How does the speaker develop the central idea that reading impacted Malcolm X’s life in a
positive way?
{SENTENCE ONE: Your topic sentence where you answer the prompt}
{SENTENCE TWO: You need to add a little more detail and explain what you mean
in the topic sentence.} {SENTENCE THREE: You need to give a little information
about the textual evidence you will be using.} {SENTENCE FOUR: You need to
have a QUOTE LEAD-IN that introduces textual evidence and then your evidence}.
{SENTENCES FOUR-FIVE: You need to explain how this quote PROVES your topic
sentence.}
Malcolm X develops his central idea that education positively impacted his life through
his use of ethos. Throughout this excerpt, he discusses his personal struggles with education
and his ideas being heard. These experiences helped shape his view that education provides
freedom in a time period that restricted his rights. This is illustrated when Malcolm X explains
how his “homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more
sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in
America” (4). In learning how to read, Malcolm X was no longer deaf, or dumb, or blind like
many of his peers. He was then able to use his knowledge to positively impact the lives of those
around him.
Malcolm X develops his central idea that __________________ ___ through the use of
____________(rhetoric). Throughout this excerpt he discusses _________________ (Idea 1)
This is illustrated by ________________ (insert quote here). Here, he emphasizes the point that
________. Malcolm X believed that the knowledge he gained
______________________________.
(S) How is the central idea of [...] in Malcolm X’s life and journey developed using ethos?
(CP) How is the central idea that __________ developed?