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Choice Novel Double Journal Entry Packet
For your choice novel, you will be completing double entry journals. Please use this packet to keep everything safe in one place. DON’T LOSE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Important Dates:
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First Double Entry Journal due December 1, 2014
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Second Double Entry Journal due December 5, 2014
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Third Double Entry Journal due December 9, 2014
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Fourth Double Entry Journal due December 12, 2014
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Fifth Double Entry Journal due December 16, 2014
Part One: Double Entry Journals
Directions: As you read your independent novel, you will maintain a copy of this log with a record of quotes and meaningful connections.
 You must have a total of five entries for your book
 You must use a different option for each entry
 Choose five quotes evenly distributed throughout the book
 Each quote from the novel must be 2-4 sentences in length
We will go over an example in class for how to complete these journals, but PLEASE ask for help if you get stuck!!!

Analysis Option #1: Exploring the Personal Response
1. Quote in MLA format: Select text that seems to hint at bigger meanings and/or resonates with you as an individual.
2. Insights: What bigger idea does the author try to reveal through this quote? How does this quote fit into the bigger context of the chapter or the work? Explain this in one paragraph.
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Analysis Option #2: Exploring the Personal Response
1. Quote in MLA format: Select text that seems to hint at bigger meanings and/or resonates with you as an individual.
2. Connections: Where else do you see this idea? Consider literature, music, history, and other areas of cultural literacy (one paragraph).
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Analysis Option #3: Clarifying the Text
1. Quote in MLA format: Select text that requires clarification.
2. Insights: Closely read, analyze and interpret the quote – look at the connotation and denotation of the words. Break the quote down into each word and figure out what each word means. Put these ideas into your own words in a new paragraph.
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Analysis Option #4: Clarifying the Text
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Quote in MLA format: Select text that requires clarification.
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Connections: What other personal experiences do you know of that are similar and can help shed light on this quote? Explain this in one paragraph.
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Analysis Option #5: Analyzing the Text
1. Quote in MLA format: Select a quote that seems to be layered with detail and nuance (what is it saying when you read between the lines?).
2. Insights: Pull apart the quote and think about what choices the author makes (diction, syntax, and figurative language) to communicate his/her idea. Explain the author’s decisions in a new paragraph.
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Analysis Option #6: Analyzing the Text
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Quote in MLA format: Select a quote that seems to be layered with detail and nuance (what is it saying when you read between the lines?).
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Connections: Compare/contrast the author’s style to another author you have read during your high school career (one paragraph).
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Double Entry Journal Rubric
Category
Meaningful Quote
Selection
Content/Critical
Thinking/Insight x3
Mechanics
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* Quotes are at least 2-4 sentences long
* Quotes are evenly distributed throughout the novel.
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* Missing 1 requirement OR 1 requirement is problematic.
* Quotes are deep enough to analyze.
* Clearly explains and analyzes the
* Explains and analyzes the text text according to the various analytical purposes.
* Analysis is at least one welldeveloped paragraph.
* Less than 3 errors according to the various analytic purposes, but may be vague at times. in spelling, grammar, MLA format and punctuation.
* Less than 5 errors in spelling, grammar, MLA format and punctuation.
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* Missing 2 requirements OR 2 requirements are problematic.
* Analysis is vague or confusing.
* Less than 8 errors in spelling, grammar, MLA format and punctuation. than 2
D/F
* Missing more requirements or more than 2 requirements are problematic.
* Analysis is simply restating the quote and/or no new insight is provided and/or insight is confusing.
* More than 8 errors in spelling, grammar, MLA format and punctuation.
_______/50 Analysis Option #1: Exploring the Personal Response
_______/50 Analysis Option #2: Exploring the Personal Response
_______/50 Analysis Option #3: Clarifying the Text
_______/50 Analysis Option #4: Clarifying the Text
_______/50 Analysis Option #5: Analyzing the Text
_______/50 Analysis Option #6: Analyzing the Text