Today we had our first session (of three) in the Information Literacy course at COA with Professor Jane (there were handouts). Homework is to continue reading Chang. Write summary responses for each chapter; students will not have to post all the summaries; however, you will have writing for each chapter.
Prepare for a discussion --Chang, Wednesday, Sept. 17, in your Lit. Circle. We'll watch the Byron Hurt film, "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," Monday, Sept. 15, and then meet in L202E to write the essay response the following day. Students will use the article from, "Know What I Mean" and the film to respond to questions posted here next week. We will be practicing using signal phrases for in text citations. Read the section in Hacker on "Research," especially the section on paraphrase, summary, signal phrases, and works cited pages.
We will also practice citing sources in Works Cited pages. Students will be required to include in each short paper, 250 words minimum, 3 citations, including direct quote, paraphrase and a block quote.
Keep a lookout for information about a study hour. It's open to all Sabir composition students this semester. The sessions are held, unless specified otherwise, in the smaller Writing Lab (ESL).
EXTRA
Students are encouraged to bring in music illustrating the period discussed in Chang that week. Right now we're in Loop 1. We want to get through Change by early October. We will augment Chang with music and lyrics, along with other supplemental materials representing hip hop culture.
This semester our research will look at women in hip hop. Students will choose a woman in the industry, who lives in Northern California who uses hip hop culture as a tool for social justice. Of course, the writer will have to define "social justice," and then find evidence to support the thesis.
More on the research essay will be forthcoming.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 11:24 AM
10 Comments:
Ashley Dorsett
ENG 1A
For my object that represents Hip Hop and what happen with Hurricane Katrina I picked Jay-Z when he was in concert he rapped about how Bush ignored the people of that state and Having Obama as our president would be good because its a change. The link will say it better than me so its at youtube. the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViaMTuvebaU, Enjoy it. ;)
Ashley Dorsett
Ms. Sabir if you cant pull it up go to youtube.com and type in this Jay-Z says F Bush and Supports Barack- Heart of The City Tour. I know its alot but you will enjoy the little poem. See you on Monday
For my object, I found a rapper by the name of 33Jones who blogged about his experience of 9/11. His dad was on a flight coming out of New York that day and he thought that his dad was on flight 93 and he thought that he was dead for sure. He waited for 3 long hours before he got the news that his fathers flight had left ten minutes prior to that flight.
He also states that he feels that Jay-Z and Snoop disrespected the whole meaning of 9/11 by trying to drop their albums on that day just to increase their records.
I thought that this would be just some ole regular blog but as you read it it made alot of sense.
His site is 33jones.com/blogentry.asp?EID=627
If you can't find it like that then just google hip hop response to 9/11 and then you will see a link that says Rapper 33 jones Respect *my* fresh
Caprice Eddington
Ammnah Babikir
For my object, I brought in an article by a rapper called Ludacris. He did a song about Barak Obama that as a result brought on a lot of controversy surrounding his campaign and Position running for president.
To find this article, go to google and type in Ludacris Obamamania.
Khalid arghandiwal
English 1A
Object: song by 504 boyz "we on bounce back"
sorry people i didn't get to present my object in class. my object is a song lyrics from the 504 boyz about hurricane katrina called "we gon bounce back. you can look at the lyrics on this website below
allthelyrics.com
For my object, I brought a videoclip with a song named "The Storm" by Nightwalker. It was about the 911 event and what people thought about the government. The sorrow had been on people's faces for a long time. The wars and the terrible images had been spread through out the world. Why do they have to push people's to the edge?
Here's the link to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99iGMmWfDo
This is the website that I've first found the song:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=211730719
Here's Nightwalker's myspace:
http://myspace.com/nightwalker
This is one more website that is about 911:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=98576064
For my object, i brought in a song by Lil Wayne called Georgia Bush. In the song he expresses his feelings about hurricane Katrina and how he feels that it was caused by the president George Bush. He explains how they only showed the black people stealing on the news and how Bush took a long time to send people out there to help them. I really like this song.
For my object, I've decided on the song "We Can Work It Out" by Jurassic 5 feat. Dave Matthew, the music video explains it self. How this country is more focused on one man's well being instead of the others, and how blind he is, by the way things are.
Salvatore Castellano
Wow!What great examples of the hip hop communities' response to 9/11 and Katrina. Thanks for sharing.
For my object that represents the hip-hop community's response to 9/11 I showed the class a youtube video of the song "The Truth" by Immortal Technique ft. Mos Def. In the song Mos Def procliams "Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects. It was you nigga, tell the truth nigga." in reference to our president George W. Bush. As opposed to most post-9/11 hip-hop and r&b lyrics about stopping the violence, pseudo-patriotism, and americans coalescing after the trauma which they had suffered, these two artists chose to take a realistic stance by simply sharing facts about how the war in Iraq and Afghanistan were unjustified, unethical and have certain interest groups profitting from the continuing occupation and violence.
Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdagSIa-UQ8
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