Tips for
Journaling for your summer reading:
As you
actively read:
ü Ask questions
ü Predict
ü Visualize the (action, setting or the moment)
ü Connect
ü Respond
“Respond” is
where the journaling begins. Choose 2 or 3 passages from each chapter that were
most interesting to you. Write down the passages (hopefully, each passage is not an entire page!) and then write your reaction or response. DO NOT summarize, do not re-write, but instead describe your personal
feelings regarding that specific passage.
Try organizing
your thoughts in a graphic manner if it will help to make more sense of the journaling
process
1984 by George
Orwell
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TEXT
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RESPONSE
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“The Ministry of love was the really frightening
one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry
of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to
enter except on official business and then only by penetrating through a maze
of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors and hidden machine-gun nest. Even
the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced
guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.” Page 8
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This passage shows just how isolated Winston and
the rest of the world is in 1984. The hope to love is seemingly impossible,
without being severely injured. The metaphor of this impossibility is similar
to our lives today, we want love, who doesn’t, but at the cost of getting
hurt? If that is truly the case, then finding love in this world is just as
impossible as it is in Winston’s world: cold guarded and treacherous.
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Remember the
goal is to write your own personal reaction to the text passage you choose, not
to re-tell an event or summarize. Make connections and make your responses
meaningful. Don’t be afraid to ask questions and challenge the actions of the
characters or the authors purpose in the midst of your journaling. Consider this:
if you are struggling to understand a certain segment of the text you are reading,
that is the perfect time to stop and start journaling, you may find clarity.
Happy Summer Reading!
Miss Sanders
ELAR-NIAA
