Name________________________
English ________ Period ________
Date_________________________
Amended Assignment Requirements:***
Dialectical Journals for 1984 or Lord of the Flies
Directions: If reading 1984, complete one dialectical journal
for each chapter.* If reading LOF complete two entries per
chapter. You must do twenty.** (This gives you four entries you
can skip—in the case of 1984 that would be four chapters, and in
LOF
that would be four entries) Re-create the format used below on your own paper.
Using a two-column format like the one modeled below, copy a quoted line or
passage in the left column. For the quoted line or passage, choose something that
strikes you as interesting, important, memorable, or even questionable or
disturbing. What does the passage mean? For the personal response, you might
think about the following:
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How do the ideas in the text relate to our lives?
What is the main idea or underlying value (theme)?
What is the author’s purpose/perspective?
What is the importance of its structure?
How does the author’s style help its meaning?
Journal for:____________ (title, author’s name, chapter)
Quoted line/passage (include internal
Your Response
citation)
Example:
Example:
“The synagogue resembled a large railroad
Wiesel is about to be deported from his
station: baggage and tears. The altar was
hometown. The imagery he creates through
shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the
the parallel structure of the second
walls themselves bare. There were so many
sentence not only describes the physical
of us, we could hardly breathe. The twenty-
destruction but also how the people must
four hours we spent there were horrendous”
feel. This is the place that Wiesel spent so
(Wiesel 22)
much time at the beginning of the book and
now the time there is “horrendous.”
Name________________________
English ________ Period ________
Date_________________________
A break-down of numbered entries for your information:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Lord of the Flies
Part One, eight chapters
12 Chapters---select two passages/
Part Two, ten chapters
quotations from each chapter***
Part Three, six chapters ***
***3 pts for each copied quotation or passage (must be exact, cited with page
number)
5 pts for each response
8 x 20 = 160 pts---(equivalent to about FIVE quiz grades!)
DUE: Friday, June 3
TOTAL: 24 possible dialectical journals; you must complete 20 journal entries
***Instead---15 minimum
(any chapter, as long as you have
variety and do at least one from the final chapter)
----@ 5 pts
each for a total of 75 points
Extra Credit
Find current news articles, comic strips, etcetera that reference your novel or use
its principles whether in topic or theme. Include MLA citation for where you found
the source. You may find up to three articles for extra credit. Each one is worth
up to 5 points.
Name________________________
English ________ Period ________
Date_________________________