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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Journal 2 I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ and I am on page 42. This is a book about a girl named Scout and her brother‚ Jem‚ who are both scared of Boo Radley and his family because of the rumors they have heard about the family and they also has not seen him. School is also starting in Maycomb‚ Alabama for Scout and Jem. Scout got in trouble with her new teacher already. In this journal‚ I will be predicting and characterizing. G- I predict the kids will not meet Boo Y- He
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Spikes | 1 Spikes | 2 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood Dialectical Journal Date Text 7/21/14 p. 5 “Out of the gravel there are peonies growing. They come up through the loose grey pebbles‚ their buds testing the air like snails’ eyes‚ then swelling and opening‚ huge dark-red flowers all shining and glossy like satin. Then they burst and fall to the ground.” 7/21/1 4 p. 5 “It’s 1851. I’ll be twenty-four years old next birthday. I’ve been shut up in here since the age of sixteen. I am a
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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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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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9)‚ at least one of the three columns (Device – Passage – Connection to Meaning) is completed for you. Your job is to correctly and meaningfully complete any blank column. Passages should be directly cited and effectively chosen (Include page number[s]). * Each “Connection to Meaning” entry will require multiple‚ thoughtful sentences. * Each “Connection to Meaning” entry must include: (a) discussion of meaning in the immediate context of the device‚ and (b) discussion of meaning in the
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Faulkner uses the same technique in his short story ”A Rose for Emily” when he creates the image of the protagonist by using what the people gathered at her funerals think about her. In both texts we can talk about multiperspectivism and about Faulkner`s ingeniosity in creating different types of characters. Vardaman needed to escape the chain of unfortunate events and situations requiring a high level of maturity‚ so he found a way to regain his childish balance by following buzzards after sundown in
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Passages from text | Page #’s | Comments & Questions | “The bunk house was a long‚ rectangular building. Inside‚ the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small‚ square windows‚ and in the fourth‚ a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks‚ five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal
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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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that gives a dead man leave to think— and breathed such life with kisses in my lips that I revived and was an emperor. Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed when but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!” Act‚ Scene‚ Line # Act 5‚ Scene 1‚ Line(s) 1-11 Response In this play Romeo has a few dreams and oddly they all come true. But‚ Romeo doesn’t realize that he should maybe have listened to them. If he had listened to them he could have saved his own life. Earlier in the play Romeo says that
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