(Double Entry Journal)
1
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Copy the passage in the story that helps you answer the following questions as you listen and read the story of Jonathan Livingston
Seagull.
2
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Write your reflections in the column to the right.
1. What did Jonathan love more than anything else?
More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.
The main character is a bird who would rather fly than eat. He is different from the other seagulls. He seems to be a loner.
2. What did his father tell him to study?
If you must study, then study food, and how to get it. This flying business is all very well, but you can't eat a glide, you know. Don't you forget that the reason you fly is to eat."
This is one way
Jonathan’s father shows his care for him by telling him about more important things to do for survival.
3. What was the "breakthrough"
Terminal velocity! A seagull at two hundred fourteen miles per hour! It was a breakthrough, the greatest single moment in the history of the Flock, and in that moment a
Jonathan Seagull was able to make a new record and make a dent in the history of

new age opened for Jonathan Gull. seagulls and could possibly be an inspiration to other seagulls. This is probably one of the few climaxes in his life and may have felt really elated to have done such an achievement.
4. Why was Jonathan cast out of the flock?
To be centered for shame meant that he would be cast out of gull society, banished to a solitary life on the Far Cliffs.
5. According to Jonathan, why is a gull's life so short?
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
Other members thought Jonathan, one who tries to go farther in life, is just goofing off, giving up his responsibilities on food for flying.
Jonathan is a circle full of creativity while the rest are squares that stick too much with the ordinary.
The other seagulls don’t find a higher purpose for life that perhaps none even does or even notices the chances to do great achievements.
“Short” may refer to
“limited”. Boredom, fear and anger are hindrances to do such accomplishments.

6. Where did Jonathan go at the end of part one?
And Jonathan Livingston Seagull rose with the two star bright gulls to disappear into a perfect dark sky.
He went somewhere far to discover and venture in new places perhaps using his flying skills to get far in life and experience new things.
Vocabulary Definitions:
Dazzling- deeply impressive
Terminal- extreme
Sagged- drooping; hanging loosely
My Questions:
1. Why don’t the other seagulls understand Jonathan?
2. Would Jonathan continue to live the outcast way of life or would he still share his talents with the other seagulls?
3. Do you agree with the Jonathan’s ideals?
4. How could Jonathan have convinced the flock of his ideals?
5. If Jonathan could have shared his flying skills with the rest of the flock, how would it affect them?