“Homemade Education,”

Malcolm X describes, in his essay “Homemade Education,” how his lack of understanding of many words found in books made him feel frustrated and how learning them empowered him by opening a new world for him.
In her essay “Spanish Lessons,” Christine Marin discusses how she came to find many of her voices, both Spanish and English, how they “contributed to the formation of self and identity,” and how she learned the different power of both languages.
You will:
Introduce, integrate and summarize the main ideas of at least two articles in your FIRST introductory paragraph that leads to your THESIS, which will be about how YOUR experience and the authors' experiences relate (no other outside sources are used).
DO NOT just have entire chunks of the essay as summary; it must integrated with your own experience.
Compare them with your own language experience, integrating references to the articles/authors INTO your ideas and thoughts using paraphrasing and quoting; be sure to correctly cite ALL references to the articles/authors using MLA in-text citations.
DO NOT use large, block quotes; use short or even partial quotes or paraphrasing instead.
What are the similarities and differences between their experiences and yours?