February 3-5
happy black History month!
​It's the 100-year anniversary!

I. Opening Annoucements​
  • Thank you all for playing the Name Game!
  • ​Hype Presentations Start this Week! Melinda, I had to move your date.
  • 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.
  • Remember that your Hype presentation needs a visual package that matches your argument/rhetor as well as animations and transitions. Let's plan for a full demonstration/workshop to start off Tuesday's class. Bring the device that you are most comfortable with (and maybe even some images from what you might present).
  • If you use Canva, be sure ti use the paid version supplied by TCU. The free version includes ads on the videos. NO ads!
II. Black Rhetoric Zine-makers Doin Their Thing!
  1. Today we will form three groups and share zines. Choose one facilitator for your group. Choose a different facilitator from last time.
  2. Each person should do a show n' tell of their zine. First, explain your approach. Second, discuss your definition of BR. Third, walk the group through every zine page and its images (show your zine from your device). Fourth, explain why you chose these images.
  3. As a group, each person should ask the zine-maker any question they have. Each person should tell the zine-maker what they liked best.
  4. Go on to the next zine-maker and follow steps #2-3 above until everyone has shared.
  5. Facilitator (take notes if you like) give an overview. Tell us similarities and differences in how the group's zines were designed and/or how the group's zines defined BR.  Also, tell us what you found most interesting in the group's discussions and designs and why.
  6. Remember: this is a no judgement zone for anyone who did not finish their zines.

III. Annie's hype

At the end of class, you will have a writing/classroom activity about your colleague's presentation.
​Be prepared to describe what stands out most from the presentation.
IV. More Elements of Smitherman's Black Rhetoric
V. Smitherman's Definitions: The Final Exercise

Team 1:
​Reverend haynes
Watch at: 1:06:30-1:11:30

Team 2:
Lashun pace & Family
Pay attention to when the song is "over" (w/ Pace's sisters and mother)

Team 3:
Rickey Smiley
​& Master P

Team 4:
Peaches Monroee
​"on fleek"
CLICK HERE FIRST FOR ORIGINAL "ON FLEEK" POST

Team 5:
​deion sanders
(start at 5:05 and watch for 5-6 minutes)

Team 6:
Alethea Crimmins on the “Jennifer Hudson Show”

Team 7:
Eddie Murphy & Boomerang
Trigger Warning: EXPLICIT!
Use the handout as you listen. 
​You and your partner(s) will talk to the class after you have compared notes.
shortlink: https://bit.ly/ca-feb5
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