Examples of Double-Entry Journals from Level 40

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Here are some examples of double-entry journal entries from various Level 40 students for an article from Reader's Digest. Notice how even when the students chose the same sentences, their comments were quite different.

Sentences from Article Student's thoughts.

Some will ask the animal's advice, then pause to let the dog respond. That's very interesting. I often ask my dog for advice, too. Sometimes, if I met something hard to say to my parents, I often say to my dog, and ask my dog for help. My dog is very clever. They might know when I was happy and when I was upset. I could get some comfort from my dog. If he know I was upset, he will sway his tail, his movements are very funny.

Some will ask the animal's advice, then pause to let the dog respond. You have a chance to talk and talk, and you don't need to listen to your dog. You can throw out something in your mind. You don't need to care about how your dog feeling. You can talk good or bad thing to him or her.

Sandi instinctively felt that the challenge of helping the animal would give her son something other than his own pain to focus on. Though there were no new words in this sentence, it took me a long time to understand. Sandi wanted the animal to help her son forget the pain from the accident. This sentence is a objective clause. "that . . . focus on" is object of the whole sentence.

Pets do marvelous things. That's the thesis. The writer use a example to show people the strange and mysterious power of the pets. It's very important and very clever for start the article.

Jason Burns was just 3 1/2 when his parents divorced and his father left. Ever since, . . . handling responsibility well. How sad Jason is. Some sorrowful things happened in his family when he was just a little child. And then, he still lived very happy. No more sad around him. If this for me, I guess I would got over for this situation. I have an example here about my elder brother show is my cousin. When he was 8 years old, his parents divorced and he lived with his mother. Then, he couldn't restore it, and end, he became a very weak person. Until now, he was still very shy and stayed at home all the time.

Pets make good therapists because they play the same role human therapists do. I have never found that pets make good therapists. I fed cats, rabbits, many kinds of pets, and I fed a nice dog after I came Canada, but why didn't I find pets play the same role human therapists do? I think maybe I don't have psychology health problem at all. I'm confident, brave and believable. Ha Ha

The two of them blossomed. I have looked up the word, blossom, in the dictionary. It means flower or flourished. I guess the reason why the author want to use this word here maybe he want to say what good friends Jason and Misty are.

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Sentences from Article	Student's thoughts.
Some will ask the animal's advice, then pause to let the dog respond.	That's very interesting. I often ask my dog for advice, too. Sometimes, if I met something hard to say to my parents, I often say to my dog, and ask my dog for help. My dog is very clever. They might know when I was happy and when I was upset. I could get some comfort from my dog. If he know I was upset, he will sway his tail, his movements are very funny.
Some will ask the animal's advice, then pause to let the dog respond.	You have a chance to talk and talk, and you don't need to listen to your dog. You can throw out something in your mind. You don't need to care about how your dog feeling. You can talk good or bad thing to him or her.
Sandi instinctively felt that the challenge of helping the animal would give her son something other than his own pain to focus on.	Though there were no new words in this sentence, it took me a long time to understand. Sandi wanted the animal to help her son forget the pain from the accident. This sentence is a objective clause. "that . . . focus on" is object of the whole sentence.
Pets do marvelous things.	That's the thesis. The writer use a example to show people the strange and mysterious power of the pets. It's very important and very clever for start the article.
Jason Burns was just 3 1/2 when his parents divorced and his father left. Ever since, . . . handling responsibility well.	How sad Jason is. Some sorrowful things happened in his family when he was just a little child. And then, he still lived very happy. No more sad around him. If this for me, I guess I would got over for this situation. I have an example here about my elder brother show is my cousin. When he was 8 years old, his parents divorced and he lived with his mother. Then, he couldn't restore it, and end, he became a very weak person. Until now, he was still very shy and stayed at home all the time.
Pets make good therapists because they play the same role human therapists do.	I have never found that pets make good therapists. I fed cats, rabbits, many kinds of pets, and I fed a nice dog after I came Canada, but why didn't I find pets play the same role human therapists do? I think maybe I don't have psychology health problem at all. I'm confident, brave and believable. Ha Ha
The two of them blossomed.	I have looked up the word, blossom, in the dictionary. It means flower or flourished. I guess the reason why the author want to use this word here maybe he want to say what good friends Jason and Misty are.