot Summary: http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/bean/fullsumm.html

Theme: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/themes.html 

Characters:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/bean/charlist.html

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/canalysis.html

Quotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/quotes.html

Questions:

     http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lrm22/uc101/bean_trees.htm

     http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060175796

     http://www.msjhs.org/staff/brunak/beanquest.html

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/study.html

     http://www.ket.org/bookclub/books/2001_may/questions.htm

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmBeanTrees38.asp

     http://iabrams.home.mindspring.com/english2/Bean_Trees_Study_Guide_e2.htm

Quizzes:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/cgisys/cgiwrap/readers/quiz.cgi?book

          =bean&q_start=1&total_q=40

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/quiz.html

Teaching Guides:

     http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/2147.html

Literary Analysis: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mcraig/kingsolver.html