A dialectical journal is like a conversation between you and the text. It’s a way to record the questions you want to find answers for in the text and your thoughts and observations about the text. Reread act 1, scene 2 of A Streetcar Named Desire, and analyze this scene in depth. Using the questions as a guide, record your analysis and textual evidence in the table. An example has been provided in the first row.

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.