Hip Hop

2. Read article by James McBride  by Tuesday 
annotate: circle unfamiliar vocab, write synonym 
summarize the point of each paragraph 

3. Hip Hop Planet assignments  
make a copy of the                     Hip Hop unit 

1. charting the text for Hip Hop Planet due by Wednesday, January 11 
2. soapstone for Hip Hop Planet due Thursday, Jan. 12 
3. Precis for Hip Hop Planet due Friday, Jan. 13 

Sentence One (What?)

___________________________ in the ______________________________________(year)
   (author)                                                        (A. genre)                                 (title)

__________________________ that ____________________________________________ .
   (B. verb)                                                      (major assertion or thesis)

Sentence Two (How?)

___________________ supports (her) (his) ________________________ by _________
   (author's last n                    (claims, assertions, arguments, etc.)       

_________________________________________________________________________ .
 (B. and C. types of evidence from text in order presented in text)

Sentence Three (Why?)

(The author's purpose is to) __________________________ (in order to, so that, etc.)
                                                                  (D.)

_______________________________________________________________________ .

Sentence Four (To Whom?)

(The author writes in a) ________________ (tone for) _________________ as a way to
                                                  (E.)                                 (apparent audience)   
___________(what relationship, larger goal the author wants and why this is important). 

Here are examples of terms that can be used:

A. genre	B. rhetorically accurate verb	C. verb followed by evidence	D.in order to	E. the author's tone is
article	argues	comparing . . . .	convince	formal
book	asserts	contrasting . . . .	inform	earnest
book review	claims	defining . . . .	persuade	grave
chapter in ___	explains	describing	point out	humorous
excerpt from ___	implies	exploring . . . .	demonstrate that	concerned
column	suggests	explaining . . . .	show	informal
editorial	questions	illustrating . . . .	suggest that	serious

Adapted from 
http://www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/gdumler/Engl%201A/Supplements/rhetorical_precis_examples.htm

sample precis from Oregon State 

A.              In her article "Who Cares if Johnny Can't Read?" (1997), Larissa MacFarquhar asserts that Americans are reading more than ever despite claims to the contrary and that it is time to reconsider why we value reading so much, especially certain kinds of "high culture" reading. MacFarquhar supports her claims about American reading habits with facts and statistics that compare past and present reading practices, and she challenges common assumptions by raising questions about reading's instrisic value. Her purpose is to dispel certain myths about reading in order to raise new and more important questions about the value of reading and other media in our culture. She seems to have a young, hip, somewhat irreverent audience in mind because her tone is sarcastic, and she suggests that the ideas she opposes are old-fashioned positions.

1. VHI precis (Background of Hip Hop) 

Watch the start and end of VH1's video documentary "And you don't stop, 30 years of Hip Hop" 

and write a precis on the video about Hip Hop (VH1) 

Due Wednesday Per. 1 & Per. 6