One of the things Malcolm X discovered as he read more and more was the way literature was curated and cherry-picked for educational purposes, thus effectively erasing entire swaths of history and thinking. Do you think this still goes on today? What gaps do you think were present in your education? What things do you wish school would teach everyone that they didn't in your experience? What do you think motivates people to erase or downplay certain cultures as educators?

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man