The Awakening Unit Instructions

Reading Log
For each day that you have a selection to read from The Awakening, you will
compose an approximately one-page entry in your journal. For each entry, you
should identify one line from that night’s reading that particularly stood out to you
and explain why it stood out to you.

You may want to consider selecting a line that:

o Speaks to a personal experience you have had
o Arouses intense emotion for you
o Is representative of larger thematic elements of the novel
o Is perplexing for you
o Stands out to you for any other reason

At the end of the novel, you will select one entry that you feel is a good
representation of your work and it will be assessed for a quiz grade. The other five
entries will each count for one homework assignment.

Each day in class, you will be given the chance to share your entries with a small
group of peers (the same group with which you worked on the Frankenstein
presentations). Because of this, you must write an entry each night, not wait until
it is time to turn in the journal to write entries for previous days. If you do not have
a journal entry prepared for the day it is to be discussed, you will receive a zero for
that day’s homework grade.

PLEASE WRITE IN BLUE OR BLACK PEN FOR ALL JOURNAL ENTRIES.

PLEASE INCLUDE THE LINE YOU HAVE CHOSEN IN THE JOURNAL ENTRY.

Looking Ahead…
For your final project of the novel, you will be composing a fictional, dramatic,
poetic, or autobiographical piece that addresses a social issue or issues about which
you feel strongly. It may help to consider this while reading The Awakening.
Expanded instructions on this project are forthcoming.

Reading Schedule

Tuesday, November 30th

Chapters 1-7 Friday, December 3rd
Chapters 18-23
Wednesday, December 1st
Chapters 8-12 Monday, December 6th
Chapters 24-30
Thursday, December 2nd
Chapters 13-17 Tuesday, December 7th
Chapters 31-39 (End)

Groups for Sharing of Journals

Group 1: Quinn Ernwood, Kathryn Johnson, Brian Lam, Gianna George

Group 2: Quinn Donover, Kevin Guan, Fatima Rahman, Roy Baldwin

Group 3: Britney Davis, Allison Denenberg, Kevin Diep

Group 4: Annette Allen, Kelly Ca, Andres Vivas

Group 5: Kenya Crawford, Zoe Goldberg, Alexander Goldman, Andrew Chau

Group 6: Michael Gulledge, Stephen Henderson, Katherine Liang, Shelley Lian

Group 7: Randy Koonce, Adrian Lee, Mari Meas, Mashaal Syed

Group 8: Marcus Hines, Zachary Margolies, Paula Pacheco, Stephen Smith

Group 9: Andrew Rudoi, Nick Tannen, Mackenzie Warren