Preview, Predict, and CODE

Our class read the Secret Life of Bees. At the beginning we were instructed to jot down our ideas on what the book would end up being about.

All my predictions were actually accurate. Yes this is mostly due to the fact that my predictions were shallow in terms of specifics. For example,"I think at first I will be bored. But then I will begin to get hooked," which is how all my books end up.

Some of the more accurate predictions would have to be how the book would be about discovering a new world. I was right. In the book the main character Lily, discovers a new life of beekeeping with the Boatwright sisters. She is also introduced to a new religion. She may not have exactly discovered "A new world," but she managed to discover a whole new life.

In one of my predictions I said that it would be both challenging and easy because I noticed several words I was new to. But as I read the book I realized that it was actually quite simple. The occasional unknown word would appear every 20-30 pages.