Week 07: Blondie

Blondie, "Heart of Glass" (1979)

Week 07: Blondie
Mo 09.30

• Read: WARS—“Hip Hop is Destroying America’s Values” – “Hip Hop Demeans Women” 
• Class: Reading discussion

Tu 10.01

• Read: WARS—“Hip Hop is Destroying America’s Values” – “’There are Bitches and Hoes’” 
• Class: Reading discussion; Writers workshop; Multimedia presentations; Lecture—“How to Build a Solid Argument” 
• Due: INFOGRAPHIC (DRAFT 1, BRING 3 COPIES) 

We 10.02

• Read: WARS—“Just Keeping it Real” – “’There are Bitches and Hoes’” 
• Class: Multimedia presentations; Lecture—“How to Build a Solid Argument”
• Due: INFOGRAPHIC (DRAFT 1, BRING 3 COPIES) 

Upcoming:

Week 08: Elvis Presley
Mo 10.07

• Read: WARS—“We’re Not Role Models” – “Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop”
• Class: Reading discussion; Watch—Excerpts from And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop from VH1 (2004)
• Due: INFOGRAPHIC (FINAL DRAFT; ATTACH DRAFT 1 TO BACK)

Tu 10.08

• Read: WARS—“We’re Not Role Models” – “Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop” 
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations; Watch—Excerpts from And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop from VH1 (2004) 
• Due: INFOGRAPHIC (FINAL DRAFT; ATTACH DRAFT 1 TO BACK); REFLECTION 05

We 10.09

• Read: WARS—“Mutual Denials in the Hip Hop Wars” – “Six Guiding Principles for Creativity, Consumption, and Community in Hip Hop and Beyond”
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations
• Due: REFLECTION 05 

Due by Tu 10.1:

LEARNINGCURVE GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1 & 2:

1. ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
2. COMMA SPLICES AND FUSED (RUN-ON) SENTENCES
3. PARALLELISM
4. FRAGMENTS
5. PRONOUNS
6. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT