August 19

i. A Writing Activity
This activity is brief and informal.  Do not worry about handwriting, spelling, etc.  Do this on the notecard.

• 1)What is your name?  Pronouns?  Please also write out the pronunciation of your name.
• 2)What are your research interests (right now)?
• 3)What and who about Hip Hop/Hip Hop rhetorics interest you most and why? 

II. The 4-Question Interview: Partnered Interviews and Introductions

III. Name Game
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IV. Review of the Syllabus

• Read over the syllabus. Please read the whole thing this weekend, but get a sense of it now. What immediate questions or concerns do you have?​​

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Please remember to bring a device and earbuds that you feel comfortable using to go online, make slides, create images, etc to our classes!

V. Defining LITERACIES & CULTURAL RHETORICS

VI. Beefs, Battles & Diss Tracks w/ ROXANNE SHANTE

What makes this story Hip Hop? Hip Hop rhetorics? Hip Hop literacies? Then (1985)? Now?

​How does this story connect to Gwen Pough's arguments?

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Feel free to return to this moment in Hip Hop for your own HYPE presentations.  But do know this: if you get up there talkin bout how UTFO won this battle, WE IS FIGHTIN UP IN HERE!!

Welcome to Hip Hop Rhetorics! It's ON!

For next week, read Gwen Pough's Check It While I Wreck It if you haven't already and come ready to discuss (a few chapters will be available in PDF form on D2L).  Read the syllabus/course zine and do the assignment it asks of you.