The main focus of the essay is the author’s journey to becoming literate. Who else goes through a similar “journey,” and what are the results? Provide at least three examples from the text to support your response. (Frederick Douglass Learning to read and write)
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Frederick Douglass Cyber-Assignment 1 Due by Sept. 2
In the English 1A 8-8:50 a.m. please post your response to two (2) of the discussion questions following the essay. Each response should be three (3) paragraphs (min.) Include two citations, one free paraphrase and one direct quote in each response.
Secondly, respond to one classmate's post.
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Mervin Deguzman7:55 PM
Mervin Deguzman
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
30 August 2013
Frederick Douglass Cyber Assignment
1.In the essay that Douglass written, he mentioned the different ways he had learn to read and write. He first learned his alphabet from his mistress and suddenly stopped teaching him because of the inequality of the people. Douglass was black and he was a slave; therefore, he was not to learn how to read or write. Although his mistress had stop teaching him, he started to look for different ways to learn. He then first tried to learn how to read.
Douglass had made friends with “little white boys whom I met in the street” (130). He then turned them into his own teachers. He had met them in different times at different places to aid him to learn how to read. He then learned how to read because of the boys. He then talked to the boys and say “you will be free when you become men. I on the other hand, will and forever shall be a slave” (131).
He learned how to write by being in Durgin and Bailey’s ship yard. He then saw the carpenters that gave him a piece of wood. The carpenters had told him what to write on it. Every single letter corresponds to each section of the ship. This is how he learned how write. From that point on, he kept teaching himself to write even more letters by copying Webster’s Spelling Book until he learned them all without copying it directly.
2.The main focus on this essay was about Douglass learning how to read and write. This essay wasn’t just about that. It was also about Douglass’ mistress, Mrs. Hugh. She on the other hand, learned something different. Something more deliberately cruel.
Mrs. Hugh was “a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear” (130). She was the one who first taught Douglass his alphabet but all that have come to a stop when she realized that they are not equal and soon became a “cold-hearted” she beast. “She finally became more violent than her husband” (130). It made her even angrier when she saw Douglass with a newspaper. She would rush into him with a piercing look in her eyes that says, “Don’t you dare read that”. She have come to a conclusion that education and slavery is not consistent with one another.
This was very hard for Douglass for his education had come to a halt but soon resumed when he found those boys in the street.
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Taylor Byias
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50
29 August 2013
Frederick Douglass Response Frederick Douglass Response
1. Frederick Douglass taught himself to read and write from his mistress, neighborhood children, the shipyard, and Mater Thomas’s copy book. His determination and eagerness to learn drove him to try any means necessary to read and write. “The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.” (130) By teaching him the alphabet, his mistress had awakened an eagerness to learn within him, and he wanted to learn everything.
The neighborhood children helped him by also teaching him to read. Whenever he went on errands, he finished it quickly so that he could be taught how to read. He also gave the children bread and payment sometimes.
The shipyard was his first experience writing. He learning methods were a bit unorthodox, as he learned abbreviations and shorthand used in the shipyard first. Then he practiced at home. When his young Master Thomas began school, he used Master Thomas’s copy book to practice writing also. His handwriting would look identical to his master's.
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