Dialectical Note-Taking Sheet (Fiction Book) Summer Reading For Incoming 10th Graders printable pdf download

Dialectical Note-Taking Sheet (Fiction Book) Summer Reading For Incoming 10th Graders

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Dialectical Note-taking Sheet (Fiction Book)

Summer reading for incoming 10

graders

DIRECTIONS: While you are reading, choose at least 6 passages that stand out to you and record them in the left-hand

column. In the right-hand column, write your response to the text. (3-5 sentences) Look for passages from the novel that

address the following:



A theme or central idea developed over the course of the novel, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by

specific details



How complex characters develop, interact with other characters, advance the plot or develop the theme.



Passages that strongly support an analysis of what the novel says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

You may attach additional sheets of paper if needed, or you can access the BHS summer reading site

( ) and download the template to type your responses in a Microsoft

Word document.

Quotation sample (from Animal Farm)

Page:

This Shows…

“When the key of the store- shed was lost, the whole

…how the author uses irony to demonstrate a human

farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it

weakness. The animals blame a scapegoat for

down the well. Curiously enough, they went on

something that goes wrong and cling to this mistaken

believing this even after the mislaid key was found

belief even when the truth is obvious. This seems like

under a sack of meal.”

clear evidence to me that often- times people are more

interested in their own beliefs than in the truth.

Dialectical Note-Taking Sheet (Fiction Book) Summer Reading For Incoming 10th Graders