This critical thinking activity for Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert uses hexagons and hexagonal thinking to encourage students to draw new connections between characters, elements of plot, and elements of Flaubert's writing within the novel.Students will work with hexagons printed with information from the novel, information from the historical and social context surrounding the novel, and several other categories and draw conclusions about how those tidbits of information fit together. They'