Dialectical Note-taking Sheet (Empire of the Summer Moon) Summer reading for incoming seniors DIRECTIONS: A dialectical note taking sheet is another name for a double-entry journal or a response journal. This sheet records a dialogue, or conversation, between the ideas in the text (the words that you are reading) and your own ideas. While you are reading, choose at least 6 passages that stand out to you and record them in the left-hand column. In the right-hand column, write your in-depth to the text. (3-5 sentences) Be sure to include any thoughts, questions, insights, and ideas that you think are powerful, significant, thought provoking, or puzzling. You may attach additional note taking sheets if needed. Quotation sample Page This Shows… Scott Fitzgerald once suggested that 304 This shows how Quanah Parker re-invented ”F. himself after what appeared to be a are no second acts in American ‘there lives’. Quanah Parker’s life serves as an disaster for him and his band of Comanche’s. It also suggests that his exception to that rule. personal characteristics helped him overcome his circumstances. What were After the disaster of defeat and capture they? by the United States military he would spend the rest of his life remaking and reinventing himself into a prosperous, tax paying citizen of the United States of America. The notion that a late Stone Age barbarian would move into the mainstream of industrial American culture was just short of ridiculous. Parker was to become a bourgeois statesman, a prosperous burgher, a religious leader and businessman who played the game of capitalism as well as anyone in Texas. Quanah never looked back.” (Chapter 20, p 304) 1. 2. Quotation: Page: This Shows: 3.
Dialectical Note-taking Sheet (Empire of the Summer Moon) Summer reading for incoming seniors DIRECTIONS: A dialectical note taking sheet is another name for a double-entry journal or a journal. This sheet records a dialogue, or conversation, between the ideas in the text (the words that you are reading) and your own ideas. While you are reading, choose at least 6 passages that stand out to you and record them in the left-hand column. In the right-hand column, write your in-depth response to the text. (3-5 sentences) Be sure to include any thoughts, questions, insights, and ideas that you think are powerful, significant, thought provoking, or puzzling. You may attach additional note taking sheets if needed. Quotation sample ”F. Scott Fitzgerald once suggested that ‘there are no second acts in American lives’. Quanah Parker’s life serves as an exception to that rule. After the disaster of defeat and capture by the United States military he would spend the rest of his life remaking and reinventing himself into a prosperous, tax paying citizen of the United States of America. The notion that a late Stone Age barbarian would move into the mainstream of industrial American culture was just short of ridiculous. Parker was to become a bourgeois statesman, a prosperous burgher, a religious leader and businessman who played the game of capitalism as well as anyone in Texas. Quanah never looked back.” (Chapter 20, p 304) Page 304 This Shows… This shows how Quanah Parker re-invented himself after what appeared to be a disaster for him and his band of Comanche’s. It also suggests that his personal characteristics helped him overcome his circumstances. What were they? 1. 2. Quotation: 3. Page: This Shows:
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