This is true and we still use it to this day. It is good to do at times.

Sometimes we need to know wrong answers to get to the right answers and it's always good to learn from your mistakes.

This is true answers can have deeper meaning then what is actually said.

It's always good to ask questions to clarify things so it will be easier to understand and interpret.

We should be engaged in order to be on task and know what to do, it also helps improve what we are working on.

Always good to be open. To show how easy going we are and accept help and information given to us.

This is true quiet doesn't always mean peace. There are some things that can still be on our minds that we can't take off and will keep us thinking for a while.

I believe in quality over quantity and feel like this can be an opinion most of the time. It really depends on what we are talking about.

This part is useful, we should be able to be comforted and should have the right to feel better which can lead to better outcomes.

I think most people experience this when reading. It is important to learn new words in order to connect it to what we are reading making it sound more smooth as if there was no barrier when reading.

This is important when we read and annotate we should interpret what the author is trying to get across deeper and what his goals are and how that connects to what they have written.

This connects to engagement in active reading because in order to deeply understand we have to give our full attention and be actively engaged to catch everything in order to understand it better.

We need to continue to try in order to achieve what we want over and over until we achieve it.

You can understand better when you're really engaged into the reading as if it was like a hobby.

Like what we talked about in the first chapter, skimming is a good skill to have. It lets us know what we should expect in the next coming pages or chapter and what it's about.

Being defensive is sometimes good you just give your own opinion and see how it plays out.

He shouldn't be doing the work alone and searching for a way out. We should all help him together as a community, everyone counts.

When you are around your close ones you feel comfy and safe, but as soon as you go outside you never know what will happen, anything in the outside world can happen. It is a dangerous world we live in.

This is sad, nobody should feel this way and be afraid just because they look the same as someone else.

This is true, the younger generations now shorten their sentences by saying incomplete sentences, like when they play games and say "they mid" or in real life "ima get water". Where do they learn to speak like this or do they learn it themselves?

This basically means switching between 2 codes whenever needed.

I think this is true, everyone's English is different in a way and we shouldn't really focus on grammar since we can get our points across without fail anyways.

I think this sentence will confuse a lot of people. Since he used "gone" as "going to" when gone is already it's own word and use other words such as rite. This is very broad, but we have to ask ourselves and interpret why does he do this?

I think this paragraph is very important since it's almost or if not the introduction paragraph where he speaks freely and as I am reading this it's not perfect English, it's his English, and we all have different English.

I think most of the young generations tend to speak like this saying "tryin" or "cuz" just because it gets the point across faster and takes less time to say the whole word.

This is true most languages don't follow English rules, such as how they punctuate things or how they put some words in front of other words and when spoken out in English it sounds weird. Grammar is different in every language.

I think this is true, not all schools are the same that is why some schools might be better than others because they try their best to compete for the top while others might lack that motivation, but that can change.

Yes, we need this here in case we ever need help we can go to someone for it whether it be a professor, advisor, counselor, even friends.

This is true if you have a goal and want to achieve it, you'll tend to try harder than not really having a goal.

This is true I experienced this during my transition from middle school to high school. In middle school I was a really good student and got mostly A's, but when I transitioned into high school it's almost as if I lost all motivation to learn until speakers came up and gave us presentations on why it's important to do well in school.

This is true we learners are here to learn and improve and we need all the help we can get in order to succeed. In order for this to be possible the school needs to understand and really want to help us so that they could do everything they can in order to provide us with what we need.

This is true, college is like another step to becoming successful, in this case making a career out of what you learn throughout college.

This is good to know, so that I need more explanation and analysis than evidence. I can apply this to my essay.

Yes, I think I need to learn how to interpret the meaning better to make my explanation or get my point across better.

I didn't know that you should state your opinion on a topic sentence for TEA paragraphs so that's good to know. Next time I'll try to apply it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6daoUbRPQOo&ab_channel=JenReeves

To break it down there would be 3 steps Step 1: To introduce the quote Example: He states, " ." Step 2: Write quote Example: "_." - Step 3: Explain the quote Example: He is basically saying __.

