Assignment: Reading Journal‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ Acts 1 and 2 (35 points) Instructions: Respond to each of the questions below in complete sentences. Keep in mind that your instructor will be evaluating both the quality of the content in your responses and the quality of the writing that communicates your ideas. Be mindful of the basic principles of spelling‚ grammar‚ and punctuation. Elements of Dramatic Text Select a text excerpt from act 1 or 2 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet that
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Kavel Rao Yuen Freshman English 3/12/17 Week 1 Reading Journal 1. (A) Straight from the outset‚ after announcing Lydia’s death‚ Ng writes‚ "No one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast" (Ng 1). (B) Lydia is dead‚ and the only clue is her banal absence from the breakfast table. Ng’s first description of Lydia‚ whose death the plot revolves around‚ portrays her as just a regular high schooler‚ just going through the motions of life. 2. (A) When Lydia’s mother first starts
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Comp II Reading Journal Student’s Name___________ ___________Date_______________ Story___ ______________ “The Red Convertible” ____________ Author_____Louise__Erdich______________________________________ Date Written_________1984___________________________________________________ Point of View__First-person___________________________________________________ Protagonist______Lyman Lamartine_ _____________________________________ Antagonist Henry (Lyman’s
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Reading Journal on the Excerpt from Karen Armstrong’s Autobiography. The author is very expressive of her feelings‚ and I believe it is these feelings that she wants to let out to the world in her autobiography‚ there is not one point but an entire phase in life that she expresses in her writing. The feelings and mind-set of one lost‚ looking for an identity to fit into; can be a point she is trying to convey but then again‚ there is a lot of flow in her words that makes this point
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connection of our embodied self and everyone around us. However‚ we do not always need a material book in front of us to travel deeper into ourselves; sometimes we need only to travel into our minds to create our own story. In “The Risk of Reading”‚ written by Robert Waxler states “The gap that opens up between our “real life” and our stories –between the contingent events of our everyday lives and the narratives that shape those chaotic events –rouses us‚ excites desire‚ invites us to further recreate
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To Kill A Mockingbird Summer Reading Journal 1. The books title: To Kill A Mockingbird Authors name: Harper Lee Copyright date: 1960‚ Renewed in 1988 Number of pages: 323 2. Summary Of The Plot: The story is from the point of view of Scout Finch‚ a little girl growing up in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ after the Great Depression. The story follows her life as she lives through many social issues‚ including racism in the deep South. This issue is shown when her dad who is an attorney has to defend
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Summer Reading Journal “Lord of the Flies.” by William Golding Chapter 1 Summary- The boys find themselves on an island and introduce their selves to each other. The two boys talk about the crash and the possibility of there being no adults‚ and wondering if there are any other boys that were on the plane with them. They find a conch shell after swimming in the beach water and Piggy tells a story about a man and how he blew on the shell to make a noise. Therefore‚ the boys decide to try
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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas By Kate M BEFORE READING 1. Examine the title of your novel. Why do you think the author might have chosen this title? What might the title suggest the genre‚ theme‚ characters and settings off this novel? The title of this novel makes me think that a boy in stripped pyjamas isn’t something that is usually seen and other people wonder why the boy wears the stripped pyjamas. I think this book will be about friendship and isolation. I think the main characters
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Examining Character: 1) Choose one complex character from the novel. Using quotations from the text as supporting evidence‚ examine and explain the devices used by the author to create this complex character. Then‚ describe how this character has contributed to the development of the plot in Chapters 7-11. Scout is a complex character in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. From the beginning of the story‚ Scout goes against the stereotype of the “prissy little girl that plays with her dolls.” She
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English Learning Reflective Journal – Reading Newspaper There are many ways to improve my English‚ for instance‚ watching English Channels or movies and reading more English books. But I think this is not enough. Therefore‚ I choose to learn more daily news instead of just watching a movie or reading a book. There is only one way to learn English and to know more about our society and global economy at the same time. I think learning English is so hard. There is no doubt for saying that
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