Name of Assignment: DJ Reading Notes
Subject: English 254
Facilitator/Teacher: Professor Morgan Andaluz
Description of Work/Assignment:
Create DJ notes (Dialect journal) based on the weeks’ reading assignments and other materials. Indicate feelings on the readings using the keys E (evaluate), Q (question), R (reflect), C (correlate), P (predict), CL (clarify), V (vocab), by providing the quote and feelings associated with it.
I believe that this assignment addresses global awareness skills as during my reading journal, I often have to correlate the passages to events that have happened in my life or in society. Also in the R (reflect) key, I have to analyze how events in a reading correlate to society as a whole. This can be difficult, but in the end, I think it provides good notes as it expands my thinking to not only characters in the story, but also to all of society.
I am most proud of my analysis’ for this assignment. I always try to provide detailed responses to every note by connecting them to my life and things I have seen, as well as how I think the quote will impact the rest of the story. I could easily make notes that don’t provide much emotion, but I much prefer to take my time to make developed responses that represent my feelings toward the readings.
During this assignment, I improved my global awareness skills by immersing myself in different cultures and applying them to my own life experiences. By learning about different issues in other countries, I was better able to understand our world while recognizing its faults. Reading from different cultures has brought so much into my life and I plan to keep reading books like this in the future.
The most difficult part of this task was taking the time to sit down and complete my DJ notes. It tends to wear me out by sitting in front of the computer and analyzing my reading, so it can be difficult to get all my notes down, especially since I have to go in-depth on all of my feelings. However, in the end, it is always worth it to get it done and I end up enjoying my results.
There isn’t much I would change about my notes, but if I could I would implement more keys to analyze my reading. There are so many things I would love to say about the readings we read in class, but they don’t fit into the keys we have, so I would enjoy adding more of my feelings through extra keys in this assignment.
This assignment relates to the book we are reading in class, The House of the Spirits. All of my keys (except the beginning portion) relate to the assigned chapters of the book, which show my feelings and connections to the story. Other than the readings, it relates to other experiences I have had in life and how I can connect them to the story and to our society.
One important skill I have gained from this assignment is the ability to look up vocabulary that I do not know while I am reading. I plan to keep doing this in the future as it is good to have, which will expand my vocabulary in the future.
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