Dialectical Journals for 1984 Or Lord of the Flies

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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:

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 citation) / Your Response
Example:
“The synagogue resembled a large railroad station: baggage and tears. The altar was shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the walls themselves bare. There were so many of us, we could hardly breathe. The twenty-four hours we spent there were horrendous” (Wiesel 22) / Example:
Wiesel is about to be deported from his hometown. The imagery he creates through the parallel structure of the second sentence not only describes the physical destruction but also how the people must feel. This is the place that Wiesel spent so much time at the beginning of the book and now the time there is “horrendous.”

A break-down of numbered entries for your information:

Nineteen Eighty-Four Lord of the Flies

Part One, eight chapters12 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.