Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Cyber-Post Freewrite and Homework--Both Classes
This morning we listened to "Dear Mama," and discussed the themes, arguments, and evidence. We then looked at Chapter 1 and extended the conversation given the additional information in Holler.
In the afternoon class, after the library orientation we went upstairs to L-202E. Students listened or watched the video of the song: Dear Mama and then responded to it. Most students didn't finish so I told the class they could email the freewrite to themselves and post it later.
The afternoon class also completed four quizzes: two on MLA and two on sentence punctuation. We reviewed the grammar quizzes. Stephanie was so good at answering the questions! Tonight some students were going to try to make it to Laney for the SF Mime Troupe performance at 6:30 (music), 7:00 (show). Other students were interested in "Recess" at East Side Arts Alliance on Friday, Sept.18, 7 PM. East Side is at 2277 International Blvd., in Oakland, (510)533-6629. Visit my radio show to listen to the interview: http://www.wandaspicks.asmnetwork.org (Sept. 16, 2009 show).
We also continued to look at phrases and clauses in Holler. Homework is to identify 10 dependent or subordinate clauses and paraphrase 5 of the sentences (include the entire sentence).
Post the dependent clauses and paraphrases here. Also for homework, students are to continue doing the exercises in SPHE and start the templates for Essay 2.
Many students turned in their essays, but there are many mistakes, from the easy to spot MLA errors, to the more difficult grammar errors. A lot of errors came from students not reading the essay to themselves audibly. Many of you have to revise it. Turn in the best paper you can the first time. You will not have time to do multiple drafts.
In the afternoon class, after the library orientation we went upstairs to L-202E. Students listened or watched the video of the song: Dear Mama and then responded to it. Most students didn't finish so I told the class they could email the freewrite to themselves and post it later.
The afternoon class also completed four quizzes: two on MLA and two on sentence punctuation. We reviewed the grammar quizzes. Stephanie was so good at answering the questions! Tonight some students were going to try to make it to Laney for the SF Mime Troupe performance at 6:30 (music), 7:00 (show). Other students were interested in "Recess" at East Side Arts Alliance on Friday, Sept.18, 7 PM. East Side is at 2277 International Blvd., in Oakland, (510)533-6629. Visit my radio show to listen to the interview: http://www.wandaspicks.asmnetwork.org (Sept. 16, 2009 show).
We also continued to look at phrases and clauses in Holler. Homework is to identify 10 dependent or subordinate clauses and paraphrase 5 of the sentences (include the entire sentence).
Post the dependent clauses and paraphrases here. Also for homework, students are to continue doing the exercises in SPHE and start the templates for Essay 2.
Many students turned in their essays, but there are many mistakes, from the easy to spot MLA errors, to the more difficult grammar errors. A lot of errors came from students not reading the essay to themselves audibly. Many of you have to revise it. Turn in the best paper you can the first time. You will not have time to do multiple drafts.
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Mai Bee Lor
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
16 September 2009
Ten Subordinate Clauses
1.When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
Free paraphrase: Tupacs mother was with child soon after leaving prison.
2.After two of her male codefendants took flight, Afeni returned to jail to nurture her baby-“my embryo was in prison,” Tupac said years later in the taped prison interview-and to defend the New York 21 with an astonishing display of mother wit and oratorical skill. Free paraphrase: While Tupac was locked up, he told the public that his mother was in jail during her pregnancy with him.
3.When the infamous Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers’ strike flared in 1968-pitting United Federation Teachers, who were mostly white and Jewish, against poor black and Puerto Rican parents in the struggle for community control of schools-Alice was recruited to instruct because she was aunt to one of the children in the community.
Free paraphrase: Alice started teaching during the protest in 1968 against teachers in the ghetto.
4.After the Ku Klux Klan imposed a ten o’clock curfew on the black and Indian communities, the Indians soundly thrashed the Klan, liberating the blacks from their fear of white supremacy.
Free paraphrase: The Natives slowly chased away white power which freed blacks from potential harm.
5.Even though I’m only twelve years her junior, I feel, I suppose, the weight of her natural aristocracy and the immensity of her suffering and loss in her urgent inquiry.
Free paraphrase: I could feel and understand the sacrifices and tragedy that Afeni went through even when I am younger.
6.When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity.
7.If Afeni rates mother love now, it’s perhaps because she gave motherlove then.
8.If the struggle for black liberation had grown to openly embrace self-determining nationalists, sources of support had likewise enlarged to include the white left.
9.When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.
10.Although it has been reported that the family sometimes lived in shelters, Afeni demurs.
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
16 September 2009
Ten Subordinate Clauses
1.When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
Free paraphrase: Tupacs mother was with child soon after leaving prison.
2.After two of her male codefendants took flight, Afeni returned to jail to nurture her baby-“my embryo was in prison,” Tupac said years later in the taped prison interview-and to defend the New York 21 with an astonishing display of mother wit and oratorical skill. Free paraphrase: While Tupac was locked up, he told the public that his mother was in jail during her pregnancy with him.
3.When the infamous Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers’ strike flared in 1968-pitting United Federation Teachers, who were mostly white and Jewish, against poor black and Puerto Rican parents in the struggle for community control of schools-Alice was recruited to instruct because she was aunt to one of the children in the community.
Free paraphrase: Alice started teaching during the protest in 1968 against teachers in the ghetto.
