Name MODEL
CLAIM:
Text W.E.B Du Bois, "The Souls of Black Folk"
Du Bois discovered he was a “problem” at an early age.
Supporting Evidence
Supporting Evidence
“It is in the early days of rollicking
boyhood that the revelation first bursts
upon one”
(Reference: lines 10-11
CLAIM:
Supporting Evidence
“The exchange was merry, till one girl, a
tall newcomer, refused my card, -refused it peremptorily, with a glance.”
)
(Reference: lines 15-17
“it dawned upon me with a certain
suddenness that I was different from
the others”
)
(Reference: lines 17-18
)
Du Bois dealt with his exclusion from the other world differently from how other black boys did.
Supporting Evidence
Supporting Evidence
Supporting Evidence
“But they should not keep these prizes, I
said; some, all, I would wrest from
them.”
“With other black boys the strife was not
so fiercely sunny”
“their youth shrunk into tasteless
sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the
pale world about them and mocking
distrust of everything white; or wasted
itself in a bitter cry, Why did God make
me an outcast and a stranger in mine own
house?”
(Reference: lines 24-25
OD LL
DUCATION
)
(Reference: lines 26-27
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(Reference: lines 27-30
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MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED CLAIMS
Name MODEL
CLAIM:
Text W.E.B Du Bois, "The Souls of Black Folk"
Du Bois experiences being black as a “twoness.”
Supporting Evidence
Supporting Evidence
“One ever feels his twoness, -- an
American, a Negro”
(Reference: line 40
CLAIM:
Supporting Evidence
“this double-consciousness, this sense of
always looking at one's self through the
eyes of others, of measuring one's soul
by the tape of a world that looks on in
amused contempt and pity”
)
(Reference: lines 37-39
“two souls, two thoughts, two
unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals
in one dark body”
)
(Reference: lines 40-41
)
Du Bois sees similarities with the double-self of individual negros with the double-self of the
American Negros as a whole.
Supporting Evidence
Supporting Evidence
“The history of the American Negro is
the history of this strife, -- this longing
to attain self-conscious manhood, to
merge his double self into a better and
truer self.”
“He simply wishes to make it possible for
a man to be both a Negro and an
American, without being cursed and spit
upon by his fellows, without having the
doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his
face.”
(Reference: lines 43-44
OD LL
DUCATION
)
(Reference: lines 48-50
Supporting Evidence
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MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED CLAIMS