Sophomore Composition and Literature Communities Unit 5 Communities in Chaos Student Page Activity 3 Dialectical Journal Dialectical Journal As you read Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ you will take notes with a dialectical journal. Doing this will help you to track your progress and can be used as a resource both during the reading and once you are done. To fill out your journal‚ select quotes that you find interesting or significant. If the passage you have chosen is too long‚ paraphrase
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Book 1 - Collared or you will have no idea what is going on. Light streaked in the heavens as the pair made their way carefully over the uncertain terrain. The boy’s footing was surer than the girl’s‚ though both made good time‚ both were used to the sort of scrambling required to move quickly over the rocky hills‚ wary of unseen holes that threatened to roll an ankle. The boy was ahead of the girl‚ moving swiftly‚ threatening to leave her behind‚ if only because
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Life of Pi: Journal Response #1 The narrator of this book has his own view about zoos. He tries to make it seem as if his view is absolutely true and is scientifically proven and that he is 100% politically correct. According to him a zoo to an animal is like a home to a human. But I totally disagree with his view on the zoos. In the book the narrator’s view is totally opposite. He assumes and thinks that keeping animals in cages is normal to them and they don’t mind… He persuades us to think
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truly live up to Gatsby’s vision of her that he had obsessively contemplated for so long. The following quotations show Gatsby’s disillusionment: " he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way‚ as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real." "He had been full of the idea so long‚ dreamed it right through to the end‚ waited with his teeth set‚ so to speak‚ at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now‚ in the reaction‚ he was running down like an over wound
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Congratulations! You answered 15 out of 25 (60%) questions correctly. The average score for this quiz is 55.0% and 40757 people have taken this quiz. You can review your answers below; all the correct answers and your incorrect answers have been highlighted. 1. What‚ according to Hurston‚ is the difference between women and men? * Men are farmers and women are mules. * Women don’t wait for their dreams to come true. The possession of the dream is enough. * Women seek the horizon; men
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Cry‚ the Beloved Country Dialectical Journals Theme: Racial Inequality & Injustice Quote Response “Kumalo climbed into the carriage for non-Europeans‚ already full of the humbler people of his race…” (43) How there’s a carriage exclusively for non-Europeans is understandable at the time period that this novel is set in‚ but people who read this in the 21st century might think that this is odd how Europeans couldn’t stand to ride in the same carriage as non-Europeans. “Black and white it says‚ black
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His mom’s friends then came in silently and one of them started crying but he said‚ “I didn’t know who she was.” (10) So this is also proof that he never really talked to his mom when he put her in the home since she didn’t even know who her friends were.
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The Book Thief Dialectical Journal Assignment Due on/before ________________________ The Assignment: 1. In your notebook‚ complete a dialectical journal** (two-column notes) in which you discuss your author’s language and style. (See “Ideas for Analyzing Text.”) 2. Meet the required number (15) of concrete details in your journal notes. * See the page labeled “How to Choose Quotations…” for these requirements. *Dialectic: “The art or practice of arriving at the truth by using conversation involving
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Dialectical Journal: Their Eyes Were Watching God 1. “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon‚ never out of sight‚ never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation‚ his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now‚ women forget all those things they don’t want to remember‚ and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things
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However‚ when that trust is broken‚ so is the image of that person. Then I wonder: if they would lie about something that meant a great deal to our friendship‚ who knows what other lies they must’ve spread? I begin to question who they are‚ and if they were ever my friend in the first place. It’s as if I am seeing them in a whole new light. The worst part is‚ no matter how hard I may try‚ I just can’t bring myself to talk to that person as comfortably as I had before. Now I have to think: do they have
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