Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, November 15th

Student Book Talks & Indie Read

REVIEW: Rap Rhetorical Analysis assignment. Check out these slides on today’s GClassroom stream to clarify what this assignment really is.

WRITE TIME/DEADLINE: Let’s work on this paper/ watching Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (an Ice-T film)

DEADLINES:

  • Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)
  • Writing #6 – Part Two: rhetoric of rap paper due no later than end of day Wednesday 11/17

PAST DUE: Writing #6 – Part One: rap lyric annotations were due no later than end of day Sunday 11/14 (YESTERDAY)

Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, November 15th

Read Aloud – Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard & Juana Martinez-Neal.

Indie Read

Quickwrite #29: NYT “Conversations w/ Native Americans on Race”

READ: “Indian Education” from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist-Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (find this on today’s GClassroom)

BOOK PREVIEW: Last novel of the semester starts TOMORROW! Check out the slides on GClassroom (posted on last Wednesday’s stream) to see the choices.

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, November 10th

Book Talk & Indie Read w/ padlet board update.

WATCH: “Rapping, Deconstructed” vox.com

STUDY: Rhetoric of Rap – another annotation example + short rhetorical analysis example.

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) SOME of these are still missing!

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, November 9th

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!

Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, November 9th

Read Aloud – The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad (with S.K. Ali & Hatem Aly)

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #27: “Muslims Read Hate Comments”

READ: “The One Who Defines Me” by Aisha Saeed (find this on today’s GClassroom)

PAST DUE: Writing #4 – Review – WAS due in GClassroom no later than end of day Sunday 11/7.

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, November 8th

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
Writing #6 – PART ONE Rap Lyric Annotation due 11/14Download

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