“Querencia – A place where one feels at home.” When I was looking online for the piece by Georgia Heard, I discovered many sites about “querencia” and this same lesson. The idea for me came from Cindy O’Donnell-Allen’s writer’s notebook unit during training at an AP Summer Institute in 1997. The Lesson As part of my Writer’s Notebook lesson when I was teaching, I would read the following article with my students: “Querencia” by Georgia Heard A few summers ago I experienced my first–and last–bullfight, in a small French town near the Spanish border, where Picasso once lived. When the gate to the ring opened,…