1. Course content, requirements, and expectations as stated on the syllabus.
2. Any aspect of the lecture presented by the professor.
3. Any aspect of the reading assigned for a particular class.
4. Any aspect of the in-class group work or class discussion.
5. A more extensive treatment of a topic written on during the in-class writing portion of the class session.
6. Select a 10-20 line portion or more of a poem you read for a class session for your critical/analytical response.
7. Write a poem that imitates the style and content of a poem you were assigned to read for a particular class.
8. Write a response to the event of the writer's life as described in a textbook head note or in other reading you have done.
9. Select a significant prose passage in an assigned reading and analyze its meaning and relevance to the work as a whole.
10. Discuss the relevance of piece of literature read for the class to an article on a contem-porary issue from a newspaper of magazine.
11. Discuss the relevance of a work beyond the discipline of literature.
12. Discuss how you would "teach" a particular work if you were the professor.
13. Select a work by an author you really disliked and describe the reasons why you dis-liked it.
14. Select a work by an author you really liked and describe the reasons why you liked it.
15. Select a passage that gave you difficulty and discuss the reasons why it was difficult.

Sample Journal Entry