Journal # 8 (Post Modern)

1. What were your impressions of the last poem? (feelings, mood, like or dislike, difficult, easy, boring, interesting)
2. Choose one quote from the poem that stood out to you and explain why
3. Make one connection to something you have seen, heard, read or thought about.
4. Come up with one question or idea from the poem.
5. Choose one poetic device and cite examples and it explain why the author used that device in particular, what does it do for the poem?

Journal #7 (Modern)

1. What were your impressions of the last poem? (feelings, mood, like or dislike, difficult, easy, boring, interesting)
2. Choose one quote from the poem that stood out to you and explain why
3. Make one connection to something you have seen, heard, read or thought about.
4. Come up with one question or idea from the poem.
5. Choose one poetic device and cite examples and it explain why the author used that device in particular, what does it do for the poem?

Journal #6 (Victorian)

1. What were your impressions of the last poem? (feelings, mood, like or dislike, difficult, easy, boring, interesting)
2. Choose one quote from the poem that stood out to you and explain why
3. Make one connection to something you have seen, heard, read or thought about.
4. Come up with one question or idea from the poem.
5. Choose one poetic device and cite examples and it explain why the author used that device in particular, what does it do for the poem?

Journal # 5 (Romantic)

1. What were your impressions of the last poem? (feelings, mood, like or dislike, difficult, easy, boring, interesting)
2. Choose one quote from the poem that stood out to you and explain why
3. Make one connection to something you have seen, heard, read or thought about.
4. Come up with one question or idea from the poem.
5. Choose one poetic device and cite examples and it explain why the author used that device in particular, what does it do for the poem?

Journal #4 (Elizabethan)

1. What were your impressions of the last poem? (feelings, mood, like or dislike, difficult, easy, boring, interesting)
2. Choose one quote from the poem that stood out to you and explain why
3. Make one connection to something you have seen, heard, read or thought about.
4. Come up with one question or idea from the poem.
5. Choose one poetic device and cite examples and it explain why the author used that device in particular, what does it do for the poem?

Journal #3

Where in the text did you find Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confused by their identity?
 Reader: Have you ever struggled to find your identity?
World or Other: Can you think of a character in another text with a similar identity struggle? How about someone in pop culture? (Justin Beiber)
Text/Reader: How does your struggle to define your identity differ from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s struggle?
Text/Other Texts: How does R & G's identity struggle compare to Justin Beiber's struggle for self-identity?
Reader/World: Would you say the identity struggle teenagers face is more like R & G or Justin Beiber's? Why?
Reader/Other Literature: In what ways are you more similar to R & G or Justin Beiber's?
Dense question: Using what you learned about identity from R & G or Justin Beiber's, what advice would you give to teenagers who are struggling to discover their identity?

Journal #2

Based on everything you know now in the story, what do you think will happen and why do you think that? Make sure that you list specific points in the text that support your conclusions.