Dialectical Journaling

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Dialectical Journaling

• Quote
• Include page

Response At least 100 words
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What to write about

• Compare an event in the story with a similar one
  in your own life.
• Compare a character's emotional response with
  yours in a similar situation.
• Write some advice you'd like to give a character,
  or author.
• Predict what you think will happen and tell why.

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• Explain what you would have done in a certain
  situation.
• Describe your response (emotional/intellectual)
  to your reading.
• Comment on the author's style, including a brief
  example of it.
• Explain a word/phrase that you could not let go
  by without researching it.
• Evaluate the writing, explaining why it is or
  isn't good.
• Compare some aspect of this reading with that of
  another literary work.
• Tell what makes a particular character/setting
  appeal to you.
• Share how events of this novel have caused a
  change in your views.

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• Tell about the qualities of a character you
  dislike.
• List some questions you'd ask a character/author,
  given the opportunity.
• Contrast the society of this novel to your own.
• Figure out the ways a character changed and what
  caused the changes.
• If your novel deals with a clear-cut moral issue
  or dilemma, what massage or philosophy is the
  author sending the reader?
• To what extent is a character responsible for his
  own success/failure?
• Explain any characters, events, or objects that
  are symbolic.
• Describe an experience a character has that you
  would wish for yourself.

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• Point out effective examples of figurative
  language (or other literary devices).
• Respond to what seems to be the most important
  sentence or word in reading assignment and give
  reasons for choice.
• Comment on the relevance of a passage to its
  historical context or to the present.