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ENG4U

Writing gives us an opportunity to express how we feel and what we think. Students will be
required to write journal entries. Students are to have someone edit their journal for them.
Students can take their journals home to work on. The final good copy of your journal is to be
submitted in class. Journals will be marked out of 20. Journal responses are to be a page long,
typed and single spaced in 12 point font. The journals are to be a response to an article, issue or
topic. We will be writing a total of 3 to 4 journals. Attention should be paid to proper grammar,
paragraph structure, and MLA formatting for embedding quotes. A rubric will be given to you as
well. The following questions are to be answered.

Who? – Who are the people involved in the event that the article describes?

What? – Give details about what has happened. You want to give as much detail as possible so
be very descriptive. You are to write as if you were an eye witness reporting to the teacher.

When? – When did the events in the article take place? You want to give the time, season, day
and any other details relevant to when this event took place.

Where? – This means where the event or incident took place. Again you want to focus on the
evidence you are given in the article.

Why? – Why do you think this has happened or is happening? If the first four “W’s” helped fill
the reader in on the specific details of the article, then this “W” should explain the implications
of the event and how it was reported. Your aim is to think critically and state your opinion
clearly in your own words. Quotes from the article should be properly embedded to support your
opinion.

Personal Reflection – This is the part that I am truly looking forward to reading because I want
to see how you feel and relate to the article. Subsequently, I want to know how you feel about
this article you have just read. By explaining “Why” the event was reported, you gave the
audience your opinion on the reporter’s position. The Personal Reflection is your opportunity to
establish a position of your own. Does the article remind you of something from the past? Can
you relate to it? How does this article speak to me or a racialized group? Do you think that this
article is biased? These are just a few of the infinite number of questions you can answer in your
personal reflection. Where necessary, quotes should be embedded to support or strengthen your
opinion.

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