4.After the Ku Klux Klan imposed a ten o’clock curfew on the black and Indian communities, the Indians soundly thrashed the Klan, liberating the blacks from their fear of white supremacy.
Free paraphrase: The Natives slowly chased away white power which freed blacks from potential harm.
5.Even though I’m only twelve years her junior, I feel, I suppose, the weight of her natural aristocracy and the immensity of her suffering and loss in her urgent inquiry.
Free paraphrase: I could feel and understand the sacrifices and tragedy that Afeni went through even when I am younger.
6.When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity.
7.If Afeni rates mother love now, it’s perhaps because she gave motherlove then.
8.If the struggle for black liberation had grown to openly embrace self-determining nationalists, sources of support had likewise enlarged to include the white left.
9.When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.
10.Although it has been reported that the family sometimes lived in shelters, Afeni demurs.
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nataliehopkins
free Write
201A 1:00pm-2:00pm
dear mama is a really good song written by tupac shakur. i like how expreses his feelings for his mom even though she had a struggle raiseing him
free Write
201A 1:00pm-2:00pm
dear mama is a really good song written by tupac shakur. i like how expreses his feelings for his mom even though she had a struggle raiseing him
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Jimmy Sengthavilay
Professor Sabir
English 201A
1:00-2:50pm
Free write “Dear Mama” By Tupac Shakur
In the song “Dear Mama” Tupac show great affection toward his mother through past events that really have great impact on his life, “When I was sick as a little kid To keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did And all my childhood memories Are full of all the sweet things you did for me”. Tupac had a close relationship with his mother because of the lack of a father figure in his life. I feel many people can deeply relate to this song and shed tears to their own experience.
Professor Sabir
English 201A
1:00-2:50pm
Free write “Dear Mama” By Tupac Shakur
In the song “Dear Mama” Tupac show great affection toward his mother through past events that really have great impact on his life, “When I was sick as a little kid To keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did And all my childhood memories Are full of all the sweet things you did for me”. Tupac had a close relationship with his mother because of the lack of a father figure in his life. I feel many people can deeply relate to this song and shed tears to their own experience.
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Julianne Bauer
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1-2:50
September 16, 2009
Freewrite:Dear Mamma
I liked how Tupac express his feelings for his mom in the song.
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1-2:50
September 16, 2009
Freewrite:Dear Mamma
I liked how Tupac express his feelings for his mom in the song.
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Cynthia Phan
Professor Sabir
English 210A 8-8:50am
September 16, 2009
10 dependent clause or subordinate clause and 5 paraphrase.
1) When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
Paraphrase: Following her release from prison, Afeni conceive a baby.
2) After, the ku Klux Klan imposed a ten o’ clock curfew on the black and Indians soundly thrashed the Klan, liberating blacks from their fear of white supremacy.
3) Afeni moved to New York when she was eleven.
Paraphrase: At a young age Afeni was moved to New York.
4) Afeni, like her son after her, attended a performing arts high school, attracted as Tupac would be to acting classes, which were the only ones she attended.
Paraphrase: Throughout Tupac’s school year his mother only went to one of his acting class.
5) Even though I’m only twelve years her junior, I feel, I suppose, the weight of her natural aristocracy and the immensity of her suffering and loss in her urgent inquiry.
6) When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity.
Paraphrase: Afeni has a different appearance being in jail for so long.
7) The scene conjures the generational gulf of an earlier era, when some blacks embraced quietism out of fear of white reprisal and fear for there dangerously uppity children, whose unruly speech and actions, their parents believed, would bring the warth of whit folk down on all of their heads.
8) Afeni’s significant role in determining the fate of the New York 21 was glimpsed when she was bailed out of jail after eleven months, an eerie foreshadowing of exact time her son would spend in prison for sexual abuse before he managed bail.
Paraphrase: Afeni played an important role in one of her member life. Tupac was going to be imprison during the time of his mother release from jail.
9) When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.
10) Moreover, it is clear that the high of crack appealed to those on the lowest spot on the economic totem pole.
Professor Sabir
English 210A 8-8:50am
September 16, 2009
10 dependent clause or subordinate clause and 5 paraphrase.
1) When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
Paraphrase: Following her release from prison, Afeni conceive a baby.
2) After, the ku Klux Klan imposed a ten o’ clock curfew on the black and Indians soundly thrashed the Klan, liberating blacks from their fear of white supremacy.
3) Afeni moved to New York when she was eleven.
Paraphrase: At a young age Afeni was moved to New York.
4) Afeni, like her son after her, attended a performing arts high school, attracted as Tupac would be to acting classes, which were the only ones she attended.
Paraphrase: Throughout Tupac’s school year his mother only went to one of his acting class.
5) Even though I’m only twelve years her junior, I feel, I suppose, the weight of her natural aristocracy and the immensity of her suffering and loss in her urgent inquiry.
6) When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity.
Paraphrase: Afeni has a different appearance being in jail for so long.
7) The scene conjures the generational gulf of an earlier era, when some blacks embraced quietism out of fear of white reprisal and fear for there dangerously uppity children, whose unruly speech and actions, their parents believed, would bring the warth of whit folk down on all of their heads.
8) Afeni’s significant role in determining the fate of the New York 21 was glimpsed when she was bailed out of jail after eleven months, an eerie foreshadowing of exact time her son would spend in prison for sexual abuse before he managed bail.
Paraphrase: Afeni played an important role in one of her member life. Tupac was going to be imprison during the time of his mother release from jail.
