Double Entry Journals for Animal Farm

DUE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9th

70 Points/ 10 Per Section
For our first novel, you will be doing a double entry journal for ONE CHAPTER in your
reading of chapters 6-8.

Requirements:

 Chapter number
 Summary of the chapter (3 point summaries)
 Important passage selection
 Explanation of important passage
 Personal reactions, beliefs, and opinions about the chapter
 Allegorical Connection
 Literary Device selection
 Predictions or expectations

Formatting requirements:

 Typed passage entry

 Times New Roman, Size 12
 Use of template on Schoology

Breakdown:

Summary: You will need to summarize your chapter in three bullet points; no more, no less.
Pick the three most important parts.

Important Passage Selection: You will choose ONE important passage from the chapter. Pay
attention to important parts of the chapter that may have value to other parts of the
chapter. The passages to select might be quotes that stand out to you, events that you think
seem interesting or odd, or parts you think might be important later in the chapter or
novel. Your passage should be at least 5 sentences in length. This passage selection needs
to be cited in MLA format. Look at your notes for guidance.

Explanation of Passage: You will explain how your passage is important to the text. Be sure
not to write in first or second person. This is literary analysis. Your analysis should be at
least 3-5 sentences in length.

Personal Reactions, Beliefs, and Opinions: This is where you will explain what stood out to
you about the chapter, how you reacted, what you believe, and your opinions about the
passage in the text. For this part, you may use first person or second person. Your
personal reactions, beliefs, or opinions should be at least 3-5 sentences in length.
Allegorical Connection: Since every part of this novel bears some political and historical
importance to Russia from 1917-1950, make a connection here between the notes we’ve
discussed and what is currently happening in the novel. Use your notes to make
assumptions about the history.

Literary Device Selection: Find a passage from this chapter that demonstrates one of the
literary devices we’ve spoken about. Be sure to explain how your selection is an example of
the literary device you’ve chosen. You may only use anthropomorphism once throughout
all ten double entry journals. You may use any of the literary devices we’ve discussed
this year, but you may only use each one once. If you used personification or
anthropomorphism for your last journals, you MAY NOT use it for this one.

Predictions or Expectations: Here you will predict or discuss what your expectations are
for the rest of the novel. You may predict what you think will happen, or what you expect to
happen. Be sure to be detailed in your prediction or expectation. Your prediction should
explain WHY you believe this will happen. This section should be three to five sentences.
You may also use first or second person narration here.

*You will NOT be writing this in paragraph format like an essay. You will be
using a template and filling in the boxes.

Things to remember:

 Punctuation goes AFTER the citation, making the citation part of the sentence, but
not part of the quote. Do NOT put the end punctuation inside of the quote.
 If a section requires a quote and you do not have a citation, the entire section is a
zero.
 Follow all directions for each section. If you are missing information, you will lose
points.
 All proper nouns need to be capitalized. You need punctuation for your sentences.
Basically, you need to follow the grammatical rules that you’ve been learning all
your lives. If you make grammatical errors, I will take off a point PER MISTAKE.
 DO NOT use first or second person unless specifically told you are allowed to in a
section. If you do, I will take off TWO POINTS PER USAGE.

You will be graded on following directions and how well you answer each part. The more
detail, the better score you will get in each section. You do need to follow MLA format. You
also need in-text citations for two categories, so make sure to include those. (Author’s Last
Name Page Number).