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**AP English Language and Composition ** **Dialectical Journal for //The Land Remembered// ** Creating and maintaining a dialectical journal will help you tremendously as you read your novel over the summer.

“A dialectical journal is a CONVERSATION between YOU and WHAT YOU ARE READING. You simply write down PASSAGES that MAKE YOU THINK, or INTEREST YOU, and write about your thoughts. This process is an important way to understand a piece of literature. By writing about literature, you **make your own meaning of the work** in order to **truly understand a piece of literature**. When you do this yourself, then the text belongs to you—you have made it yours. The passages are there for everyone to read; however, the connections and interpretations are uniquely yours.” – definition from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory In your word document, create a table like the one. Label one for each of the four required categories: YOU MUST HANDWRITE your responses into the table and number them, please. Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis. || **Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection ** What is happening? How much time is covered? What patterns do you notice? **Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect ** ||
 * What is a dialectical journal? **
 * 1) Form and Structure
 * 2) Purpose/Tone/Style
 * 3) Imagery and/or Detail
 * 4) Rhetorical Devices
 * **TEMPLATE 1of4:** [[file:dj-english/Structural Analysis of Literature.pdf|**Form and Structure**]]** (at least THREE Passages for this category) ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text **

<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[|Purpose] <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> / <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[|Tone] <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> / <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[|Style] **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> (at least THREE passages for this category) ** || <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis. || **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection ** <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">What is the author trying to accomplish? What argument(s) is he/she trying to make? What is the author’s <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">[|attitude toward the subject] <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">? How is <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">[|TONE] <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;"> revealed through <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">[|DICTION] <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;"> and <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">[|SYNTAX] <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">? **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect ** ||
 * **TEMPLATE 2of4:**
 * **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text **

<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis. || **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection ** <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">The imagery of a literary work comprises the set of images that appeal to the senses. Look for recurring images (light/darkness, colors, clothing, odors, sounds). Point out details (numbers, facts, description) the author uses to support the argument. How are these images and/or details used? What emotions do they EVOKE? **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect ** ||
 * **TEMPLATE 3of 4:** [|**Imagery**]**<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> and or Detail (at least THREE passages for this category) ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text **

<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis. || **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection ** <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Look for examples of <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">[|LOGOS (an appeal to the audience using LOGIC), PATHOS (An appeal to the audience’s EMOTIONS), and ETHOS (an appeal to the audience’s ETHICAL or MORAL BELIEFS)] **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect ** ||
 * ** TEMPLATE 4of4 ****<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">: **[|**Rhetorical Devices**]**<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> ( **[|**Examples of DIFFERENT Rhetorical Devices**]**<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">( <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">at least THREE <span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 16px;">passages) NO DUPLICATIONS ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif";">Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text **