Planning Your Essay Graphic Organizer Prompt: Analyze how the meaning of the novel’s title, Inside Out & Back Again, relates to the universal refugee experience of fleeing and finding home and how this experience is revealed in Ha’s story.
Introductory Paragraph
Part 1: What is the essay about? What point will you, the author, be making? What evidence will you be using? Why?

Part 2: Who is Ha before she flees her home? Why do we need to know this to understand how she turns “inside out and back again”?

Body Paragraph 1
How do the lives of refugees turn “inside out” when they are forced to flee and find home? What claims are you making? What evidence are you using?

Body Paragraph 2
How do the lives of refugees turn “back again” when they find home? What claims are you making? What evidence are you using?

Concluding Paragraph
What was your essay about? What are the main points you made? What is your final thought that you want to leave the reader with? Why?