9) When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.
10) Moreover, it is clear that the high of crack appealed to those on the lowest spot on the economic totem pole.
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Arely Razo
Professor Sabir
English 201B
17 September 2009
“Tupac (antecedent) suggest that he (pronoun) is not alone in his adoration of his mother. P.21
In his (pronoun) elegiac “Dear Mama,” Tupac (antecedent) declares his love in a moment of unsparing criticism: “And even a crack fiend, Mama/ You always was a Black Queen, Mama.” P.23
First as Alice Faye Williams (antecedent), she (pronoun) was a twenty-one-year-old emergency substitute teacher caught up in the bitter racial politics of New York in the 1960’s. p.24
After two of her (pronoun) male codefendants took flight, Afeni (antecedent) returned to jail to nurture her (pronoun) baby- “my embryo was in prison,” Tupac (antecedent) said years later in the taped prison interview- and to defend the New York 21 with an astonishing display of mother wit and oratorical skill. P.24
“When she (pronoun) got out on bail, Afeni (antecedent) got pregnant, but not by Lumumba”. P.24
“When he mother (antecedent) came to visit Afeni (antecedent) in prison, she (pronoun) could barely acknowledge her daughters (pronoun) new identity.” P.28
Professor Sabir
English 201B
17 September 2009
“Tupac (antecedent) suggest that he (pronoun) is not alone in his adoration of his mother. P.21
In his (pronoun) elegiac “Dear Mama,” Tupac (antecedent) declares his love in a moment of unsparing criticism: “And even a crack fiend, Mama/ You always was a Black Queen, Mama.” P.23
First as Alice Faye Williams (antecedent), she (pronoun) was a twenty-one-year-old emergency substitute teacher caught up in the bitter racial politics of New York in the 1960’s. p.24
After two of her (pronoun) male codefendants took flight, Afeni (antecedent) returned to jail to nurture her (pronoun) baby- “my embryo was in prison,” Tupac (antecedent) said years later in the taped prison interview- and to defend the New York 21 with an astonishing display of mother wit and oratorical skill. P.24
“When she (pronoun) got out on bail, Afeni (antecedent) got pregnant, but not by Lumumba”. P.24
“When he mother (antecedent) came to visit Afeni (antecedent) in prison, she (pronoun) could barely acknowledge her daughters (pronoun) new identity.” P.28
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Chapter two
Five sentences, Dyson
1. First, as Alice Faye Williams, she was a twenty-one-year-old emergency substitute teacher caught up in the bitter racial politics of New York in the 1960s. (She is the third person objective pronoun; Alice Faye Williams is the antecedent.)
2. When she got on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba. (She is the third person subjective pronoun; and Afeni is the antecedent.)
3. Afeni’s family, including her mother, father, and sister, lived in Norfolk, Virginia, but she was born in Lumberton when her pregnant mother paid a visit to Afeni’s sick grandmother. (Her, she is the third person possessive pronoun; Afeni’s is the antecedent.)
4. When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity. (Her, is the pronoun; Afeni is the antecedent.)
5. Secure in the knowledge that her child would remain, Afeni discovered that she and codefendant Joan Bird would be returned to jail because two of their male comrades had skipped town. (Her, she and there is the pronoun; and Afeni is the antecedent.)
Five sentences, Dyson
1. First, as Alice Faye Williams, she was a twenty-one-year-old emergency substitute teacher caught up in the bitter racial politics of New York in the 1960s. (She is the third person objective pronoun; Alice Faye Williams is the antecedent.)
2. When she got on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba. (She is the third person subjective pronoun; and Afeni is the antecedent.)
3. Afeni’s family, including her mother, father, and sister, lived in Norfolk, Virginia, but she was born in Lumberton when her pregnant mother paid a visit to Afeni’s sick grandmother. (Her, she is the third person possessive pronoun; Afeni’s is the antecedent.)
4. When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity. (Her, is the pronoun; Afeni is the antecedent.)
5. Secure in the knowledge that her child would remain, Afeni discovered that she and codefendant Joan Bird would be returned to jail because two of their male comrades had skipped town. (Her, she and there is the pronoun; and Afeni is the antecedent.)
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Elizabeth Garcia
English 201A
8-9am
17 September 2009
Freewrite: Five sentences with pronouns and antecedents.
1-If the mother is central in black life, she is also made a scapegoat for social disintegration of black culture.(22)
•Pronoun: she (3rd person singular)
•Antecedent: mother
2-What kind of relationship did Tupac have with his mother and how did it shape his life and career?(23)
•Pronoun: his (3rd person singular possessive)
•Antecedent: Tupac
3-When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.(24)
•Pronoun: she (3rd person singular )
•Antecedent: Afeni
4-Afeni gave Tupac love as a growing child, but they suffered greatly.(31)
•Pronoun: They (3rd person plural personal)
•Antecedent: Afeni and Tupac
5-“I know what harm I brought him,” she says, “so really what I did was to prepare him to be able to live through harm.”(36)
•Pronoun: I (1st person personal)
•Antecedent: Afeni
English 201A
8-9am
17 September 2009
Freewrite: Five sentences with pronouns and antecedents.
