APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers processed an autobiography.
Of course, we’re not done with The Autobiography of Malcolm X yet, juniors and seniors. I said from the beginning we’d cover between four and five chapters a week, so I’m too far off the mark for what I asked you to accomplish today. Much of the narrative has become tedious; while it was pretty exciting, I think, to read of Malcolm’s life growing up in Boston and Harlem, he tends to repeat himself after his conversion. I want you to focus on the details of his transformation: Today, I wanted you to consider how he’d changed from his days as Detroit Red to his station as Minister Malcolm X. We’ll talk more about this next class and decide how his worldview changed, too, and we’ll discuss next week how the Minister Malcolm then transformed into Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Here’s the embed of The Hate That Hate Produced, mentioned in chapter 14 of the book. It’s long but worth maybe spending some time with to contextualize the time.
Remember that your revisions and cover sheets of timed-writing 6 are due Monday by 3:30 pm.
- Writers must have conferred with me over their initial paper to submit a revision;
- Papers must be accompanied by a cover sheet detailing its writer’s revision process (under Class Materials)—no cop-outs;
- Papers must be typed and formatted according to MLA style guidelines (I mean it)—use the template (under Class Materials)—and should be no less than two and half pages and no more than three pages long;
- Cover sheets are to be attached to the revision, former on top of the latter, with one staple, horizontally, in the upper-left hand corner;
- Papers containing more than four obvious errors in conventions and usage for formal, written, academic English or that deviate from MLA style (including not embedding quotations) will lose 7% from the final grade (I have several style books you can reference.);
- Writers who did not confer with me over their initial drafts or who chose not to revise their essays must still submit a cover sheet, blank except for name, date, title, and initial score and “I choose not to revise timed-writing X” in number 4, signed;
- Revision scores will replace initial in-class scores if merited.
Don’t forget your article for next class.
See you then.