Responding to Literature

| Reading Log | Double-Entry Journal | Point of View Writing | Comparative Essays |  Character Analysis| Theme Analysis | Total Effect Analysis | Symbolism/Irony Analysis | Book Report |

Aim: How to write a reading log?

Log entries will consist of such things as scene summary; comments on the action, characters, language, themes, and so forth; and your personal reactions to those elements of the play.

Record all log entries in a notebook.

You will decide what to write and what forms to use, but there are three rules that you do need to follow:

1. Clearly label each entry with the act and scene number, and date.
2. Write after every reading assignment or activity.
3. Over the course of reading the book, respond to the topic of your website regularly so that by the end you will have become an expert of that particular subject.

For each reading, do the minimum of three of the following:

1. Summarize the action of the scene.
2. Comment in one sentence on what you think is the significance of this scene. What would be the play like without it?
3. Ask questions about the scene. Has anything in the scene caused you confusion? Ask one of the characters in the scene a question- or ask me a question.
4. Quote lines from the scene that you enjoyed and comment on them.
5. Describe your reaction to a character, action, or ideas you confronted in the scene.
6. Talk about the relationships characters have to one another, quoting specific words or phrases to give evidence for your opinion.
7. Pretend you are an actor playing one of the characters in the scene. Get inside that character's mind. How the character feels about herself, about other characters, about the situation of the scene.
8. Record the references in each scene that are relevant to your topic.

Use your topic as your " Entrance Ticket" to the book or a microscope to look into the details and nuances of the book. Each week on Friday we shall share our logs and discuss various topics posted .