2. Aim: How might the Stage 1 epigraph affect our reading of St
Aim: How might the Stage 1 epigraph affect our reading of St. Lucy’s Home?
Do Now: Why might an author put someone else’s quote in their work?
Homework: Reread St. Lucy’s Stage 1 and answer the study guide.

3. What can we infer from the key words of the title?
The full title of this work is “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.”
What can we infer from the key words of the title?

4. What is an epigraph?
Definition: a quotation at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme.

5. What might these epigraphs imply about the work?
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. — G.K. Chesterson (from Coraline by Neil Gaiman)
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramón Jiménez (from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. — Balzac (from The Godfather by Mario Puzo)

6. St. Lucy’s Home Stage 1 epigraph:
Stage 1: The initial period is one in which everything is new, exciting, and interesting for your students. It is fun for your students to explore their new environment. - from The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock

7. Assumptions?

8. Who “wrote” the epigraph?
The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock
The Jesuits wrote it. Who might the Jesuits be? What does the word sound like?

9. Why was the book written?
To guide the nuns running these “homes” on how to deal with their “lycanthropic” students.