I spent two days just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages. I’d never realized so many words existed! I didn’t know which words I needed to learn. Finally, just to start some kind of action, I began copying.
Him going through the dictionary helped him realized how many different words there were and how surprised he was when he didn't know of half of them. It can help you with your writing knowing better and stronger words.
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.
Reading really can help you with your writing.
I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I’d written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting.
It really helps when you're done writing to re read over what you have just wrote to see of you find any mistakes.
Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I’ve said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies.
This was the beginning of his writing and educational career so he was irritated because he couldn't express what he wanted to.
To use the interaction between the discourses of home and school construc- tively, I would have to have seen reading or writing as a process in which I worked my way towards a stance through a dialectical process of identification and division.
What she has used in school she can use what she learned in school outside of school.
I soon became quite fluent in this new lan- guage.
You can tell her story is basically why speaking English and other languages are so important to her.
. I became a much more eager student in my tutorials.
She didn't think learning english was important but she ended realizing that she needs to know it.
who was well versed in classic Chinese, kept losing good-paying jobs because he couldn't speak English
Knowing a lot of different languages can be very helpful. When you come into america only knowing your country's language, It's going to be hard keeping a job that kind of requires English. Knowing English coming in from a different area can be helpful and it's kind of important.
I began to take pride in my ability to speak it.
She takes pride in what she does. Her education and her ability to learn all these different languages was important to her.
rom early childhood, I had identified the differences between home and the outside world by the different languages
She's basically saying by learning different languages all around the world she's learned a lot about the world just by using different languages.
political persecution during the Cultural Revolu- tion.
This is part of the plot. She's telling you during what time period it was.
I am trying to save our lives
He is trying to save his entire cultural group and it's really amazing. He really puts it all into context.
I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I
This shows that this boy was really into reading. He tells where he read and when and why. He tells you why it's important.
Most lived up to those expectations inside the classroom but subverted them on the outside. They struggled with basic reading in school but could remember how to sing a few dozen powwow songs.
People expected them to be stupid and they lived up to that and those kids didn't really let them convince them that they were.
At the same time I was seeing the world in paragraphs, I also picked up that Superman comic book. Each panel, complete with picture, dialogue and narrative was a three-dimensional paragraph
He is comparing the world to his life now and how he see's it in paragraphs.
My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.
This shows the father being a good role model. If it wasn't for the father you never know if the son would've been into books.
When he had extra money, he bought new novels at supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms and living room.
This is showing that the dad really cared about books and if books were in there household with the children.
I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food
Trying to catch the audiences attention and telling about his life.
middle-class by reservation standards.
Tells you about his life.
The goal as you read like a writer is to locate what you believe are the most important writerly choices represented in the text—
As you read like a writer you learn more about how to write. You believe about what's important and what's not to put in the context.
How to Read Like a Writer79What Are Questions to Ask As You Are Reading?It is helpful to continue to ask yourself questions as you read like a writer. As you’re first learning to read in this new way, you may want to have a set of questions written or typed out in front of you that you can refer to while reading.
Asking yourself questions can really improve your writing.
You are already an author, and that means you have a built-in advan-tage when reading like a writer.
This is saying you already know how to write it's easy but when reading this essay it'll help you learn more about how to better your writing.
We read a recipe to learn how to bake lasagna. We read the sports page to see if our school won the game, Facebook to see who has commented on our status update, a history book to learn about the Vietnam War, and the syllabus to see when the next writing assignment is due
It's saying we basically read and learn all these things about how to do stuff like social media, recipes, ect. When we read essays about how to write or make your writing better it's supposed to help you learn how to do that.
You are reading to learn about writing
When you read more the more you learn about writing and how to spell things better if you didn't know and helps your grammar.