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Introducing the Strategy: Double-Entry Journal
A double-entry journal is a two-column journal in which a passage is written on the left side (textual evidence) and a response to the passage is written in the right column (commentary). Responses might include asking questions of the text, forming personal opinions about the text, interpreting the text, or reflecting on the process of making meaning of the text.
2. As you read Walk Two Moons, you will take notes in a double-entry journal to record your thoughts and questions in response to your reading. You may respond in these ways:
• Write about an experience in your own life that relates to what is happening in the novel.
• Write your opinions about what is happening in the novel.
• Write your questions about what is happening in the novel.
• Make inferences or draw conclusions based on what is happening in the text.
• Record the definitions for tough or interesting vocabulary you come across in your reading.
Draw a horizontal line under each entry. Complete this example as you read Chapter 1 of Walk Two Moons.
my Notes
Passage from Text
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Personal Response/ Commentary
“Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true—he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.”
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This passage reminds me of when I had to move away from my old house in the city. I was really angry that we couldn’t bring the playground with us. It sounds like she really likes trees and being outdoors and that she will have to give up those things in her new home. Why is she moving, and where is her mother?
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