Summer Reading Assignment English Language AP Dialectical Journals Passage/Quotes from Text Page #/¶ Response 1. "The priest was blessed with a long‚ incriminating finger‚ which he used to point out sinners in public‚ and tongue schooled in arousing emotions." Pg 2 /¶2 (C) As I continued reading on how the priest was to spot the sins his fellow community has committed‚ it kind of surprised me. My priest could probably tell the people who sin from the guilt that appears in their face but the
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The Great Gatsby Reading Journal Chapters 1‚2 and 3. Nick Carraway 1. What new information did you discover about the character? What is the emotional state of that character in these chapters? Nick Carraway‚ the narrator‚ is a young man who rents a humble property in West Egg‚ Long Island‚ New York‚ right next to the mysterious Jay Gatsby’s mansion. He He came to New York in 1922 to settle for a life in the bonds business – a type of debt security similar to the work of a loan sharks’
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Dialectical journal: Scarlet letter 1."But on one side of the portal… was a wild rose-bush… which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in…” (Chapter 1‚ pg.41) The rose bush in this excerpt at the beginning of the book signifies the one thing that seems to bloom despite the harsh rules and restrictions that the Puritan society bestow upon all who reside there. Much like the rose bush‚ Hester Prynne
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Tamara Haddad Wilhite P.5 Scarlet Letter Dialectical Journal “Like anything that pertains to crime‚ it seemed never to have a youthful era… a wild rose-bush‚ in this month of June‚ with delicate gems‚ which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in” (Hawthorne 45). Hawthorne describes the door of the jail‚ as well as the rose bush to the side of it. I feel as if this is supposed to represent what Hester is about the experience: the harsh
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Humanities English II -4 21 February 2011 Dialectical Journals: The Merchant of Venice Source | Quotation | Analysis | Act 1. Sc.1 Pg.17Ln. 147-151‚ 153-159 | “In my school-days‚ when I had lost one shaft‚ I shot his fellow of the self-same flight. The self-same way with more advised watch‚ to find the other forth‚ and by adventuring both‚ I oft found both.” “I owe you much‚ and‚ like a willful youth‚ that which I owe is lost; but if you please to shoot another arrow that self-way which you
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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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Gatsby was great. Not so because of all his wealth‚ but because of his persistence in fighting for his American Dream‚ which witnessed his pure love towards Daisy. Gatsby can be viewed as a tragic figure in the story. When he is first introduced‚ he seems to be surrounded by people and wealth. However‚ as the story progresses‚ we identify that everything in his life is fabricated. The true Gatsby‚ Jay Gatz‚ came from a humble background. When Jay Gatz fell in love with Daisy that came from a well
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Jeremy Wu Eng073 3-4-13 Great American Novel What book should be consider as the great American novel? The Great Gatsby is a book that should be consider as the great American novel because F. Scott Fitzgerald lived through the 1920’s and he pull his own life experience in the book to make it more realistic than other novels. And the novel talks about the American dream‚ which you can start from scratch and becoming rich. The writing style of this book is very creative and have a lot of
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Journal Entry 1 Chapter 1 July 14th 1-20 Characters: Narrator: He’s Afraid‚ Nervous‚ Determined‚ Dreadful‚ Reflective Finny: He is almost Cocky‚ Confident‚ Persuasive Events: Narrator visits the marble staircase Jumping from the tree Questions: Why Is the Narrator visiting the school? Why visit the marble stairs? What happened at the tree that would make the Narrator revisit it again? Quotable Quotes pg.14: plus c’est la même chose‚ plus ça change – The more things remain
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Journal #6 – 23 Skidoo We’ve recently watched the movie 23 Skidoo both in class and on our own time at home. When I first saw it in class‚ I was a bit confused and I didn’t really understand what was happening in the film. After re-watching it‚ I understood that it is a film about a post-nuclear bomb explosion. What’s different about this movie is that there is no narrative‚ or actors‚ but there is music. I find that it makes you concentrate more on what’s happening in the film because no one’s
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