📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

WRITE CLUB: Extra session + share rap/hip-hop lyrics & annotation thoughts

PREVIEW/ASSIGNMENT: Hip-Hop/Rap Rhetorical Analysis draft due in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 11/15 (more details & examples next week)

SIGN-UPS/DEADLINE: Student Book Talks 11/13 to 12/15 🙂

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

WATCH: “Rapping Deconstructed: the best rhymers of all time” – vox.com

STUDY: Annotating your lyrics. Examples, listen, & brief talk-through. Find 2 examples in the class-shared folders in Dropbox.

ASSIGNMENT: Select lyrics (if you haven’t already – details yesterday) & try annotating them for class tomorrow 11/9.

SIGN-UPS/DEADLINE: Student Book Talks 11/13 to 12/15 🙂

Read Aloud – How the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill & Theodore Taylor III – & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #27: “This is America” by Childish Gambino

STUDY: Art of Hip-Hop – some background & assignment preview

ASSIGNMENT: Select Lyrics for analysis due sometime tomorrow 11/8 – Choose carefully.

SIGN-UPS/DEADLINE: Student Book Talks 11/13 to 12/15 🙂

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

🖋️ Quickwrite #26: N-word (your thoughts + reprise after videos)

STUDY: A look at how Blackish (ABC TV) & Dear White People (Netflix) address the n-word in television/streaming episodes + Tanehisi Coates interviewed on his book tour (watch videos below)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9g9g6y1rET4%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUQrwXdw1jw%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pQdCLZ7Enyo%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QO15S3WC9pg%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

Netflix’s Dear White People, Season 1: Episode 5 (about 18 minutes in)

QW 26+ : Revisit your earlier quickwrite with new thoughts

🎬 Book Trailers

UPSIDE-DOWN:

• Update What I’m Reading List & SIGN-IT board (how many books have you read?)
• Indie Read w/ Rate Calculation + reflection (thoughts, changes, new goals)

DATA COLLECT: How do you choose what to read? When & where do you read? Share something you read – “magic” or “mid”?

INTRO/ASSIGNMENT: Student Book Talks – sign ups next week (starts Nov. 13th) *2nd hour will see this Monday 11/6 (my mistake 🫢)

TO-DO: Keep reading! It makes you a better writer 😉

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: “Why Study Rhetoric? or, What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us about Writing” by Kyle D. Stedman on writingcommons.org (click to link to blogpost)

INTRO: Rhetoric of Rap – Why rap? Rappers you like . . .

TO-DO: Keep reading! It makes you a better writer 😉

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

Read Aloud & Indie Read

WATCH: “Why Is Being Scared So Fun?” TED video by Margee Kerr & Michael Jackson’s Thriller

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oetVvR5RQUs%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

🖋️ Quickwrite #25: What does MJ’s Thriller say about the thriller? (lyrics tape-in)

Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #24: Fears (list some & then expand on one)

STUDY: Practice Rhetorical Analysis — “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King OR “Afterword” by Simon Pegg from Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead Vol. 2

TO-DO: Read something . . . just because you want to.

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

WRITE CLUB! Bless, address, & press with your writing group. Working today on either a quickwrite expansion or memory book inspired paper.

TO-DO: Consider how your paper might change after comments and work with your group & read something awesome.

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Quick Look at the pitfalls of 5-paragraph formula – click link to read blogpost ⬇️

https://blog.heinemann.com/why-the-five-paragraph-essay-is-a-problem-now-and-later

WRITE TIME ⏰

DEADLINE: Writing #5 – quickwrite expansion or memory book chapter (the one you didn’t write last time) due end of day TODAY 10/26