Thursday, September 17, 2009

 

Morning Class Free Write

Post your sentences (5) from chapter 2 in Holler here. The freewrite was to identify five pronouns in five separate sentences. Type the sentence and tell us about the pronoun: singular, plural, first perwson, second or third, possessive, object/subject.

Comments:
Matthew Young
Professor Sabir
16-9-09
English 201A-8-850
Dear Mama-Pronouns-Antecedent

1. “We went through [several] stages.-Pronoun-We-Antecedent-Tupac and Afeni Shakur-plural is we
2. As her sons influence has grown, so has her stature as a skilled adjudicator of competing images in his outsized mythology.-Pronouns-Her, His-Antecedent-Afeni Shakur and Tupac Shakur-His and her is singular possesive
3. She grew up under Jim Crows vicious wing, enduring racial epithets hurled at her by neighboring whites on North Carolina’s highways.-Pronounns-She, Her-Antecedent-Afeni Shakur’s Mother-She and her are singular
4. Her father’s family boasted nurses and air force careers, although Afeni had no contact with them.-Pronouns-Her, Fathers, them-Antecedent-Afeni Shakur’s father-Her is singular and them is plural possesive
5. “I was a street child.” Afeni admits. “I was more comfortable there.”-Pronoun-I, street child-Antecedent-Afeni Shakur-I is singular
 
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
 
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
 
Kevan Peabody
Ms. Sabir
8-9am

Pronouns and Antecedents
1.Tupac was especially wounded because he felt the party unjustly abandoned his mother at her most needy moments. The pronoun is he and the antecedent is Tupac. The pronoun he is personal and singular ,and its first person.
2 When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba. She is the pronoun and Afeni is the antecedent. The pronoun she is personal and singular. It is in first person.
3. Her sons legend has assured Afeni”s public adoration as a revolutionary – turned – mother. Her is the pronoun and Afeni is the antecedent. He pronoun her is singular and personal. It also is first person.
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.
5. Afeni shakur has become a cultural force in her own right. The pronoun is her and the antecedent is Afeni. The pronoun is personal and its singular. It is also in first person.
 
Rhonda Washington
English 201A
16 September, 2009

1.Tupac imbined his disdain for racial oppression from his mother's reveloutionary womb.(his-singular possessive pronoun,first person). 2.Tupac intalially embraced the former view, though he quickly wearied of the aesthetic and economic imperatives it imposed.(he-singular personal,first person and it-singular personal,second object. 3.I did'nt have much choice, I guess, "he homorously concluded. ( I and he are both singular possessive pronoun's, first person). 4.Afeni and her lovers Lumamba and Billy Garland were Black Panthers.(her-singular personal, first person). 5.My mother was a Black Panther and she was really involvedin the movement,"Tupac says". (my and she are both singular personal pronouns, first person).
 
Rhonda Washington
English 201A
16 September, 2009

1.Tupac imbined his disdain for racial oppression from his mother's reveloutionary womb.(his-singular possessive pronoun,first person).
2.Tupac intalially embraced the former view, though he quickly wearied of the aesthetic and economic imperatives it imposed.(he-singular personal,first person and it-singular personal,second object.
3.I did'nt have much choice, I guess, "he homorously concluded. ( I and he are both singular possessive pronoun's, first person).
4.Afeni and her lovers Lumamba and Billy Garland were Black Panthers.(her-singular personal, first person).
5.My mother was a Black Panther and she was really involvedin the movement,"Tupac says". (my and she are both singular personal pronouns, first person).

11:47 AM
 
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.
 
Amin Ahmed
Profesor Wanda Sabir
English 201B 8-9
09/20/2009
Holler Chapter 2-Antecedent/ pronouns

1. “ That birthright of black nationalism hung over Tupac’s head as both promise and judgments. Some saw him as the benighted successor to Huey, Eldridge, Bobby, and other bright stars of black subversion” (48).
Antecedent: Tupac. Pronoun: him, singular first type pronoun.

2. “ In explaining his ministerial vocation, Martin Luther King Jr. remarked that his father, grandfather, great grandfather were preachers” (49).
Antecedent: Martin Luther King Jr. Pronoun: his, singular second type pronoun.

3. “Tupac revolutionary sensibilities even shaped his inclination to protest injustice wit grand gestures” (51).
Antecedent: Tupac. Pronoun: his, singular second type pronoun.

4. “As it turns out, this story is vintage Tupac: glossing his personal story as reflection of social injustice; showing an impeccable sense of vocational priority” (52).
Antecedents: Tupac’s story. Pronoun: it, singular first type pronoun.
Antecedent: Tupac. Pronoun: his, singular second type pronoun.

5. “ Tupac claims his family movrd from New York “ because of my mother’s [political] choices. And she couldn’t keep her job because of her choices, because it was too much… They figured out who she was and she couldn’t keep a job” (53).
Antecedent: Tupac. Pronoun: his, singular second type pronoun.
Antecedent: Tupac. Pronoun: my, singular first type pronoun.
Antecedent: Tupac’s mama, Afeni. Pronoun: she, singular first type pronoun.
Antecedent: Afeni. Pronoun: her, singular second type pronoun.
Antecedent: Afeni’s employers. Pronoun: they, plural first type pronoun.
 
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
 
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.
 
Earnest Davis
Professor Sabir
English 201A

Holler If You Hear Me: Pronouns/Antecedent

1. "Serving as her own lawyer turned out to be Afeni's saving grace".
-Pronoun:Her -Antecedent:Afeni
2. Afeni gave tupac love as a growing child, but they suffered greatly.
-Pronoun:They -Antecedent:Tupac/Afeni
3. But when the family went to the White Plains,New York, they got public help.
-Pronoun:They -Antecedent:Family
4. When she got out on bail, Afeni got pregnant, but not by Lumumba.
-Pronoun:She -Antecedent:Afeni
5. Her son's legend has assured Afeni's public adoration as a revolutionary-turned-mother.
-Pronoun:Her -Antecedent:Afeni
 
1) Your my mother, and she was like you're my son. (Pronoun is Like)

2) In the haunting footage of Tupac at school at age seventeen, he conffrims Pratt's impression. (Pronoun Tupac)

3) Afeni remember her children inherited her sacrificial sprit. (Pronoun her and children)

4) He had a chain with a rust-covered gun on it, and I said You cn't take that on the plane. (Pronoun is gun and plane)

5) Crouch argues that thug rap embraces the Godfather as its bible. (pronoun is Godfather and bible.)
 
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