1-If the mother is central in black life, she is also made a scapegoat for social disintegration of black culture.(22)
•Pronoun: she (3rd person singular)
•Antecedent: mother
2-What kind of relationship did Tupac have with his mother and how did it shape his life and career?(23)
•Pronoun: his (3rd person singular possessive)
•Antecedent: Tupac
3-When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.(24)
•Pronoun: she (3rd person singular )
•Antecedent: Afeni
4-Afeni gave Tupac love as a growing child, but they suffered greatly.(31)
•Pronoun: They (3rd person plural personal)
•Antecedent: Afeni and Tupac
5-“I know what harm I brought him,” she says, “so really what I did was to prepare him to be able to live through harm.”(36)
•Pronoun: I (1st person personal)
•Antecedent: Afeni
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Anthony George
09/17/09
Eng. 201a
8:00-8:50
Free-Write
1. She did her part in helping black military gain currency through forceful gestures of social rebellion.
- She is the personal pronoun which is singlular and the antecedent of she is Afeni Shakur.
2. Alice revoked her “slave name” and was reborn as Afeni Shakur
- Her is the possessive pronoun which is singular which indicates ownership ans the Antecedent of her is Afeni Shakur.
3. When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
- She is the personal pronounwhich is singular and the Antecedent for she is Afeni
4. “ On my mother side, my family went from slave to sharecropper to domestic worker to factory worker”.
- My is the possessive pronoun which is singular and the Antecedent is Tupac Shakur
5. She grew up under the Jim crow’s vicious wing, enduring racial epithets hurled at her by neighboring whites on North Carolina’s highway.
- She is the personal pronoun which is singular and the antecedent is Afeni Shakur
09/17/09
Eng. 201a
8:00-8:50
Free-Write
1. She did her part in helping black military gain currency through forceful gestures of social rebellion.
- She is the personal pronoun which is singlular and the antecedent of she is Afeni Shakur.
2. Alice revoked her “slave name” and was reborn as Afeni Shakur
- Her is the possessive pronoun which is singular which indicates ownership ans the Antecedent of her is Afeni Shakur.
3. When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
- She is the personal pronounwhich is singular and the Antecedent for she is Afeni
4. “ On my mother side, my family went from slave to sharecropper to domestic worker to factory worker”.
- My is the possessive pronoun which is singular and the Antecedent is Tupac Shakur
5. She grew up under the Jim crow’s vicious wing, enduring racial epithets hurled at her by neighboring whites on North Carolina’s highway.
- She is the personal pronoun which is singular and the antecedent is Afeni Shakur
Shakita Jamison
9-17-09
8-850am
1.) “When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.” Pg24
Pronoun: She 2nd person singular possesive
Antecedent: Afeni
2.) “In rarely seen interview videotaped when Tupac was imprisoned for sexual abuse in 1955, he speaks movingly of his mother.”pg21
Pronoun: He 2nd person singular
Antecedent: Tupac
3.) “When I went into jail again, my body had something to eat.” Pg30
Pronoun: I. 1st person singular
Antecedent: Afeni
4.) “[White Plains] is different from New York, and they put us in a hotel, and they gave us money to buy [things], and that’s ultimately what we used to leave New York.” Pg33
Pronoun: They 3rd person, Us 3rd person
Antecedent: White Plains, The employees
5.) “ Tupac’s maturity allows him to value his mother’s love even as he names her affliction” pg23
Pronoun: Him. 3rd person singular possessive
Antecedent: Afeni
9-17-09
8-850am
1.) “When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.” Pg24
Pronoun: She 2nd person singular possesive
Antecedent: Afeni
2.) “In rarely seen interview videotaped when Tupac was imprisoned for sexual abuse in 1955, he speaks movingly of his mother.”pg21
Pronoun: He 2nd person singular
Antecedent: Tupac
3.) “When I went into jail again, my body had something to eat.” Pg30
Pronoun: I. 1st person singular
Antecedent: Afeni
4.) “[White Plains] is different from New York, and they put us in a hotel, and they gave us money to buy [things], and that’s ultimately what we used to leave New York.” Pg33
Pronoun: They 3rd person, Us 3rd person
Antecedent: White Plains, The employees
5.) “ Tupac’s maturity allows him to value his mother’s love even as he names her affliction” pg23
Pronoun: Him. 3rd person singular possessive
Antecedent: Afeni
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Kevan Peabody
9/18/2009
English 201a
8-8.50
1. Alice was recruited to instruct because she was aunt to one of the children in the 2.community. She is the pronoun and Alice is the antecedent. She is third person and its possessive.
When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba. She is the pronoun and Afeni is the antecedent
3. Her sons legend has assured Afeni”s public adoration as a revolutionary – turned – mother. Her is the pronoun and Afeni is the antecedent.
4. Tupacs maturity allows him to value his mothers love in a moment of unsparing criticism: Tupac is the antecedent and him is the pronoun. Him is third person and its possessive. Page 23
9/18/2009
English 201a
8-8.50
1. Alice was recruited to instruct because she was aunt to one of the children in the 2.community. She is the pronoun and Alice is the antecedent. She is third person and its possessive.
When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba. She is the pronoun and Afeni is the antecedent
3. Her sons legend has assured Afeni”s public adoration as a revolutionary – turned – mother. Her is the pronoun and Afeni is the antecedent.
4. Tupacs maturity allows him to value his mothers love in a moment of unsparing criticism: Tupac is the antecedent and him is the pronoun. Him is third person and its possessive. Page 23
Casey Henneman
Ms. Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50 a.m.
