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Sometimes, I don't think I know myself well at all. I know my best friend as well as I know myself.

I think that you can know another person as well as you know yourself. Unfortunately, I am confined to this by the narrowness of my experience." (from the chapter "Economy") "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. It's important to make conscious choices, especially when you're my age. I think that you can go though your whole life asleep if you don't stop and think about what you're doing. "To be awake is to be alive." (from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Double-Entry Journal for Walden by Henry David Thoreau For example, the student could title the left column "Quotes" and the right column "Reflections." In this instance, the student would copy quotes from the text in the left column and reflect upon what they mean in the right column.īelow is an example of how a language arts teacher who is teaching Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, could use a double-entry journal. In the right column, students relate to or analyze the information that is written in the left column. In the left column, students write a piece of information from the text, such as a quotation or a concept, which students want to expand upon, understand better, or question. The double-entry journal is a two-column journal. Students can use a double-entry journal to help them study concepts or vocabulary, express opinions, justify an opinion using text, and understand or respond to the text they are reading.