Assignment Due Dates this Semester

Assignment Due Dates this Semester
Unlike classes in the past, this semester I am trying something new, besides looking at the global reach of hip hop and key stakeholders beginning with women in hip hop, students will make several short presentations for each unit. In each unit the student has to indentify one artist who is representative of the genre discussed and use their life and work as emblematic of the core values, themes and aesthetics of the art form. Again, for each essay take a free write which you have posted and expand ideas already explored, the idea is not to write an entirely different essay, but to reflect more deeply on ideas already shared perhaps in hast. It is also an opportunity to do more research to sharpen or strengthen your position. Students will write and present 3-4 essays from the list below. (If you like one of the extra credit topics better, we can talk about your swapping it for one of the seven listed below.)

Each research essay is 3-4 pages long, not including the works cited. Include 1 direct citation, 1 free paraphrase, and 1block quote in each essay—three citations in total:

Presentations and Essays

1. Women in Hip Hop with a side-bar on Hyper-Masculinity: October 1

2. The Graf or Writing Movement, October 6 essay is due for peer review, Oct. 8presentation

3. Dance or Bi-boying, Bi-Girling, October 13 essay/15 presentation

4. DJing, Oct. 20 essay/22 presentation

5. MC or Poet/Rapper Oct. 27/29 writing workshop, Nov. 3 presentation

6. Nov. 5/10 Project reports in small groups

7. Nov. 12/17 Fiction presentations

8. Extra credit projects: Hip Hop as a Global Movement, Hip Hop Theatre, Hip Hop Spirituality, Hip Hop Visual Artists

End of semester.

Revision workshop—11/19…portfolio narratives begun in class. Posted by 11/20

Announcement

M1 of Dead Prez is in town this month. He will be talking about his trip to Gaza with the Hon. Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman and Green Party Presidential nominee. I will post the flier later