Indie Read.

Quickwrite #23: “This is America” by Childish Gambino (a.k.a Donald Glover)

STUDY: Rhetoric of Rap – annotation preview, tips for choosing lyircs for analysis, research time.

DEADLINES:

• Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)
• Writing #6 – Part One: rap lyric annotation due no later than end of day Sunday 11/14

PAST DUE: Submission #2 (for teacher feedback) WAS due no later than end of day Sunday 11/7 (paper in Dropbox & audio in Flipgrid) MANY of these are missing!

Indie Read (extended) 🙂

STUDY: Art of Hip-Hop with a pre-view of the two-step assignment (now posted on GClassroom) & a look at the Quote/Cite, Explain, Extend/Connect cycle–helps you build a better paper from sources.

DEADLINES:

• Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)
• Writing #6 – Part One: rap lyric annotation due no later than end of day Sunday 11/14

PAST DUE: Submission #2 (for teacher feedback) due no later than end of day Sunday 11/7 YESTERDAY!! (paper in Dropbox & audio in Flipgrid)

Read Aloud: The Roots of Rap by Carole Boston Weatherford & Frank Morrison

Indie Read w/ padlet reading progress update.

STUDY: “Why Study Rhetoric? What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us About Writing” – Kyle D. Stedman https://writingcommons.org/article/why-we-study-rhetoric/

Hip-Hop preview… more on Monday.

DEADLINES:

• Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom).
• SUBMISSION #2 (for teacher feedback) due no later than end of day Sunday 11/7 (paper in Dropbox & audio in Flipgrid)

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #22: Your thoughts on the n-word

Watch these videos about/from Blackish season 2: ‘Blackish’ Cast Tackles Using the ‘N-Word’ in Season Premiere Dre Debates The Word at Work – Black-ish Dre & Bow Discuss The Word – Black-ish 

In-Class excerpt/scene from Dear White People Volume I: Chapter V

Revisit Quickwrite #22 with additional thoughts considering the videos we watched.

DEADLINES:

• Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom).
• SUBMISSION #2 (for teacher feedback) due no later than end of day Sunday 11/7 (paper in Dropbox & audio in Flipgrid)

Indie Read w/ reading rate calculation & “other” goal setting (not quantity).

STUDY: Rhetorical Analysis – A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729). Recap main points & use of appeals. Read through of a rhetorical analysis of this piece. Note how it points out not just content but the “moves” the writer makes in accomplishing his rhetorical goal.

DEADLINE: Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom).

Book Talk & Indie Read.

STUDY: Rhetorical Analysis – A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729). Read through and annotate the use of appeals in this infamous Irish satire.

DEADLINE: Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom).

Book Trailers & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #21: Fears – list 8 & then choose to expand into something . . . more

STUDY/REVIEW: Rhetorical Analysis – what is it?

ASSIGNMENT: Student-Led Book Talk preview & variable due dates assigned.

WRITE CLUB!!

Follow the Write Club procedures Bless, Address, & Press for each group member’s paper. Be sure to give feedback through MSWord in the margins (not just in discussion) that looks for what’s good = ), asks readerly questions ?, and makes suggestions in the form of “what if…” or “maybe try…” If you missed class, check the feedback your group members gave you and be sure to give them feedback too.

TO DO: Make any changes you wish to papers you’ve already written. Revision is always okay – we are constantly learning and observing new things that change the way we think (and write).

Read something awesome!

Read Aloud & Indie Read.

STUDY: “Why Is Being Scared So Fun?” TEd video

Quickwrite #20: What does Michael Jackson’s Thriller say about the thriller?

DEADLINE: Writing #5 – QW or MB (the “opposite” of what you wrote for draft #3) due no later than end of day Tuesday 10/26 (that’s TODAY!)

Be sure to be here for WRITE CLUB tomorrow!

Book Talk & Indie Read.

READ: “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King (1981) & “Afterword: TWD Vol. 2″ by Simon Pegg (2004) (If you missed class you can find these on today’s stream for GClassroom – you’ll need to print one out or get a copy when you return to class).

RLaW: Choose one of the two pieces and annotate it for Read Like a Writer, Big Moves/Small Moves, rhetorical appeals. Note how the author does what he does in the margins.

DEADLINE: Writing #5 – QW or MB (the “opposite” of what you wrote for draft #3) due no later than end of day Tuesday 10/26