Use the ‘quote sandwich’ model of presenting information to compare one point from the open “Letter From the Clergy to MLK”, to a related point from “Letter From Birmingham Jail”.
Refer to the Quote Sandwich Explanation/Demo link here:
https://prezi.com/czt0cxpnv-uv/quote-sandwich/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
and They Say/ I Say, chapter three (The Art of Quoting). Here is a link to the chapter, if you don’t have the textbook yet; the reading starts with Chapter 2, so you can skip to Chapter 3: They Say Chaps 2 and 3.pdf
For this exercise, you will need: a) the passage you are quoting from “Letter From the Clergy”, b) the passage you are quoting from “Letter From Birmingham Jail”.
You are going to connect the example you picked from LFBJ to the example from the other source, as if you were writing a research paper about LFBJ. (Don’t worry- you’re not actually writing that paper!)
Here’s what this comparison (really, two quote sandwiches) should look like:
Sandwich 1 (write this up as one paragraph):
Introduce a point from “Letter From the Clergy” (give us some context- who are the authors, and what are they saying to King? what do they want him to do/not do? what are they worried about?)
give quote (in quotation marks) from clergy’s letter, and cite it (see below)
explain this quote – (paraphrase it)
Sandwich 2 (write this up as a separate paragraph):
introduce a related point from “Letter From Birmingham Jail” – (give us context- who is the author? what is he responding to, or what motivated him to write these words at that time?)
give quote (in quotation marks) from LFBJ, and cite it (see below)
explain this quote – (paraphrase it); show your reader directly how this quote connects/relates to the quote from the clergy’s letter
