Class work for 2/7

Audre Lorde’s essay
In class assignment

“We were given special short wide notebooks to write in, with very widely spaced lines on yellow paper. They looked like my sister’s music notebooks. We were also given thick black crayons to write with. Now you don’t grow up fat, Black, nearly blind, and ambidextrous in a West Indian household, particularly my parents’ household, and survive without being or becoming fairly rigid fairly fast. And having been roundly spanked on several occasions for having made that mistake at home, I knew quite well that crayons were not what you wrote with, and music books were definitely not what you wrote in.”

“We were given special short wide notebooks to write in, with very widely spaced lines on yellow paper. They looked like my sister’s music notebooks. We were also given thick black crayons to write with.”

The yellow huge dress I received from my sister made me look wide. I was also given black high knee socks to match which made me look like a yellow jacket.

Malcolm X’s essay

“Available on the prison library’s shelves were books on just about every general subject. Much of the big private collection that Parkhurst had willed to the prison was still in crates and boxes in the back of the library—thousands of old books. Some of them looked ancient: covers faded; old-time parchment-looking binding. Parkhurst, I’ve mentioned, seemed to have been principally interested in history and religion. He had the money and the special interest to have a lot of books that you wouldn’t have in general circulation. Any college library would have been lucky to get that collection.”

“Available on the prison library’s shelves were books on just about every general subject. Much of the big private collection that Parkhurst had willed to the prison was still in crates and boxes in the back of the library—thousands of old books. Some of them looked ancient: covers faded; old-time parchment-looking binding.”

The liquor store had a huge collection of wines, beers, and spirits. It had a collection that filled the front of the store all the way to the back. They also had rare wine costing over $1000 locked and stowed away in cabinets.

Blog post about Jaime Escalante

Jaime Escalante’s perseverance for teaching math to troubled students made him famous. According to Biography.com, Escalante was born December 31, 1930 in La Paz, Bolivia. He came to America to pursue a better life and to become an educator here in the United States. Before he could teach in a classroom, Escalante needed to earn another college degree and learn to speak English. Jaime acquired a job at Garfield High School and teachers he worked with felt like the kids were helpless. Jaime believed that if he pushed the students to “live up to their potential” they will do well in school. He began to teach Calculus and challenged his students to take the advanced placement exam. His student’s test scores were deemed invalid and Escalante fought for his students saying that “students had been disqualified because they were Hispanic and from a poor school.” His dedication to help his students succeed paid off because after they retook the test, they all passed and proved to the testing company that their assumptions were wrong. Escalante received numerous accolades for his contributions to the field of education.

http://www.biography.com/people/jaime-escalante-189368