Presenters this week:
Deshawn & dee  |   Eric & John

I. Greetings!

Thank you Arielle, Tychelle, Peyton, and Victoria for being our first presenters last week.  You did beautifully!  Thank you Madi, Ciera, Troy, Ever, Amari, Gabi, Phillip, Adhel, Daniella for sharing your responses last Thursday!

II. Reminders​ & Announcements

• Click here if you need to see your day and time for the sign-up list for the presentation. You must do your presentation with your camera on.
• Click here if you ever need another copy of the syllabus (there is a PDF and flipbook)
• Kayla is no longer on the roster.  Does anyone want to take her spot this Thursday?  (Slot #5)
• If you meet someone in the class who you think you might want to present with, you can still partner up.

III. Thursday's Assignment: PROJECT #1 (4 points)

• Click here for the project overview and point-spread. Please note: If you do this project with a partner, you should have at least 7 slides instead of just 5.
• Q&A​

Our Zoom Sessions

• Tuesdays are workshop days
• Thursdays are panels for the Hype presentations
• Thursdays are also homework days
  
• There is a reading + writing assignment every Thursday 

11-11:15am: Come into the room, get comfortable, have something to snack on during the sessions... or... talk trash with Carmen (it's a likely occurrence), review the day's agenda

11:15am: Class starts and lateness is marked (please see syllabus for how lateness gets counted)

11:15am-12:20pm: Formal class (based on T & Th formats above)
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12:20pm: Class ends and Carmen hangs around on zoom for any brief questions or after-class chat you need

IV. RR#3: Article Jigsaw on African American Rhetoric
Jigsaw is a kind of puzzle where many people read different things and then everyone pieces together knowledge of the whole that way (rather than one person doing/learning everything alone). Find your article in the list on this google doc and give 2-3 sentences of information on it right underneath the title.  Make sure that you include your name.

• Click here for the google doc
• The idea here is that you can look at your colleague's notes/annotation if you ever need a source for your Hype Presentation or Project #1
• URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rc_X8h2ft0FfUxsiAOaIwArj-2t0yqCJdCsyd-Dns8o/edit?usp=sharing ​

V. “The Ballot or the Bullet": Workshop#2 on Discourse Strategies & Black Rhetoric (BR)

1. Click here for today's PDF. Please keep your notes and this worksheet.  You will often be asked to perform an Black rhetorical analysis of a speech or performance.  Use this vocabulary/these definitions for that work. The point is for these definitions to become a natural part of how you talk about and hear Black language and rhetoric not a quiz.
2. Click here for today's speech.  Use this handout to follow along with the speech that we will be listening to today: Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet." We are listening to an excerpt. As a class, we will listen to the speech together. Use the handout as you listen.
3. As you listen, take a few moments to make notes about the discourse strategies.  
4. Open Discussion: What examples of BR does Malcolm X use?  Why? Why was X so central to Black Nationalism?  Why were so many people talking about this speech in this year's presidential election?​​

Click above for the entire speech.

11:50-23:10    AND    37:31-39:13