Step One: Read the essay and annotate it, using the guide to explicating literature posted in this learning unit.
Next, figure out the message of your chosen essay and formulate a thesis statement or argument that sums up its main point.
Then, write out quotes you like from the essay to include. To continue the process of pre-writing. write introductory and explanatory sentences about these quotes
Use these quotes, sentences explaining them, them, and your thesis (which should be the last sentence of your first paragraph) to start writing a three pages with quotes on the meaning of one essay and how it relates to humanity. All your paragraphs should work toward explicating what happens in either the essay “The Word Made Flesh” or “No Place Like Home.”
Be sure to support all your points with examples (words or brief quotations) from the text. To do so, quote exactly, and work all quotations into your own sentences. See MLA style guides for integrating quotations.
The last page (third or fourth)of your essay should be a Works Cited with three references.
Step Two: Choose one set of question prompts and use them to begin writing a well- formulated three page essay. These essay prompts are for you to use as needed. As you write, reflect upon what you have learned so far from pre-writing and either one or both of these essays.
If you are writing about “No Place Like Home” answer the following questions:
What is the meaning of the title? Why does the author allude to the Wizard of Oz in the title?
How does the author say the immigrant feels about “home”?
How does their travel change or wound them?
What is the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant? What is the effect of being both?
What is the meaning of the Portuguese word “Saudade” and why does the author associate it with the holidays?
How does the writer and/or ordinary person use memory and literature to make a home?
