The Writing Topic on pp. 32-33 (Reading to Write handout) is homework. Students hadn't read the assignment. Don't get tired now, we're half way to the prize. Take your vitamins and get back in gear! Respond to one WT in a three paragraph essay. Utilize the text as evidence.
We previewed Chapter 8 using strategies listed on page 4 (Reading to Write). Some of the comments were that the chapter was about Tupac's body as canvas.
Students are not reading Hacker. You are held responsible for the information there. Read the first two chapters, The Writing Process and Document Design, The Basics, Grammar, Clarity, Punctuation, Mechanics.
We also read the lyrics to the song: "I Wonder If Heaven's Got a Ghetto." Students then went to the computers and watched the video. Respond to this song in a freewrite here. Some of the comments were the difference in tone. Latrice said he sounded angry. Jay said Tupac referenced topics and people he was not around to reference like Bush as president. The song seems to have been published after his death. Does this mean he didn't write it, or was it one of the many unpublished songs released posthumously?
We will meet in B-203 tomorrow. I plan to show you a film about an investigation into the murder of Tupac and Biggie.
Bring your Elements of Style book as well as the Dyson text. Students need to submit essay questions at the blog entry where indicated. You will be given your midterm next Thursday in class on the Dyson book.
We previewed Chapter 8 using strategies listed on page 4 (Reading to Write). Some of the comments were that the chapter was about Tupac's body as canvas.
Students are not reading Hacker. You are held responsible for the information there. Read the first two chapters, The Writing Process and Document Design, The Basics, Grammar, Clarity, Punctuation, Mechanics.
We also read the lyrics to the song: "I Wonder If Heaven's Got a Ghetto." Students then went to the computers and watched the video. Respond to this song in a freewrite here. Some of the comments were the difference in tone. Latrice said he sounded angry. Jay said Tupac referenced topics and people he was not around to reference like Bush as president. The song seems to have been published after his death. Does this mean he didn't write it, or was it one of the many unpublished songs released posthumously?
We will meet in B-203 tomorrow. I plan to show you a film about an investigation into the murder of Tupac and Biggie.
Bring your Elements of Style book as well as the Dyson text. Students need to submit essay questions at the blog entry where indicated. You will be given your midterm next Thursday in class on the Dyson book.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 12:03 PM
8 Comments:
Chantha Hack-Aguilar
English 1A
M-Th 11-12pm
October 16th, 2007
“I Wonder If Heaven’s Got A Ghetto” song by Tupac definitely sounded like he was angry with everything that was going on in his life. I guess you can say that it’s how he really felt inside or the truths were coming out. That also explains his many swearing words in the lyrics which sounded a little disturbing to the point where he say what he feels and might do what he feels. For example, when he said, “ I was raised, the little young nigga doing bad shit, talk much shit cus I never had shit…” actually started off in his song because Tupac felt that he needed to let the listeners know how he feels since the beginning of his time; it comes to the point where Tupac feels like he can say and do whatever he wants and can care less what others think. And sometimes you need to just let it out…
Zareth Benavides
English 1A
M-Th
october 17
Sometimes we mistake fear, and questioning for anger and bitterness. Yes 2pac is angry, but not in this song. I feel that his song “I WONDER IF HEAVEN GOT A GHETTO” is a form of 2pac analyzing his life as a poor black man, as a rapper, as a son but further more as a THUG.
His description of his child hood war begins where he says “Talk much s*** cause I never had s***/ I could remember being whupped in class/ And if I didn’t pass mama whupped my a**.” Shows that he has never been capable to forget that struggle, Dyson tells us of 2pac’s love for literature, love for education all together, but to Pac, it was always a struggle. Not only does Tupac reference his educational struggle, but the struggle to be able to forgive his father, and being forced by birth to take on the role of man of the house. “Was it my fault papa didn’t plan it out/ Broke out left me to be the man of the house” In a way he feels guilty for his father leaving his mother, at least that is what I derive. He continues to indirectly describe his life; from stating he couldn’t take on that role, if he wanted to take his mother out of the gutter, to selling “glocks” for g’s.
He expresses his fear in a way by asking if heaven’s got a place for him, if its got a ghetto. Pac’s reflection on whether or not if its got a ghetto can be seen as a look for comfort from this war, his war, the black mans war “its been goin on for years, there’s plenty more/ when they ask me, when will the violence cease? / WHEN YOUR TROOPS STOP SHOOTING N***** DOWN IN THE STREET.” Troops being cops killing black men, gangstaz killing ganstaz, and drugs. He knows that throughout history, the black community struggled to make life better for the black man. He’s a g: “I wanna be the way I have been practicing my whole life, is to be responsible for what I do, I don’t know how to be responsible for what every black male did, I don’t know, Yes! I’m gonna say that I’m a Thug, because I came from the gutter and I’m still here!”
All in all, he is annotating in a way, his life, and that of his lifestyle. Ranging from his childhood to his early adulthood, he closely analyzes truth then, and sadly truth now. Bush is still president through his son. There is still a war, and the streets are still “death row.” I believe that there is a ghetto in heaven, because heaven has a place for everyone, and it is what you make it. Only the lord can judge, and even if he was a thug, Pac has his home in heaven, his ghetto.
Tupac is angry in the song I Wonder If Heavens Got a Ghetto. The song starts off saying "he was a little young nigga doing bad S because he never had S”. Resentment from his childhood spills out violently throughout the song. In class I have learned that Tupac wrote all the time and I would bet that this song was written during the last chapter of his life.
He was like a canon ready to explode towards the end of his life. The softer side of his demeanor was gone. You could visibly see the changes in his music, videos and interviews. John Singleton said that after Tupac got out of jail “his energy for life had drastically changed. “The light that was in his eyes before prison wasn’t there” “He became what America thought a black hip artist should be, because he didn’t give a %$*^”. Tupac was tiered and whoever decided to release this song wanted us to know that.
I looked up the song on Wikapedia and it gives an explanation on why we thought that the lyric handout was the mixed up with the lyrics for Changes.In I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto, lyrics from "Changes" are featured in the third verse. 2Pac often wrote songs that remained unreleased when he was alive, and as such took liberties re-using lyrics.
Cited reading
Dyson, Eric Holler If You Hear Me page216
Wikapedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wonder_If_Heaven_Got_a_Ghetto
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