Reading Log



AP English Language and Composition

Sample Reading Log

Log # __1____ Chpt(s). 1 Pages 2 – 26

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|1. “First Lt. Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha…They were|1. I think it’s interesting to start out a book about war with the soldier |

|not love letters, but Lt. Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic|carrying letters he hopes will become love letters. Conflict in war, |

|at the bottom of his rucksack” (2). |conflict in love? |

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|2. ”They carried USO stationery and pencils and pens. They carried Sterno, | |

|safety pins, trip flares, signal flares, spools of wire, chewing tobacco, |2. I wonder what “joss sticks” are. Cool word though. I like how in this |

|liberated joss sticks and statuettes of the smiling Buddha, candles grease |long description, the idea of what they carried changes from the kinds of |

|pencils, The Stars and Stripes, fingernail clippers, Psy Ops leaflets, bush |things you’d expect them to have like all the objects, but then goes to |

|hats, bolos, and much more…They carried diseases…They carried the sky…They |things they don’t physically carry but what they carry emotionally. I really|

|carried their own lives” (14-16). |like “They carried the sky.” I’m not quite sure exactly what it means. |

| |Maybe it’s like hope, or the possibilities of the future. Or maybe it’s just|

| |the weather and how that would affect them. But I like the hope idea better.|

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|3. “He felt shame. He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men,|I understand his grief and shame at one level—he feels responsible for not |

|and as as consequence, Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would|being more vigilant. But I think he’s being way too hard on himself. He’s |

|have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war” (25). |only human, and people die in wars all the time. He can’t be 100% attentive |

| |every second of the day! |

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|Overall/The book so far |

|This is an intriguing book. It’s raising lots of questions: I wonder if Jimmy and Martha will get together? I hope there will be more on this romance! I|

|hope it will be a romance! I wonder if the death of Lavender will keep affecting Lt. Cross. I’m guessing it will. I think this book will be very |

|powerful. I really like the list of what they carried. I think we’ll find out more about some of these things are we go. I’m wondering too how graphic |

|and disturbing the violence will be. It’s a war book. I’m sure it has to get pretty bad. |

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