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Purpose
Interactive Journals are intended to:Create a review “warehouse” for your ISU reading
Encourage active reading
Help you process what you read
Organize connections within the text
Organize connections between texts Encourage creative thought
Content Rich
What INFORMATION should be in my journal?
Quotations from the reading
Questions about the reading
New Vocabulary
Information about/examples of Literary Terms
Original writing
Outside connections
Personal thoughts on the texts
Journaling Methods
Writing
Sketch noting
Mind mapping
Charting
Collaging
Connecting
Other (let me know)
Writing
Plain recording of thoughts and ideas
Sentences
Paragraphs
Lists
Point form notes
Definitions
Traditional writing methods must be in your journal
Sketch Noting
Visual representations are added to text
Great method for people who are “doodlers”
Colorful “Day Doodle” is one example- imagine a character in the “Saturday” place with doodles and notes about him/her as a journal page.
Mind Mapping
Organizing notes around a central idea and brainstorming from that. Free-association note taking.
Often a theme, motif or image is the centerpiece with examples from the text, personal thoughts, connections to other pieces, etc- in the offshoots
Color organizing makes for easily identifiable thought streams
CollagingPasting items into your journal where they can deepen meaning.
Pictures, copies of sections of text
The act of “collaging” an idea from text into a visual is a form of processing which deepens our understanding if done with purpose and intention. Keep your eyes open for “artifacts & ephemera” that might work in collage pages.
ConnectingAdding items (in any of the style methods) that relate to the current text
Poems
Songs
TED talks/You Tube videos/Feature films
Stories/novels/cartoons
Newspaper articles/world events
Art
These items will be useful when you create your presentation.
General Guidelines for Journals
Should be content rich!We aren’t adding doodles, collage, charts, etc for their own sakes. These are always used to process our current content and to add deeper meaning.
Should ALL incorporate traditional writing plus at least 2 other styles.
Should include color when possible to create more compelling visual organization.
Should be with you EVERY DAY. You never know when an idea will strike.