January 25

i. Opening Go-Around

1. Tell us your name, pronouns, and major/minor.
2. Tell us about an artist, moment, or sound in Hip Hop that you admire and say why. 

II. Name Game
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III. Q&A on the Syllabus

• What questions, curiosities, or concerns do you have?
• Please remember to bring a device that you feel comfortable using to go online, make slides, create images, etc to our classes!​​

IV. The Hype Presentation

• Read over the guidelines.  After that, we will have Q&A on the presentation guidelines. Expect a short demo on google slides in class this week or next.
• For a sample, click here.

Click here for sign-up sheet
OR go here: http://tinyurl.com/HHR-hype

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

What makes this QUINTESSENTIAL Hip Hop? Then (1985)? And/or now?

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Classroom Activity #1
Please Note: Classroom activities are only open and available to you until midnight of the day it was assigned. Complete the activity by going to the course website page or using the link below.

http://tinyurl.com/HHR-ca1

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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!! LOL!

Welcome to Hip Hop Rhetorics! It's ON!