February 26
happy black History month!
​It's the 100-year anniversary!

I. Opening Annoucements​​

• Remember to email the editor link to your hype presentation on the Wednesday before at noon! Also note that there is no make-up for the Hype presentations.​
• Bring earbuds to every class, especially this next unit.
• Next Tuesday is the Phyllis Wheatley Peters (PWP) event! Lunch is at 12:30 (two points extra credit). 
• ​There is NO 9:30am class next Tuesday. Instead, class counts as the 6:30-8pm PWP event! Clear your schedules!

Things You Might Need

• The Course Syllabus
• The 2026 Hype Presentation Guidelines
• ​Hype Sign-up Sheet
• Angel's Hype Example
• ​Reading Response Guidelines​​
• Save-the-Date: MARCH 3​

Isla Presents . . .

kate Presents . . .

Copy of TV News Report_ Digital Newsletter by Slidesgo.pptx by Kate Lugar

II. The Black Language collaborative essays... what we had to say

III. The "Black in Blues"

Indigo, Haint Blue ​& Blue Bottle Trees

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 I) How is BLUE also Black rhetoric?
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II) How are The BLUES also Black rhetoric? What's the BLUE in The Blues?

1-4min; 5:45-9min

3-6min

More on Haint Blue

More on Indigo

Blues Bank #1

From the Spirituals to the Blues: Hearing the Connection

1. Why this repeating theme?
2. What are the Blues? What does this have to do with Black rhetoric? 
3. Why the Blues? 

"Trouble of the World" by Mahalia Jackson (1959)

"I Be Troubled" by Muddy Waters (1942)

Blues Form: The 12 bar structure used with an AAB lyric pattern