Free Write- 5 sentences with a pronoun in it
1. “She did her part in helping black militancy gain currency through forceful gestures of social rebellion.” (pg. 24, Dear Mama)
- There are two personal pronouns in this sentence. “She” is the first pronoun and “her” is the second pronoun and they are both singular pronouns.
2. “She renamed him Tupac Amaru (he was born Lesane Parish Crooks), after an eighteenth-century Incan chief and revolutionary who was killed when Spanish conquistadors tore his body apart with horses.” (pg. 25, Dear Mama)
- There are three personal pronouns and one possessive pronoun in this sentence. “She” is a personal pronoun and “him” is another one and “he” is the last personal pronoun. “His” is a possessive pronoun because they tore “his” body apart giving the body ownership to him.
3. “Her father’s family boasted nurses and air force careers, although Afeni had no contact with them.” (pg. 26, Dear Mama)
- “Her” is a possessive pronoun. “Her father’s family” is a sense of ownership. “Them” is a personal pronoun because it’s talking about each individual.
4. “When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity.” (pg. 28, Dear Mama)
- There three pronouns in this piece. “Her” is a possessive pronoun showing that it is her mother. “She” is a personal pronoun and “her” is a possessive pronoun because it shows that it is her daughter.
5. “We went up to White Plains and a friend of ours got us into the White Plains homeless system.” (pg 33, Dear Mama)
- There are three pronouns in this sentence. “We” is a personal plural pronoun and “ours” is a possessive plural pronoun and “us” is a personal plural pronoun.
Ms. Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50 a.m.
Free Write- 5 sentences with a pronoun in it
1. “She did her part in helping black militancy gain currency through forceful gestures of social rebellion.” (pg. 24, Dear Mama)
- There are two personal pronouns in this sentence. “She” is the first pronoun and “her” is the second pronoun and they are both singular pronouns.
2. “She renamed him Tupac Amaru (he was born Lesane Parish Crooks), after an eighteenth-century Incan chief and revolutionary who was killed when Spanish conquistadors tore his body apart with horses.” (pg. 25, Dear Mama)
- There are three personal pronouns and one possessive pronoun in this sentence. “She” is a personal pronoun and “him” is another one and “he” is the last personal pronoun. “His” is a possessive pronoun because they tore “his” body apart giving the body ownership to him.
3. “Her father’s family boasted nurses and air force careers, although Afeni had no contact with them.” (pg. 26, Dear Mama)
- “Her” is a possessive pronoun. “Her father’s family” is a sense of ownership. “Them” is a personal pronoun because it’s talking about each individual.
4. “When her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughter’s new identity.” (pg. 28, Dear Mama)
- There three pronouns in this piece. “Her” is a possessive pronoun showing that it is her mother. “She” is a personal pronoun and “her” is a possessive pronoun because it shows that it is her daughter.
5. “We went up to White Plains and a friend of ours got us into the White Plains homeless system.” (pg 33, Dear Mama)
- There are three pronouns in this sentence. “We” is a personal plural pronoun and “ours” is a possessive plural pronoun and “us” is a personal plural pronoun.
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Mai Bee Lor
English 201A 8-8:50
Identifying 5 Pronoun and Antecedent sentences:
1.“No one emblematizes this truth more than Tupac Shakur, whose relationship to his mother, Afeni Shakur, was as devoted as it was turbulent.” pg. 21. Pronoun possessive 3rd person-his. Antecedent- Tupac Shakur.
2.“Bonds like Tupac’s tie to his mama run through black culture.” pg. 22. Pronoun possessive 3rd person-his. Antecedent-Tupac Shakur.
3.“When mama is also lover, she draws the wrath of her male peers.” pg. 23. Pronoun personal pronoun 3rd person-she; Pronoun possessive 3rd person-her. Antecedent-mama or Afeni Shakur.
4.“First, as Alice Faye Williams, she was a twenty-one-year-old emergency substitute teacher caught up in the bitter racial politics of New York in the 1960s.” pg. 24. Pronoun personal pronoun-she. Antecedent-Alice Faye Williams.
5.“But Afeni understood her mother’s plight, even shared it somehow, perhaps not as much then as she would when she confronted the prospect of seeing her revolutionary life in harsher terms through the eyes of her equally petulant son.” pg. 28. Pronoun personal 3rd person-she. Pronoun possessive 3rd person-her. Antecedent-Afeni Shakur.
English 201A 8-8:50
Identifying 5 Pronoun and Antecedent sentences:
1.“No one emblematizes this truth more than Tupac Shakur, whose relationship to his mother, Afeni Shakur, was as devoted as it was turbulent.” pg. 21. Pronoun possessive 3rd person-his. Antecedent- Tupac Shakur.
2.“Bonds like Tupac’s tie to his mama run through black culture.” pg. 22. Pronoun possessive 3rd person-his. Antecedent-Tupac Shakur.
3.“When mama is also lover, she draws the wrath of her male peers.” pg. 23. Pronoun personal pronoun 3rd person-she; Pronoun possessive 3rd person-her. Antecedent-mama or Afeni Shakur.
4.“First, as Alice Faye Williams, she was a twenty-one-year-old emergency substitute teacher caught up in the bitter racial politics of New York in the 1960s.” pg. 24. Pronoun personal pronoun-she. Antecedent-Alice Faye Williams.
5.“But Afeni understood her mother’s plight, even shared it somehow, perhaps not as much then as she would when she confronted the prospect of seeing her revolutionary life in harsher terms through the eyes of her equally petulant son.” pg. 28. Pronoun personal 3rd person-she. Pronoun possessive 3rd person-her. Antecedent-Afeni Shakur.
