Book recommendation video & Indie read.  “Lab” day for work on “rhetoric of rap” papers.  (There is a new MLA template in your shared Dropbox folder if you need it to get your paper started and/or to access Word online.)

Deadline:  A full draft of your rap “analysis” paper should be available to Mrs. C in Dropbox by classtime on Tuesday 10/10.

Book talk & Indie read.  Work on “rhetoric of rap” papers – song analysis, annotating, thinking rhetorically, writing, etc.

By TOMORROW you should have:

1. Determined it’s message
2. Annotated the lyrics using RLaW skills & “rapping deconstructed” analysis
3. Answered the questions on the BEFORE thought sheet

Be ready to WRITE!  Drafts of this paper are due in Dropbox (shared folder with Mrs. C) by class on Tuesday, October 10th.

Book talk & Indie read.  Notebook Writing:  Take notes on Rapping Deconstructed – vox.com video.  Work on annotation of rap song and/or BEFORE sheet questions on your chosen rap song. (On screen teacher-demo of annotation of lyrics – Mos Def “Mathematics”).

What now?

1. Determine a message for your song
2. Annotate the lyrics using RLaW skills
3. Answer the questions on the BEFORE thought sheet

 

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #11:  What is Privilege? – Buzzfeed Video & How Privileged Are You? Buzzfeed Quiz Video  The Rhetoric of Rap: read student-written example papers.  Handout:  Before you write thought sheet.

Rhetoric of Rap BEFORE

What now?  Take a look at your chosen rap song.

1. Determine it’s message
2. Annotate the lyrics using RLaW skills
3. Answer the questions on the BEFORE thought sheet

Deadline:  Be sure your “teacher-ready” draft of your notebook expansion paper is uploaded into Dropbox by end of school today.

Book trailers & Indie read.  Print outs for rap music selection.  Looking for rhetorical “moves” of rappers – example w/ Love the Way You Lie by Eminem.  1.  Look for message/purpose 2. Use read like a writer guide to annotate lyrics.

Deadlines:

• “Teacher-ready” essay (quickwrite or notebook expansion) due in shared Dropbox folder by end of school day Monday, Oct. 2!
• Work on your song annotation & message for next week.

Book talk & Indie read.  “Lab” day.

Choices & Priorities:

1. Finalize your paper (the QW/MB expansion we looked at in group on Monday). Make it teacher-ready, ensure it has a fitting title, and make sure it is in the Dropbox folder you share with Mrs. C by end of school day Monday.
2. Look for a rap song (must be “text-rich” and not entirely inappropriate) and bring it to class tomorrow.  Print it out or email Mrs. C to be printed.  We will be unraveling the “moves” rappers make.
3. Check out class blog entries on GCHSClassof’18Blog and see yourself in print.  Be sure to check out the links to secondary connections like songs, poems, and videos.

Deadlines:

• Rap song needed TOMORROW.
• “Teacher-ready” essay in Dropbox by end of school 10/2.

Banned books week video (ALA.org) & Indie read.  More scenes The Art of Rap:  Something from Nothing – Ice-T.

Tomorrow:  Work on “teacher-ready” version of your most recent essay (the one we read in group on Monday).

Upcoming:  Writing about rap – “How do they do that? The rhetorical moves rappers make.”  You’ll need a song to work with – start looking. ❤

Banned books week videos & Indie read.

Quickwrite #10:

• Trump: I wish NFL owners respected US flag (CNN)
• Jesse Ventura Salutes Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest!
• White America, It’s Time to Take a Knee – John Pavlovitz
• Kwame Alexander: Take a Knee

Intro scenes The Art of Rap:  Something from Nothing – Ice-T

 

Book talk & Indie read.  Writing groups – work on writing assignment (quickwrite/notebook expansion).  Group technique – bless, address, & press using “workshop tips ?” sheet.

Next steps:  Take a good look at your own paper now that you have feedback from others.  Reread it and consider the WORKSHOP TIPS and what changes you would make to improve it to a “teacher-ready” level.  We’ll work on them on Thursday in class.

Book talk. “Lab” day &/or Indie read.  Additional time for work on your essay and/or completing your pre-conference sheet.

pre-conf paper #1

Deadline:  Expand any quickwrite or notebook writing into a larger piece of writing.  (At least a page and a half, typed, double-spaced, MLA style*).  Upload this paper into our shared Dropbox folder for Monday (if you didn’t already)

*You can find a Word document with MLA formatting already in place in our shared Dropbox folder.  Open it and adapt as needed to type your paper.  When you re-save, change the document name to reflect your name and the assignment.