Today in class we listened to and watched the video recording of The Message. Afterwards, we looked at themes in the song and sketched an outline for a potential essay incorporating citations from Can't Stop, Won't Stop, and also lines from the song, into the outline as references.
The thesis sentences were really good! Please share here and list the names of the students in your group. Thanks!
I suggest students refresh their memories on Can't Stop. Keep a log for each section and/or chapter. You will turn in these logs when we finish the book.
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Kimberly Peterson
Here it goes... :-D
Although Grand Master Flash explains that he was living in a time while urban decay made him wonder how he could still live his life, Felicia Pride from a new generation felt like she could relate in "The Message," and it even made her raise above her situation.
Great start. I think you need a bit more to make it work. Here is a suggestion:
Grand Master Flash explains in the song: "The Message," that he is living in a time when urban decay makes him wonder how he can have a high quality of life. He says: "Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge. I'm trying not to lose my head....It's like a jungle sometimes. Makes me wonder how I keep from going under." Author, Felicia Pride takes this same song, which is a tale of survival in the oddest sense, and finds solace and strength in the tale of grief. She even names her book after the title: The Message (blah blah blah). It is a book of encouragement which takes it's cues from songs like Flash's. The fact that Grand Master Flash obviously didn't go under, gives Pride hope and the author hopes her book will encourage her audience too.
The last sentence is the thesis.
In the message by Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five he spits rhymes about the urban communities and how their falling apart. In the 1980's crack cocaine blanketed the african-american community's in New York people lost their families and their jobs to the addiction. For instance in the song he says.. ." Everywhere there are "people pissin' on the stairs/You know, they just don't care." And the future looks equally hopeless,
children crippled by a declining education where all the kids smoke,look up to the street dudes drivin big cars. Thus begins a brutal road that leads ultimately to prison, and death at an early age.
-Rashad Aiyewunmi
Benjamin Herrera
English 1B: (Tues/Thurs)
Professor Sabir
Thesis Statement:
In the song “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash he is basically telling a story about how the community he lived in was a total chaos, and how he was barely staying a float and not sinking with all the struggles he was going through at the time he wrote this song. Felicia Pride author of the book “The Message” got so much inspiration from Grandmaster Flash song that she decided to tell her story about how she used hip-hip music to get through hard times in her life.
Dominique West
For September 25, 2008
Urban decay among poor inner city youth communities has increased rapidly. In Grand Master Flash and Melly Mel's "The Message" they discuss how and why these communities are suffering.
Wendy Estrada
Grandmaster Flash- The Message
In class we listen to the message a song that I had listen to before but never paid much attention to. This song is basically a story that he is telling. It talks about all the stuff his going through and has gone through. He starts of by talking about his neighborhood how bad it is, but at the same time can’t leave it. and how he is trying to be strong and not letting go or losing his head while the struggle of surviving in a non wealthy place.
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