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Cynthia Phan
professor Sabir
english 201 a
8-8:50 am
Identify 5 sentences with pronoun and antecedent
1)Her son’s legend has assured Afeni’s public adoration as a revolutionary- turned-mother. Pg 25 possessive 3rd person Pronoun: her; Antecedent: Afeni.
2)Bonds like Tupac’s tie to his mama run through black culture.
Possessive 3rd person Pronoun: His; Antecedent: Tupac.
3)Tupac is surely unexceptional in this regard, but he represents an intriguing twist: He is capable of both embracing and chiding his mother in a single artistic gesture.
Possessive 3rd person Pronoun: He; antecedent: Tuapc.
4)“And as you know with [many] colored, poor women in south, there’s no husband, and it doesn’t matter. Pg 28
Singular Pronoun2nd person: you; antecedent: there’s
5)Her father’s family boasted nurses and air force careers, although Afeni has no contact with them. Pg 26
Possessive 3rd person pronoun: her antecedent : Afeni
professor Sabir
english 201 a
8-8:50 am
Identify 5 sentences with pronoun and antecedent
1)Her son’s legend has assured Afeni’s public adoration as a revolutionary- turned-mother. Pg 25 possessive 3rd person Pronoun: her; Antecedent: Afeni.
2)Bonds like Tupac’s tie to his mama run through black culture.
Possessive 3rd person Pronoun: His; Antecedent: Tupac.
3)Tupac is surely unexceptional in this regard, but he represents an intriguing twist: He is capable of both embracing and chiding his mother in a single artistic gesture.
Possessive 3rd person Pronoun: He; antecedent: Tuapc.
4)“And as you know with [many] colored, poor women in south, there’s no husband, and it doesn’t matter. Pg 28
Singular Pronoun2nd person: you; antecedent: there’s
5)Her father’s family boasted nurses and air force careers, although Afeni has no contact with them. Pg 26
Possessive 3rd person pronoun: her antecedent : Afeni
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Kevan Peabody
Ms. Sabir
201a
Subordinate clause and paraphrases
1. Subordinate clause: when her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughters new identity.
Free paraphrase: Afenis mom was not able to recognize her when she was in jail.
2. Subordinate clause: When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.
Free Paraphrase: Afeni wanted her sister to take care of her baby when she realized that she was going to prison.
3. Subordinate Clause: When mama is also lover, she draws the wrath of her male peers.
Free Paraphrase: Many men like Afeni because she is a lover.
Subordinate Clause: As tupacs godfather, Black panther Elmer “ Pratt remarks, the artist “was born into the movement”.
Free Paraphrase: Elmer Pratt said Tupac was burn in the revolution.
4. Subordinate Clause: As he won fame and money, he brooked no ideological limits on what he could say and how he could live.
Free Paraphrase: Tupac did and said what he wanted as he got more popular and more of a star.
5. Subordinate clause: As they touted anticapitalist beliefs, some of the party’s chief icons lived luxuriously, even dissolutely, at the expense of the proletarian rank and file.
Free Paraphrase: anticapitalist lived in good conditions and still hade their beliefs.
6. Subordinate clause: “ if they had too many toys they gave them away,” Afeni recalls, “and I was not rich.
Free paraphrase: When Afeni had more toys than needed for tupac, she let others kids have them.
7. Subordinate clause: If such practices appeared distasteful from a distance, up close they were downright ugly.
Free paraphrase :when something doesn’t look good from far away it looks more worse near it.
8. Subordinate clause: because he was a child who was there he knew what they did and what they didn’t do.
Free paraphrase: He was a kid that knew everything that went on and what didn’t go on.
9. Subordinate clause: when you talk about the pain that a child felt, especially when you realize that you cant change it, its hard,” she says.
Free paraphrase: When you realize the bad situations a kid has been through, and see that you cant reverse what happen, its difficult.
10. Subordinate clause: As the child of a panther, and second -generation revolutionary of sorts, tupac was all too familiar with the police.
Free paraphrase: tupac already knew about the police because he grew up having to deal with them.
Ms. Sabir
201a
Subordinate clause and paraphrases
1. Subordinate clause: when her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughters new identity.
Free paraphrase: Afenis mom was not able to recognize her when she was in jail.
2. Subordinate clause: When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.
Free Paraphrase: Afeni wanted her sister to take care of her baby when she realized that she was going to prison.
3. Subordinate Clause: When mama is also lover, she draws the wrath of her male peers.
Free Paraphrase: Many men like Afeni because she is a lover.
Subordinate Clause: As tupacs godfather, Black panther Elmer “ Pratt remarks, the artist “was born into the movement”.
Free Paraphrase: Elmer Pratt said Tupac was burn in the revolution.
4. Subordinate Clause: As he won fame and money, he brooked no ideological limits on what he could say and how he could live.
Free Paraphrase: Tupac did and said what he wanted as he got more popular and more of a star.
5. Subordinate clause: As they touted anticapitalist beliefs, some of the party’s chief icons lived luxuriously, even dissolutely, at the expense of the proletarian rank and file.
Free Paraphrase: anticapitalist lived in good conditions and still hade their beliefs.
6. Subordinate clause: “ if they had too many toys they gave them away,” Afeni recalls, “and I was not rich.
Free paraphrase: When Afeni had more toys than needed for tupac, she let others kids have them.
