L-Letter2

** Part 2: ** While you are writing the essay, finish your letter by including the information below. Don’t forget to revise your letters.
f) Describe your writing process. How did you narrow the chosen topic? g) What kind of planning did you do? h) What steps did you go through, what changes did you make along the way, what decisions did you face, and how did you make the decisions? i) How did comments from your peers help you? j) How did any class activities help you? k) Sign the letter. l) For reflection: Does the essay really say what the letter promises?

After reading the sources we realized there were many possible reading of symbolism in this short story, so we decided to work with three views of it. We narrowed it down to "the rose itself", "the gender matter" and "the use of portraits". We have divided the work and each one of us worked mainly with an specific topic. Meanwhile we were reading and revising all the work together. Somethings we decided not to focus on, for example, the South/North conflict, otherwise it would became a too wide topic to discuss in a single essay. Revising together was also a nice part of the job, for we could help each other improve our essay. Another important thing were the comments of the teacher, for example, when she told us it would be easier to write if we had a thesis statement. That actually helped a lot to put our essay together, since we had topics that weren't so easy to relate. We believe we did good team work and our essay fulfills our expectations, and we believe it really say what it promises.

Bruna, Heidi, Melina and Talita