Journal Entry 4

Instructions

Respond to all four prompts below after reading ALL assigned texts above.

Remember, if more than one text is assigned, you only need to annotate each text in Prompt #1. After the first Prompt, you can engage with any text you wish for Prompts 2-4.

Any submissions containing AI-generated text will receive an automatic 0.

Journal Entries should be a college-level paragraph in length, or a minimum of about 300+ words in total (as in the amount of text including all prompts combined) to meet expectation. Heres a guide to help you visualize what different paragraph lengths look like:

As a reminder, the prompts below are intended to get you engaging with the text in ways that are interesting to you. Besides an accurate summary, dont worry about whether or not your responses are right or wrong. Instead, focus on justifying and explaining your personal reading, interpretation, and associations.

And, as always, remember longer submissions qualify for bonus points!

1.) begin by annotating the assigned text (or texts). It will be extremely helpful to take notes as you read, even if you simply highlight, underline, or write down/type lines or sections that stand out.

Provide a beat-by-beat breakdown of the most significant events for someone who hasnt read this text before (no need to get into extraneous detail if you dont want to). Feel free to write in your own voice! (i.e., This total jerk named Pete decided he was going to beat up a bunch of kids, and so…) What are the most significant parts of this reading from beginning to end in your own words? (Extra help with annotation: )

2.) What associations do you make with this text? What does it make you think about? Do any personal experiences come to mind? Do any of the characters remind you of people you know and/or characters and/or scenes from other stories? Or does this reading make you think about other books, shows, movies, or scenes from other media? What about any world events, places, or important figures (both historical and/or contemporary)? Why do you think you’re making these associations?

*If no associations come to mind, cite a specific scene, moment, character, and/or section that stands out to you. What is it about the writing, style, language, and/or substance of this section that captured your attention? Do you think this was intentional on the authors part? Why or why not?

3.) What is the purpose of this text, and why do you think so? What moral, lesson, insight, philosophy, and/or thesis do you think the author is exploring? Or what value is there in this reading? Explain your reasoning for this conclusion. Cite 1-3 lines that support this conclusion or are noteworthy in some way, and why?

4.) What is your personal reaction or evaluation to this reading, the characters, specific scenes, the writing style, and so on? Is it engaging? Interesting? Awesome? Confusing? Stupid? Moving? Upsetting? Good? Bad? Why or why not?

Reading for assignment: https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/price/frog.htm