Directions: Perform exercise 3 on page 186 of Inquiry with the Malcolm X text, and write:
- One sentence that integrates a quote into the grammar of a sentence.
- One sentence that attaches a quote to a preceding sentence with a colon.
- One sentence that attaches a quote to a preceding sentence with an author tag (an author tag is where you give an author credit for his/her words--see LBH p. 644, Signal Phrases).
Due before class on Feb. 4
No reply will be necessary, but look at how your fellow students integrated their quotes. See what you think works and what does not, and use that to improve your own writing process.
No reply will be necessary, but look at how your fellow students integrated their quotes. See what you think works and what does not, and use that to improve your own writing process.
1. Malcolm X states "Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television or those who read what I have said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade", using self-motivation, during his prison studies, he managed to self-educate.
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X used a dictionary to teach himself how to articulate his thoughts: "Finally, just to start some kind of action, I began copying".
3. Malcolm X illustrates his passion for acquiring knowledge, when he says "Let me tell you something: from then until I left prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk" (1002).
1. Malcolm X states “I had commanded attention when I said something. But now, trying to write simple English, I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional”, he realized being educated is substantial to life.
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X started teaching himself how to be more articulate by using a dictionary: “I saw that the best thing I could do was to get hold of a dictionary-to study, to learn some words.”
3. Not only did Malcolm X teach himself to be more articulate, he even enjoys learning when he says, “I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library.”(1008)
1. page 1001, paragraph 2: Malcolm X asks " How would I sound writing in slang, the way i would say it, something such as "Look,daddy, let me pull your coat about a cat, Elijah Mohammad--"
ReplyDelete2. page 1002, paragraph 11: Malcolm X states"Let me tell you something: from then until I left the library, I was reading on my bunk"
3. page 1004, paragraph 25: Malcolm X states "(His words were: "White(i.e., bleached) human beings of North European origin...") Toynbee also referred to the European geographic area as only a peninsula of Asia.
1.Malcolm X states: "How would I sound writing in slang, the way I would say it, something such as, 'Look, daddy, let me pull your coat about a cat, Elijah Muhammad--" (X, 1001) Malcolm X would never understand anything he read, but that all changed when he started to educate himself.
ReplyDelete2. Using only a dictionary, Malcolm X taught himself how to understand his readings: "In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks." (X,1002)
3. Malcolm X teaches himself not only about where he was but other places, "I read how, entering India--half a billion deeply religious brown people--the British white man, by 1759, through promises, trickery and manipulations, controlled much of India through Great Britain's East India Company." (X,1005)
1. Malcolm X expresses, "My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America"(1007). Meaning that he no longer could be upset with how uneducated African Americans were because he once wasn't knowledgeable of his history until now that he just started to learn how to read, being that African Americans were once deprived of this right.
ReplyDelete2. Being young and uneducated entering prison Malcolm states, " I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote, especially those to Mr Elijah Muhammad"(1001).
3.Malcolm belittles the white race by stating," The world's most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man's hands, are almost impossible to believe"(1004).
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ReplyDelete1. According to Malcolm X, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe.”
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X states directly his purpose for starting his education: “It was because of my letters that I happen to stumble upon starting to acquire some kind of a homemade education.”
3. Malcolm X points out “In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college” (1008
1.Malcolm X says during his stay in prison, “Between Mr. Muhammad's teachings, my correspondence, my visitors – usually Ella and Reginald – and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.” Malcolm X explains how reading was a way to freeing his mind even if he was still stuck in prison.
ReplyDelete2.Malcolm X explains where he gained his inspiration to learn how to read: “Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to emulate him.”
3.Malcolm X gets into some of his books he stays up almost all night to read some of them, “Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glow into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it. So when 'lights out' came, I would sit on the floor where I could continue reading in that glow” (X,1003)
1. According to Malcolm X, " many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I've said, will think that I went to school far beyond the eighth grade" in all thanks to his time in prison reading.
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X stated that his push into the civil rights for minorities: I will never forget how shocked I was when I began reading about slavery's total horror
3. Malcolm. X states what reading has done for him "Mr. Muhammad, to whom I was writing daily, had no idea of what a new world had opened up to me through my efforts to document his teachings in books" (1007)
1. Malcolm X states, "look daddy, let me pull your coat about a cat" as he describes not being articulate.
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X had trouble with writing: "It was sad. I couldn't even write in a straight line."
3. After reading in the dictionary, Malcolm X comments on how proud he was of himself, "id written words that I never knew were in the world"(1002).
1. Malcolm X describes that "Books like the one by Frederick Olmstead opened my eyes to the horrors suffered when the slave was landed in the United States." (1004)
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X was very happy when he looks back on his first set of books: I can remember accurately the very first set of books that really impressed me. (1004)
3. Malcolm X admits, "I spent two days just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary's pages. (1002)
1. Malcolm X states, "But now, trying to write simple English, I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional”, making him realize that having an education was of importance.
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X discovered the art of self educating: "It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the Norfolk Prison Colony School"(1002).
3. After copying the dictionary word for word, Malcolm X's vocabulary broadened, making him very proud, he stated "I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying"(1002)