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. 3
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.
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ReplyDeleteMalcom X (1965) insisted that his “books” were his “alma matter,” and that there was never a “free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man” (pg.1006).
ReplyDeleteBeing so intrigued by what he was learning Malcom X explains that: “I was so fascinated that I went on—I copied the dictionary’s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history.” (pg.1004).
Throughout the entire process of learning to read, and learning Malcom X’S (1965) “word-base broadened” and as a result he “ could for the first time pick a up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying” (pg.1002).
oops, didn't read the first direction, I though we had to come up with our own sentences, I'll just redo it.
ReplyDelete1. When reflecting on his prison-made education, Malcolm X stated that, "No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand" (p. 1003).
ReplyDelete2. While Malcolm X studied the teachings of Muhammad, he asserted: "When white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out" (p. 1003).
3. Education was something that Malcolm X held highly, claiming that, "If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosities" (X 1008).
MalcomX referred to his alma mater as being "books" and that if he didn't have a busy life he would " spend the rest of my life reading."
ReplyDeletePg.1008
Para. 44
While studying the unfortunate treatment of the blackcommunity MalcomX concluded : "Who in the world's history ever has played a worse "skin game" than the white man."
Pg.1007
Para. 38
MalconX was incredibly dedicated to expanding his knowledge stating that, " 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."
Pg. 1003
Para. 17
Malcolm X stated that people think he went to school well pass the eighth grade and credits this “impression” to his “prison studies.”
ReplyDeleteAfter much reading and studying and teachings from Mr. Muhammad Malcolm X concluded that history had been whiten: the “white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out.”
Malcolm wanted more than anything to be able to express his thought in letters that he got a dictionary and “copied into my tablet everything printed on the first page, down to the punctuation marks.”
Malcolm X concludes his passage by "expressing" his "love" for education, stating "If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."(Pg.1008)
ReplyDeleteMalcolm X was so surprised to learn about the terrible treatment of the black man, he states that: "I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a practical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests."(Pg. 1005)
Malcolm X insists that " Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened."(Pg.1002)
1. Malcom X stated that as his "word base broadened," he "could for the first time pick up a book and now begin to understand what the book was saying." (pg. 1002)
ReplyDelete2. About his ability to read and understand text, Malcom X stated that: "I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me." (pg. 1007)
3. In the essay "Learning to Read" by Malcom X, he contends "How is a black man going to get "civil rights' before he first wins his human rights?"
1. Little did Malcolm X know that a “number of well-read inmates” demonstrated an “intense interest in books” (1003).
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X had concluded that: most of the “popular debaters” were “be practically walking encyclopedias. They were almost celebrities” (1003).
3. Throughout the excerpt “Learning to Read” by Alex Haley, Malcolm X’s life in prison was revealed to the public; “Mr. Muhammad’s teachings” (X 1002) along with his “reading of books” (X 1002) had made him not even think “about being imprisoned” (X 1002); it was more of a freedom for him.
1. The reader can tell that reading was a great thing from Malcolm X because he "often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened" to him and he even states that "...reading had changed forever the course of my life" (1007).
ReplyDelete2. Malcolm X had explain: he sees his "ability to read" had awoken inside him "some long dormant craving to be mentally alive" (1007).
3. In the text "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X, he wanted to make clear that he "certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students" (X 1007).
- When Malcolm X was first improving his reading and writing skills, he copied pages from the dictionary, including "the punctuation marks." (1002)
ReplyDelete- Through his reading, he formed his opinion of the tyrannical white man, stating: "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation." (1005)
- In an autobiography of Malcolm X ghostwritten by Alex Haley (1965), X says that, when asked once about his alma mater, he replied, "books." (1007)
1. Malcolm X stated, When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten P.M. I would be outraged with the "lights out" (1002).
ReplyDelete2.Malcolm X's studies showed The teachings of Mr. Muhammad stressed how history had been "whitened": when white men had written history books, black man simply have struck me much harder. (1003)
3. In "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X, he made it clear that he "certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students" (Malcolm X 1007).
1.) Talking about how he would read using the light outside his room Malcolm X said “The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it” thus allowing him to continue his reading. (1003)
ReplyDelete2.) Malcolm X was always looking to help his civil rights movement, he explains by saying: “ You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”(1007)
3.) When talking about his time in prison Malcolm X talks about his experience with learning to read. He said, “As I see it today, the ablility to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” (1007)
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ReplyDeleteit says I got a zero on this when my blog is right above this one?
DeleteMalcolm talks about Mr. Muhamad's claim of history being "whitened".(1003)
ReplyDeleteMalcolm states that "the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopedia."(1002) when first learning how to read and write
Malcolm states at the end of the passage "Where else but in a prison could i have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day?"(1008)