And Reading Logs

* READING LOGS HELP YOU KEEP A RECORD OF THE WORKS YOU HAVE STUDIED AT VISITATION & INTRODUCE YOU TO THE GENRE OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. READING LOG TITLE:Type the Title of the Work AUTHOR:Type the author’s first and last name COPYRIGHT:Type original year/most recent year DATE READ:Type season and year

* Using your copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, record the information you need for the first part of your Reading Log.

* Write a sentence describing what you think the MAIN message is in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in present tense.

* Maintain third person point of view when writing about literature. Did you use we, you, or I in your present tense sentence about Lion?

* Did you use contractions? Did you abbreviate words? If so, please revise.

* What is diction? * Word choice * Which word should you use: children or kids? * Children * You want to be formal but not stilted. * Avoid one and oneself.

* Look through your annotations for significant quotations—either from the narrator or that a character states. * Example: In an attempt to rescue her brother, Lucy cries out to Aslan: “Please—Aslan... can anything be done to save Edmund?” (141). * Do you know why I chose this quotation? * The quotation relates to the message that C.S. Lewis relays in his novel.

* What is MLA citation? * The Modern Language Association (MLA) created a style manual to help scholars cite their work so that they do not plagiarize. * There is a specific system of citation rules. * When analyzing ONE literary work, only cite the page number of a quote in parentheses (not the author and the page).

* Assume your reader is familiar with the work you are analyzing. * Provide BRIEF context to introduce the quotation to “locate” your reader in the work. Identify the speaker. * In an attempt to rescue her brother, Lucy cries out to Aslan: “Please—Aslan... can anything be done to save Edmund?” (141). * Be sure to pay attention to the detail of the punctuation. * For more examples, see Short stories or novels on page 118 in your green style manual.

* You use quotes in a literary analysis as evidence to support your interpretation of the work’s main message. * Be sure to provide one sentence of analysis after each quote to show how the quote relates to your interpretation of a major theme. * Example: In an attempt to rescue her brother, Lucy cries out to Aslan: “Please—Aslan... can anything be done to save Edmund?” (141). Lucy’s plea reveals the Christian belief in the possibility for salvation for all humanity, even the seemingly undeserving.

* Include THREE quotations that you introduce with the context and speaker. * Provide one sentence that shows the quotation’s relevance to the main message of the work. * Be sure to use quotation marks around the quote and cite the page number using MLA parenthetical citation style.