Sample Reading Log Response With Weekly Reading Log (Page 2 of 3) in pdf

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Example of great writing and why

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Examples of show not tell or vivid imagery

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Realistic or powerful dialogue

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Interesting format and its impact

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Genre characteristics and the impact on the story

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Powerful writing and what it impacts (character, setting, conflict, climax, resolution)

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Theme/Universal Themes—power, change, order vs. chaos, structure, relationships,

systems, conflict, patterns,

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Depth and Complexity Prompts—change over time, patterns, trends, big ideas, ethics,

rules, multiple perspectives, across discipline, parallel events, converging events,

paradoxes.

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Significant passages about the topic

ANALYSIS COMPONENT EXAMPLES:

Paulsen really gets into the mind of Brian, the protagonist, and his fear in this

section. The reader can feel the anxiety and realization of fear and loneliness by

Paulsen’s use of short, choppy, fragmented sentences, mirroring panic in Brian’s

mind: “Gone, he thought finally, it was all gone. All silly and gone. No bows, no

spears, or fish or berries.” (114). This is an extreme low point for Brian and the

reader feels his desperation in Paulsen’s sentence structure.

Beah grabs the reader by ears and drags him into the story with the prologue. He

describes a conversation with his high school friends where they question him about

his life in Sierrra Leone. Beah captures the disconnect between the Western world,

especially young people, and the brutal realities of war when his friends ask if he saw

“people running around with guns and shooting each other?” (1). After he responds

affirmatively, one out-of-touch friend replies with a callous “[c]ool” (1). The reader

realizes that the story that follows deserves much more than that response. This is an

incredibly chilling and revealing opening.

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