7. Subordinate clause: If such practices appeared distasteful from a distance, up close they were downright ugly.
Free paraphrase :when something doesn’t look good from far away it looks more worse near it.
8. Subordinate clause: because he was a child who was there he knew what they did and what they didn’t do.
Free paraphrase: He was a kid that knew everything that went on and what didn’t go on.
9. Subordinate clause: when you talk about the pain that a child felt, especially when you realize that you cant change it, its hard,” she says.
Free paraphrase: When you realize the bad situations a kid has been through, and see that you cant reverse what happen, its difficult.
10. Subordinate clause: As the child of a panther, and second -generation revolutionary of sorts, tupac was all too familiar with the police.
Free paraphrase: tupac already knew about the police because he grew up having to deal with them.
Rhonda Washington
English 201A
16 September, 2009
Freewrite: "Dear Mama" Song by Tupac Shakur
The song "Dear Mama" was very touching . I believe that Tupac was making his relationship with his mother clear to the world. That no matter how many ostacles they endured his love for Afeni was unconditional. Though they both made mistakes, that in
the end they forgave each other. I think that is the most important message "forgiveness". Appreciation is the greatest gift, and irreplacable.
English 201A
16 September, 2009
Freewrite: "Dear Mama" Song by Tupac Shakur
The song "Dear Mama" was very touching . I believe that Tupac was making his relationship with his mother clear to the world. That no matter how many ostacles they endured his love for Afeni was unconditional. Though they both made mistakes, that in
the end they forgave each other. I think that is the most important message "forgiveness". Appreciation is the greatest gift, and irreplacable.
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Rhonda Washington
English 201A
16 September, 2009
Freewrite: "Dear Mama" Song by Tupac Shakur
The song "Dear Mama" was very touching . I believe that Tupac was making his relationship with his mother clear to the world. That no matter how many ostacles they endured his love for Afeni was unconditional. Though they both made mistakes, that in
the end they forgave each other. I think that is the most important message "forgiveness". Appreciation is the greatest gift, and irreplacable.
English 201A
16 September, 2009
Freewrite: "Dear Mama" Song by Tupac Shakur
The song "Dear Mama" was very touching . I believe that Tupac was making his relationship with his mother clear to the world. That no matter how many ostacles they endured his love for Afeni was unconditional. Though they both made mistakes, that in
the end they forgave each other. I think that is the most important message "forgiveness". Appreciation is the greatest gift, and irreplacable.
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Rhonda Washington
English 201A MW 1-2:50p
16 September 2009
1.White Power, White Powder- the two were barely distinguishable.
-You could hardly set apart the difference between White Supremacy and Cocaine.
2.What a wonderful, wonderful spirit this child was right from the beginning.
-His life begun with astonishing qualities.
3.And from the start, Afeni's role in the movement was costly, limiting, in Tupac's mind, the time she spent with him.
-Tupac believed that Afeni's partaking in the black panther party strained their relationship.
4.But since it's not like that, then we're stone broke.
-We did not have any money.
5.Afeni believe's that Tupac saw contradictions, and " he did stand in judgement".
-Afeni thinks Tupac thought she was inconsistant.
6.We'd be rich.
7.And that made my hyper.
8.It's contagious, you know.
9.Tupac, however, had different ideas.
10.No!she gently mouths.
English 201A MW 1-2:50p
16 September 2009
1.White Power, White Powder- the two were barely distinguishable.
-You could hardly set apart the difference between White Supremacy and Cocaine.
2.What a wonderful, wonderful spirit this child was right from the beginning.
-His life begun with astonishing qualities.
3.And from the start, Afeni's role in the movement was costly, limiting, in Tupac's mind, the time she spent with him.
-Tupac believed that Afeni's partaking in the black panther party strained their relationship.
4.But since it's not like that, then we're stone broke.
-We did not have any money.
5.Afeni believe's that Tupac saw contradictions, and " he did stand in judgement".
-Afeni thinks Tupac thought she was inconsistant.
6.We'd be rich.
7.And that made my hyper.
8.It's contagious, you know.
9.Tupac, however, had different ideas.
10.No!she gently mouths.
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Gilbert Canlas
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1-2:50pm
20 September 2009
The song "Dear Mama" Tupac shows how important her mother was to his life, and he thanks her on this song. The love for his mother is in the song.
The appreciation Tupac showed to his mother, and for her being there for him since Tupac only got his mother with him.
This song couldn't only be about Tupac's mother, everyone could relate to it, and that's how I like the song.
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1-2:50pm
20 September 2009
The song "Dear Mama" Tupac shows how important her mother was to his life, and he thanks her on this song. The love for his mother is in the song.
The appreciation Tupac showed to his mother, and for her being there for him since Tupac only got his mother with him.
This song couldn't only be about Tupac's mother, everyone could relate to it, and that's how I like the song.
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Kathleen Adams
English 201 A
M-W 1-2:50
September 16, 2009
Free write
Tupac was very understanding, of the situation that he and his sister had to endure. He speaks candidly about his mother’s drug use. However, he cherished his mother and all of her flaws. He felt that they were poorer than others were. He was a little mischievous, and got into trouble like any typical teenager. Searching for a better way of life, Tupac began selling illegal drugs. He found a better way to support himself later, writing and rapping about what he went through as a child and teenager. He was a very courageous man that was not afraid to speak the truth.