Back then black folks didn't have the same rights as white folks an example of this is how Malcolm X had to self teach himself how to read and write in order to lead people and things have changed since then black folks now can get the same education as everybody, but most of the time they get treated differently so that relates to Malcolm X's time where they weren't treated equally.

pg.262 He talks about how he learned about his own people's history (slavery) by using his abilities to read and was shocked, if he hadn't learned how to read he wouldn't have gotten a hold of that information or he would've had to get it from someone else.

pg. 265 He talks about how reading opened up him and the ability to read awoke inside him meaning reading was something that was a dream of his and he finally reached his dream by having the ability to read and write as a black man. During his time it must've been hard for him, but he finally got there.

On page 265 he says, "I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life." And I can relate to this because I found out reading was critical starting in middle school because everything in books and and textbooks had deeper meaning and harder words to understand so I'm glad I learned how to read. Reading can relate to so many things even writing, you need to learn how to read in order to write.

I can relate to him because sometimes I wouldn't understand the sentence even though I know each and every single word, but it just doesn't add up and make sense sometimes and I would be frustrated.

Like "How To Tame a Wild Tongue", this article starts off with a background of the author and this can help us later on find some connections.

This is the exact same way my parents use to talk, but they gotten use to speaking English now since all I do is speak English at home now, but I also speak my own language sometimes.

She shouldn't be feeling ashamed because her mother knew at least some English, there are others who have parents that can only speak little to no English and it's harder for them.

Same with me my mom's and dad's English is clear to me, but to others it's a different story since my parents have accents or in other words broken English.

Yes, it's not perfect English, but the point still gets across. Just like how my parents sometimes would speak to me in "broken" English I would always understand and there would be only a slim chance that I wouldn't understand.

I feel like this is true not many Asian-Americans go into American literature and instead go into engineering. I can also relate to this since I'm going into Computer Science which is sort of like engineering, more on the side of computer engineering though. And I don't know about other Asians, but personally I like working with math.

I can relate to this as my parents weren't really born and raised here so their english isn't always perfect and they would speak like this sometimes.

I can relate to this because sometimes when I talk to my parents I do half Vietnamese and half English, but it's completely fine with them, and I also do it on purpose because I know that they don't know some words.

She even felt embarrassed to speak a differently language in front of others when she shouldn't be at all in front of anybody.

This is extremely racist and has lots of connections such as to the LGBTQ video where people are getting harassed because of their different ethnicity and being treated differently.

This is good it's almost like she is protesting, but it's really for herself and she holds her language as her pride and will work to get it done. This also relates to the people in the video who were protesting for rights such as for LGBTQ and black lives matter, the people also wanted change and in their case that was their pride in a sense.

Shows strong hate from teachers to her because she is trying to speak Spanish, every time she did anything related to Spanish she would get punished.

This the introduction, in this case it tells us the background of the author and this can be important because it can tell use what the author is like and how it may or may not relate to the rest of the article.

This is important we have to be engaged as if we loved the course because if we aren't engaged we won't be trying as hard as when we are engaged. When we are engaged we want to learn more like every thing is unique and fascinating.

This shows a lot of ways how we can jot down notes to use later on just like how we are annotating this section of the textbook right now. When we take notes we tend to memorize the things we write down more because when we write it down it also slows down how we read the words to write down and so it gets stuck in our heads. So writing notes is a good way to learn.

Yes, when something revolves around a person they usually tend to try harder because they need it. Say if you major in bio and take a computer class you are most likely not going try as hard as a student who majors in computer science.

This page is like the introduction page and tells you what you will be looking into and what it will try to help teach us so we can learn from it. It's talking about mindsets and how we should be ready to grow and learn.

Here we can see it's almost like a preview or breakdown of what we will be taking a look at in the chapter. It's like a table of content of a textbook/book. The bold words is like the chapter, but simplified in a few words.

I think a lot of people can relate to this, we all love to do these things, I assume and we also are here to work, read, learn, and understand life, not just in this class, but in general.

This shows that participation in this class is like every other class where you need to participate and that participation is key.

This shows that everybody can learn and help one another out.

This shows that you are willing to let us make up for the absence and what we missed out on by letting us write a prompt.