( “As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he-demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books.”) usually jail for a black man is served as cruel and …
Category: Unit 1
Reading Response Malcolm X–Asa
I suppose it was inevitable that as my word base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who had read a great deal …
Farhana aktar
Reading Response to Malcolm x
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me.i know right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life.As I see it today, the ability to …
Jaden Harrison
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Reading Response to Malcolm X — Raul Velasquez
“You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors… and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never …
Writing Task Mentor Quote — Lisa
“Lisa, you are a very good student. You can study anything–even if you don’t like it.”
I will always remember these words spoken to me by my father. These words were meant as a compliment but felt as a mixture …
Writing Task Mentor Quote — Your Name Here
Write two fully developed paragraphs, 6-7 sentences each (plus quotation of at least two sentences). Please reply to two fellow students’ posts. Have fun with this! Refer to:
- my example post by Lisa
- Leylah Fernandez (US Open Tennis Champ)’s words.
Reading Response Malcolm X– Dylan Ramirez
“When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night about ten P.M. I would be outraged with the “lights out.” It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing.’ (Paragraph 12)
“ Fortunately, right outside …
Reading Response Malcolm X — Fan
People who saw me on TV or heard about me often have a knowledgeable impression of me, all because of my prison studies. It all began in Charlestown Prison. I felt envious of Bimbi’s knowledge but my learning resource was …
Reading Response to Malcolm X-Amadou
…“Every time I catch a plane. I have with me a book that I want to read-and that’s a lot of books these days. If I weren’t out here everyday battling the white man, I could spend the rest of
