Cross-Curricular Connections

The second poem compares fame to a bee. Bees have been on the Earth for a long, long time. Click on the link below to read about the world’s oldest bee. Preserved in amber, it is a hundred million years old.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6084974.stm

Emily Dickinson wrote many poems over the course of her life. Click on the link below to read another poem by Emily Dickinson, “Fame is a fickle food”. As you read, think about the aspects its shares with “Fame is a bee”.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15396