assessment remember. You will be allowed to use your notes from this journal on the in class, which will be given during the first week of school in your English class. Use as many Journals (page 4) as needed throughout your reading. A Word document version of this form can be found on PAPS.net for you to download and save your work electronically. Respond: To respond to Analyze: To analyze literature, Evaluate: To evaluate literature, literature, explain your feeling or explain your understanding of make a judgment about the personal connection to what you what you think about the author’s quality of the writing. Review the have read. Describe your reaction meaning of plot events, author’s creation of plot, to the events of the plot or characters, and examples of character, and use of literary characters’ actions. literary elements or devices. elements or devices. SAMPLE Dialectical Journal / Double-Entry Journal for by Elie Wiesel Night From Evidence From Text (Quotations from the book.) (Make Page Respond, Analyze & Evaluate special note of the use of Literary # Devices!) I can picture the men standing in Respond: the concentration camp, watching the snow blanket the ground. It is silent there. The snow-covered ground is smooth and soft. Analyze: Wiesel describes the snow as being and This comparison is “gentle” “warm.” not what one would expect. Standing barefoot in the snow would be very painful. snow was like a carpet, “The The cold would cut deep into one’s feet. So 83 very gentle, very warm.” why does he say it is warm? Maybe his feet are frozen, numb to the pain. Perhaps the snow provides insulation from night’s bitter cold. This comparison creates a sense of Evaluate: peace, a moment without terror and fear. It is as if he is home again, safe and warm. The writing takes the reader by surprise. PAHS Summer Reading Assignment 2014 Dialectical Journal / Double-Entry Journal Evidence From Text (Quotations from the book.) (Make Page Respond, Analyze & Evaluate special note of the use of Literary # Devices!)
remember. You will be allowed to use your notes from this journal on the assessment in class, which will be given during the first week of school in your English class. Use as many Journals (page 4) as needed throughout your reading. A Word document version of this form can be found on PAPS.net for you to download and save your work electronically. Respond: To respond to literature, explain your feeling or personal connection to what you have read. Describe your reaction to the events of the plot or characters’ actions. Analyze: To analyze literature, explain your understanding of what you think about the author’s meaning of plot events, characters, and examples of literary elements or devices. Evaluate: To evaluate literature, make a judgment about the quality of the writing. Review the author’s creation of plot, character, and use of literary elements or devices. SAMPLE Dialectical Journal / Double-Entry Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel From Evidence From Text (Quotations from the book.) (Make special note of the use of Literary Devices!) Page # Respond, Analyze & Evaluate “The snow was like a carpet, very gentle, very warm.” 83 Respond: I can picture the men standing in the concentration camp, watching the snow blanket the ground. It is silent there. The snow-covered ground is smooth and soft. Analyze: Wiesel describes the snow as being “gentle” and “warm.” This comparison is not what one would expect. Standing barefoot in the snow would be very painful. The cold would cut deep into one’s feet. So why does he say it is warm? Maybe his feet are frozen, numb to the pain. Perhaps the snow provides insulation from night’s bitter cold. Evaluate: This comparison creates a sense of peace, a moment without terror and fear. It is as if he is home again, safe and warm. The writing takes the reader by surprise. PAHS Summer Reading Assignment 2014 Dialectical Journal / Double-Entry Journal Evidence From Text (Quotations from the book.) (Make special note of the use of Literary Devices!) Page # Respond, Analyze & Evaluate