Use your journal as though you were on location in the regions under review in the assigned chapter. Discuss what you find interesting (or confusing or infuriating or disgusting or boring), what seems strange or familiar, and of course how the content over time can be drawn together to form a ‘bigger picture.’
The journals, as the name implies, can be formatted like a traditional journal entry (a ‘Dear Diary’ sort of thing), or get creative and structure it like the options found here: *news article *film script *grant proposal *pen pal *notes (if truly stuck)
Each journal should aim to be 350-500 words