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Success-" I could for the first pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying."

My Ib word and quote link hand in hand because after taking the time to copy down the whole dictionary Malcom X can now pick up a book and begin to understand what the book is saying.

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"You could'nt have separated me from my books with a wedge"

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Developed

"It was because of my letters that I happen to stumble upon starting to acquire
some kind of home made education"

Because he developed a way of education

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Ib word: Choosing
Quote: "I needed to learn".
Why: because in the story there was a lot about choosing and this particular one was showing how he was choosing to learn and turn his life around.

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IB WORD: motivated

Quote:"Homemade education"

Because it is really hard to educate yourself in a prison while not knowing how to read English or write English and it connects because he was motivated by his situation he is in

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Bimbi made me feel so envious of his knowledge and how he took control of any conversation he was in

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IB: word success

I believe it took me a day but then a loud I read them back to myself

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Success
"I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words, immensely proud that I, had not only written that many words, but that I'd written words that I never knew were in the world"

This connects to success because he has learned things that he didn't know existed and has been successful with the drive and motivation that he had, using it to learn what he could.

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Success

"I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words- immensely proud to realize that not only had I not only written so much at one time, but I had written words I that I never knew were in the world."

The connection between the word and the quote is that he felt successful because he did something he has never done before.

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With every succeeding page I also learned of people and places and events from history that was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary it went a lot faster after so much practicehelped  me to pick up handwriting speed =D

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IB word: Resilient
" In my slow painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied on to my tablet everything printed on the first page, down to the punctuation marks. "

- This is resilient because he was so determined to write a letter to Elijah Muhammad that he copied every single word and punctuation in the dictionary so that he could learn proper English

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IB WORD:successes

"Finally the A's section had filled the whole tablet"

It is hard work to write that much words.

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IB word:success

"Many who today hear me  somewhere in person, or on television, or those who have read what I've said, will think i went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely on my prison studies"

I think it is connected to success because he did all this work in prison and it paid off because people think he is very smart because he studied writing a lot in prison

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Motivation

I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I'd written on the way tablet

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IB WORD:choose

"I saw that the best thing I could do was get a hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words."

Why: he was making a choice to try to learn how to wright and read. He wanted to change.

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Developed: "I spent two day s just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary's pages. I'd never realized so many words existed!"

It connected to developed because he was developing all the words in the dictionary and trying to develop the words in his brain.

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Add a quote from Malcolm X that connects with the IB WORD you chose.

Explain the connection.

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Motivate

"How would I sound writing in slang, the way I would it something such as, 'look, daddy let me pull your coat about a cat,' Elijah Muhammad--"

I think this showed motivation because of his improper grammar he was motivated to change his ways and self educate himself.

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IB word: success
"In my slow paintstalking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page"

This is a successful quote because not everyone would be willing to copy so many words and definitions on another piece of paper like Elijah Muhammad