By the end of Week 1, we will introduce a semester-long assignment know as Journal Entries
Each journal entry will be around 1 to 2 pages in length. Unlike the essay assignments, this one does not require typical paragraph structure.
Each of the four journal entries should contain at least three (3) literary devices, or, terms taken from this online literature-based glossary.
Literary Devices and Literary Terms – The Complete List Links to an external site.
Your written response to each of four short stories will make up a journal entry.
Essentially, you’ll give each story a “review” of sorts. While explaining or describing what the story means to you, as a reader seeking to analyze texts in a thoughtful or thought-provoking manner, your journal entry may also consider the impact the text on a larger or global audience.
Each journal entry may likely have two parts, one opinion and the other fact.
To facilitate the writing process, it might be best to decide on a theme that pervades or occupies the literature text at hand. Examples of such theme include love, revenge, the individual vs. society, and more.
The five stories that will be included in this journal entry writing process are as follows:
1.) Kazuo Ishiguro “A Family Supper”
KAZUO ISHIGURO: A FAMILY SUPPER (wordpress.com) Links to an external site.
2.) James Baldwin “Sonny’s Blues”
Sonny’s Blues James Baldwin TEXT.pdf (librarycalendar.com) Links to an external site.
3.) Kate Chopin “A Story of an Hour”
“The Story of an Hour” text (katechopin.org) Links to an external site.
4.) Chinua Achebe “Dead Men’s Path”
Dead Man’s Path.pdf (pbworks.com) Links to an external site.
*alternatives to the above four stories may include: Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” or Guy de Maupassant “The Necklace”
(Jackson – The Lottery–Shirley Jackson (bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com) Links to an external site.
(de Maupassant – The Necklace Full Text – The Necklace – Owl Eyes Links to an external site.)
Please note the various lengths of the above stories — we’ll go over the process of searching for links to each text — and try to plan the order in which you’ll read and respond to each of them. Since our Summer I session is five weeks long, it would be logical and appropriate to set a goal of reading one story and writing one journal entry each week.
The journal entries should be submitted as a single document on the last week of class. High school writing..
