1. “St. Lucy’s Home for girls raised by wolves”
Standards and Vocabulary

2. Standards
910.RL.1.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
910.RL.2.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone

3. Quick Write
Identify two specific word choices in the title and epigraph and explain how these words evoke a sense of place

4. Vocabulary
Figurative language – language that expresses an idea in an interesting way by using words that usually describes something else
Connotative meaning – a suggested or associated meaning in addition to a word’s primary meaning
Cumulative – including or adding together all of the things that came before
Evokes – brings (a memory, feeling, image, etc…) into the mind

5. Tone – an author’s attitude toward his or her subject
vocabulary
Tone – an author’s attitude toward his or her subject
Epigraph – The beginning of a text or a section of text suggesting the text’s theme or central idea

6. Vocabulary
Jesuit – of or pertaining to Jesuits, a male Roman Catholic religious order
Lycanthropic – of or pertaining to the delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf
Stage – a single step or degree in a process
Initial – first
Period – any specified division or portion of time