English 201 A
M-W 1-2:50
September 16, 2009
Free write
Tupac was very understanding, of the situation that he and his sister had to endure. He speaks candidly about his mother’s drug use. However, he cherished his mother and all of her flaws. He felt that they were poorer than others were. He was a little mischievous, and got into trouble like any typical teenager. Searching for a better way of life, Tupac began selling illegal drugs. He found a better way to support himself later, writing and rapping about what he went through as a child and teenager. He was a very courageous man that was not afraid to speak the truth.
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Kelley Yuen
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1-250pm
Free write: “Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur
In the song, “Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur, it talks about how his childhood life was like growing up with his mother and a younger sister. Shakur and his mother had been through a lot, from where his mother had a drugs addiction to finding himself in this difficult world. No matter what happen he can always rely and expect his mother to be there and listen to him.
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1-250pm
Free write: “Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur
In the song, “Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur, it talks about how his childhood life was like growing up with his mother and a younger sister. Shakur and his mother had been through a lot, from where his mother had a drugs addiction to finding himself in this difficult world. No matter what happen he can always rely and expect his mother to be there and listen to him.
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Julianne Bauer
English 201B
MW 1-2:50
1)"My Moms is my homey"
My mom is good to me
2) "I saw Eldridge cleaver at Mt. Morris Park"
I have seen someone at Mt. Morris Park
3) "I was the first member of the new york 21 bailed out of Jail"
I was in New york and was the first person who got out of Jail
4) "The way mother brought me up is no lies"
My mother raised me right
5) "your mother is your pulse to the world"
My mom leads me to where I want to go.
English 201B
MW 1-2:50
1)"My Moms is my homey"
My mom is good to me
2) "I saw Eldridge cleaver at Mt. Morris Park"
I have seen someone at Mt. Morris Park
3) "I was the first member of the new york 21 bailed out of Jail"
I was in New york and was the first person who got out of Jail
4) "The way mother brought me up is no lies"
My mother raised me right
5) "your mother is your pulse to the world"
My mom leads me to where I want to go.
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: 5:22 PM
Arely Razo
Professor Sabir
English 201B
16 Sept. 2009
10 Subordinating Clauses and 10 Paraphrases
Original: As a baby she sang him lullabies, including songs by soul music icon Roberta Flack. P29
Afeni would put Tupac to sleep by singing to him, also by putting music when he was an infant.
Original: although it has been reported that the family sometimes lived in shelters, Afeni demurs. P29
It has been said that sometimes Tupacs family did not have a place to stay at so they stayed in homes.
Original: When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted. P30
Original: If you are paying the cable bill, buying disposable diapers for the baby, and stocking the food pantry, in patriarchal terms you are ìthe man.î P36
To many people to be the bread winner of the house has to be someone that can support their family financially.
Original: If something is going on wrong, then I know everything. P37
To know what is going on in the world is to know all.
Since Afeni would have to stay many years in prison she thought, she wanted her sibling to be in charge.
Original: Because there was no man over there, it was just madness. P40
Not having an adult man around made things difficult.
Original: Your mother is your pulse to the world. P41
It is because of ones mom that children are living or breathing in this world.
Original: If you cant go down in the garbage can and tell them about the garbage, how are they going to know where God brought you from? P42
Unless one has done wrong in life and canít talk about, then it isnít going to be know where one came from.
Original: Although Afeni has been in recovery for ten years, she candidly recalls believing, even naively expecting, that Tupac would immediately applaud her pilgrimage to enlightenment and health. P42
Afeni thinks that her son, Tupac, would be proud or happy that his mother has been trying to get better for almost a decade.
Original: ìAfter I had been in recovery for a year, I was very proud of myself,î Afeni recalls. P43
When Afeni had a year of being clean of drugs, she felt happy with herself.
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Professor Sabir
English 201B
16 Sept. 2009
10 Subordinating Clauses and 10 Paraphrases
Original: As a baby she sang him lullabies, including songs by soul music icon Roberta Flack. P29
Afeni would put Tupac to sleep by singing to him, also by putting music when he was an infant.
Original: although it has been reported that the family sometimes lived in shelters, Afeni demurs. P29
It has been said that sometimes Tupacs family did not have a place to stay at so they stayed in homes.
Original: When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted. P30
Original: If you are paying the cable bill, buying disposable diapers for the baby, and stocking the food pantry, in patriarchal terms you are ìthe man.î P36
To many people to be the bread winner of the house has to be someone that can support their family financially.
Original: If something is going on wrong, then I know everything. P37
To know what is going on in the world is to know all.
Since Afeni would have to stay many years in prison she thought, she wanted her sibling to be in charge.
Original: Because there was no man over there, it was just madness. P40
Not having an adult man around made things difficult.
Original: Your mother is your pulse to the world. P41
It is because of ones mom that children are living or breathing in this world.
Original: If you cant go down in the garbage can and tell them about the garbage, how are they going to know where God brought you from? P42
Unless one has done wrong in life and canít talk about, then it isnít going to be know where one came from.
Original: Although Afeni has been in recovery for ten years, she candidly recalls believing, even naively expecting, that Tupac would immediately applaud her pilgrimage to enlightenment and health. P42
Afeni thinks that her son, Tupac, would be proud or happy that his mother has been trying to get better for almost a decade.
Original: ìAfter I had been in recovery for a year, I was very proud of myself,î Afeni recalls. P43
When Afeni had a year of being clean of drugs, she felt happy with herself.
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