Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, November 14th

Student Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Rap Analysis Assignment Intro & Example, Quote Explain Connect Cycle & Tips for quoting source material

PAST DUE:

  • Submission #2 due in BOTH Dropbox & Flip no later than end of day Monday 11/7
  • Writing #6 – part 1 select & annotate due in Dropbox (see tech directions) no later than end of day Sunday 11/13
  • Book Talk preparation due whatever day you signed up for 🙂

DEADLINE: Writing #6 – part II write the analysis due in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 11/16

Writing #6 Part II – Rap Analysis Paper due 11/16Download

Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, November 14th

Read Aloud – A Different Pond by Bao Phi & Thi Bui

Indie Read

Quickwrite #27: “A Conversation with Asian Americans on Race” – New York Times

STUDY/READ: “What Did My Mother the Chemist See in Betty Crocker?” by Celeste Ng

REVIEW: Features of a Review (notes page on GClassroom) if you need it

DEADLINE: Writing #3 due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 11/20

English 9/10 – Friday, November 4th

Book Trailers & Indie Read with clipboard check-in

FINISH/READ: Every Day by David Levithan (with audio) p. 613 – 631

Quickwrite #20: What does this book (Every Day) have to teach me about how I should live my life?

UPCOMING: After the “break” we’ll watch Every Day.

TO-DO: If you have writing assignments you haven’t turned in, do that on this upcoming week of no student attendance.

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, November 4th

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in

STUDY: “Rapping Deconstructed” video from vox.com

INFO: Quick look at annotation examples for rap lyrics (find them as material in GClassroom) & Book Talk info for our return from “break”

DEADLINES:

  • Submission #2 due in BOTH Dropbox & Flip no later than end of day Monday 11/7
  • Writing #6 – part 1 select & annotate due in Dropbox (see tech directions) no later than end of day Sunday 11/13
  • Book Talk preparation due whatever day you signed up for 🙂

Multi-Cultural Lit – Friday, November 4th

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in

STUDY: Anatomy of a review – read and dissect the saucemagazine.com review of Mai Lee in Brentwood

https://saucemagazine.com/a/524/280-choices-await-you-at-mai-lee

TO-DO: Check out the writing assignment and DO THE RESEARCH over the week off (That means choose an album, movie, or restaurant to review and spend some time with it. Be sure the creator(s)/owner(s) are BIPOC.)

DEADLINE: Writing #3 due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 11/20 (that’s after we come back from the week off)

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, November 3rd

Book Talk & Indie Read

OVERVIEW: Collective Comments on Submission #1

Quickwrite #23: “This is America” by Childish Gambino

STUDY: Art of Hip-Hip – more background, thinking, and intro to the next writing assignment (part 1)

NEW ASSIGNMENT INTRO: Writing #6 – part 1 select & annotate due in Dropbox (see tech directions) no later than end of day Sunday 11/13

Writing #6 part 1 Rap Lyric AnnotationDownload

DEADLINE: Submission #2 due in BOTH Dropbox & Flip no later than end of day Monday 11/7

UPCOMING/SNEAK PEEK: Book talks by YOU after we return from the November/Fall/Parent-Teacher Conference break. . .

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, November 2nd

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

Indie Read w/ rate calculation & challenge/goal-setting

STUDY/READ: “Why Study Rhetoric? or, What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us About Writing” by Kyle Steadman

https://writingcommons.org/article/why-we-study-rhetoric/

DISCUSSION/LISITNG: The Art of Hip-Hop – why rap? & artists we know/love . . .

DEADLINE: Submission #2 due in BOTH Dropbox & Flip no later than end of day Monday 11/7