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 – How the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill & Theodore Taylor III – & Indie Read
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – Expand a QW – build a thoughtful piece – due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox drafts no later than end of day tomorrow 11/8 (more in-class write time tomorrow)
WRITE TIME ⏰
📖 Indie Read
STUDY/READ: New novel – The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo to p. 45 (read in class with audio – see Mrs. C if you miss a day and need to borrow a book)
🖋️ Quickwrite #23: 3 Questions / 3 Predictions
PAST DUE: Writing #3 – Solo Soundtrack “Poetry” (posted on GClassroom) was due Sunday 11/5 (YESTERDAY)
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)
Netflix’s Dear White People, Season 1: Episode 5 (about 18 minutes in)
QW 26+ : Revisit your earlier quickwrite with new thoughts
Read Aloud – The Roots of Rap by Carole Boston Weatherford & Frank Morrison – & Indie Read
🖋️ Quickwrite #31: Big ?s about Book Club Novel – What surprised you? What’s worth talking about? What does this book have to teach me about how I should live my life?
STUDY/DISCUSSION: 🎯#3 Talk – Endgame (Big ?s) + talk built on table topics cards (or anything else pertaining to your book)
UPCOMING: Writing #3 – details tomorrow.
🎬 Book Trailers & Indie Read
WRITE TIME ⏰
DEADLINE: Writing #3 – Solo Soundtrack “Poetry” (posted on GClassroom) & time to select a track and get started with research and/or writing. Due no later than end of day Sunday 11/5
UPCOMING: New book next week – The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
🎬 Book Trailers
UPSIDE-DOWN:
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 Trailers
UPSIDE-DOWN:
DATA COLLECT: How do you choose what to read? When & where do you read? Share something you read – “magic” or “mid”?
REVISED DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Monday 11/6 (that’s ENDGAME)
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
🖋️ Quickwrite #22: Body Parts (choose one & expand)
ASSIGNMENT: Writing #3 – Solo Soundtrack “Poetry” (posted on GClassroom) & time to select a track and get started with research and/or writing. Due no later than end of day Sunday 11/5.
📖 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 😉
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