Name: Manpreet Kaur Cheema
Date: Feb./8/2017
Outlining, annotating, summarizing, previewing, questioning to understand and remember, figurative, language and synthesizing.
1. In class we learned about the new vocabulary and this essay was related to the film we watched in the first week of class. This had the following themes/topics:- motivation, faith, discrimination, challenges, discipline and etc. in this essay we also learned about the ethos, pathos, and logos. This essay may be about the topics of motivation and challenges.
2. The author of this essay is Malcolm X and his areas of expertise are he was the disciple of the Elijah Mohammad, and emerged for the black separation and for their civil rights. And all these thoughts make him …show more content…
A) what does writer mean in paragraph 6? In this paragraph author tell us that he wrote many letters to the governors but they never respond him. And may be in those letters he wrote about the conditions of the black people and who is responsible for all that. B) How many years author spend in prison and what he learned in the prison? Author spend seven years in the prison and he learned lots of things for example he taught himself in prison and wrote letters to well known people. He never got response of single letter but he did not lose his confidence. As we read in essay that he was happy and spend truly free life even he was imprisoned.
C) What were the main topics or themes were in the essay? In this essay we read about the power of writing, speak out and fight for your rights, to be self dependent and self confident. Moreover, we also learned about the motivation, face challenges, faith, true freedom and etc.
8. Main Ideas:- The main ideas in this essay were motivation, faith, bravery, discipline; challenges speak out for your civil right as author was doing efforts for the black people’s civil rights. However, we also read about the power of writing and confidence