journal evidenced based analysis 3
The journal entry for each week should do the following:
Summary (1-2 paragraphs depending on the number of readings): Provide a comprehensive summary for each of the readings (primary and secondary). The summary should explain the main idea of the reading. This is your opportunity to focus your reading and begin to interpret the ideas we will engage in class discussion. If there is more than one reading for a given week, identify a theme that the readings share in common and articulate how the readings demonstrate that theme and/or support your assessment. Be sure to provide one or two quotations and/or excerpts from the readings that support your reflection.
EVIDENCED-BASED ANALYSIS: students will complete an analytical reflection in which they identify one idea for further exploration or research. The reflections should be approximately 500 words, written in complete sentences and properly formatted. Students must complete 4 analyses. If a student chooses to complete more than four, the instructor will choose the four highest grades among the submissions.
Each reflection should do the following:
(1) identify a common element or theme in two or more of the readings for the week
(2) explain where this element/theme occurs in each of the readings
(3) cite one passage or quotation from one of the readings that clearly provides evidence to support your claim that this element/theme is held in common. Use in-text citations with page numbers to document evidence.
(4) in your own words, reconnect the quotation cited to your main idea, making it clear why this quote or passage is good evidence to justify your claim
(5) repeat steps 3 and 4 for each reading you are examining
(6) despite the above commonality, briefly identify one fundamental difference in the way this element or theme emerges in the readings (such as the way a different historical or cultural context engenders a different emphasis on the theme)
1. This week, we are looking at writings from Ancient Greece. The first is Homer’s famous epic poem (ca. 750 B.C.E.) about the Greeks defeating Troy and the hero Odysseus’s long journey home after victory. You have a brief excerpt from the poem, but read the summary here before delving into the primary text excerpt https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-homers-odyssey-82911
Read Lines 1-31 of Homer’s The Odyssey, translated by Martin Hammond.Exerpt_The_Odyssey.pdf I have attached reading
2. The more recent reading by about 400 years (ca. 450 B.C.E.) is one of Sophocles’ three Theban plays: Antigone. libraries. https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/docs/SOPHOCLES_ANTIGONE_(AS08).PDFI have attached reading
