AP English Language & Composition/ Mr. Lantz
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Summer Reading Assignment 2014-2015 AP English Language and Composition Dialectical Journal:
1984 by: George Orwell Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
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Brave New World by: Aldous Huxley Huxley´s vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World -- a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class.
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Assignment: Students will read the selected works and compose a dialectical journal that reflects their understanding and analysis of their reading. Each entry in the dialectical journal must be hand written and organized neatly in a composition book or a spiral notebook. Loose-leaf paper and folders is not appropriate. There must be one entry for each chapter of both books – students should organize their journal in two parts – one for 1984 and another for A Brave New World. There are 25 chapters in 1984 – students must have 25 journal entries. There are 18 chapters in Brave New World – students must have 18 journal entries. Three discussion questions must be written beneath each quote. A dialectical journal is another name for a double entry journal or a reader-response journal. A dialectical journal records a dialogue, or conversation, between the ideas in the text (quotes from the text you are reading) and the ideas of the reader. Students should maintain a dialogue in your journal, have a conversation with the text and with yourself. Write down your thoughts, questions, insights, and ideas while you read. A dialectical journal can include all types of things: class notes, discussion notes, notes on essays / papers, reactions to readings. You, the reader are reading something and then responding to it with your feelings and ideas. Students must analyze the text and include the following elements in their dialectical journal: tone, purpose, theme, call to action, rhetorical strategies, and appeals to the audience. If you have questions do not hesitate to contact me via email.
Dialectical Journal This is a dialectical journal. You may use it as an example to make your own. Quotation
Page #
Why do I find this quotation interesting or important?
Discussion Questions
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Dialectical Journal Rubric
Level 4 (90 – 100 points)
Level 3 (80 – 89 points)
Level 2 (70 – 79 points)
Level 1 (50 – 65 points)
Detailed, meaningful
Less detailed but still good
Few good details
Hardly and good details
Thoughtful, avoids clichés
Intelligent, discusses theme
Vague, unsupported, plot summary
Plot summaries and paraphrases
Literary Elements
Discusses diction, imagery, syntax, etc and how these contribute to meaning
Includes them but does not explain how they contribute to meaning
Lists literary elements but little discussion of meaning
Few literary elements, almost no discussion of meaning
Questions and Connections
Insightful, personal connections, thoughtprovoking questions
Some personal connections, questions arise from text
Few connections, obvious question
Few connections, no questions
Coverage of Text
Covers text thoroughly
Covers important parts thoroughly
Covers most parts, but quickly
Way too short
Presentation
Neat, organized, looks professional, follows directions
Neat and readable, follows directions
Neat but hard to read, does not follow directions
Hard to read, does not follow directions
Quotations & Plot Details
Interpretation
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