February 19

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I. Announcements​

• Remember to look for the right dates under "CYPHER" to find your readings!
• If you are 100% sure of your presentation's topic, add it to the sign-up sheet.  Do NOT duplicate a topic.​

• All presentation links must be emailed (with editor access) the day before (the slides do not need to be complete)
• Next Presentations are Wednesday, 2/26: Luke + James; Charlotte
• Next week, you will be working with a partner.  Look for an email from me about this on Monday morning.
  

II. Hype Presentations

Davis & Trace

Hype Presentation by R T Huffman

Paige & Kate

KEITH LEE PRESENTATION by kate pagni

Our Current Topic:
Black Language & the Innanets

II. Black Rhetoric/Black Language... On(the)Line

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Our Main Elements

• The Black Rhetoric of Call & Response
• The Black Rhetoric of Signifyin
• Tonal Semantics
• The Black Rhetoric of Semantic Inversion
• The Black Rhetoric of Directness
• The Black Rhetoric of Narrative Sequencing

Our Secondary Elements

• Proverbial Statement 
• Spontaneity and Improvisation 
• Image-Making and Metaphor
• Braggadocio
• Exaggerated Language
• Mimicry
• Punning/Play on Words

These research lenses come from the 1977 work of Geneva Smitherman.

Click Here for sign-up with a partner for next week's work on Black Rhetoric where you will make a visual together of one of the elements above!  We will work on this in class. Details to follow on Monday.

III. Your Turn Now

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TODAY: https://bit.ly/digi-219

1. In your small group, choose a facilitator who will keep you on track and report to the class on behalf of the group.
2. As  a group, choose one of the videos that is listed below.  If another group has already claimed the video on the collective google doc, you need to pick another. Click here for your google doc.
3. Watch the video below.  As you watch and listen, make notes of the main elements and secondary elements.  If you forgot the definitions of these things, click here for the handout.
4. As a group, complete the google doc for your video.  Facilitators: help with a process for getting it done (remember: leadership is NOT doing it all yourself)  Click here for your google doc.

LaShun Pace

Ricky Smiley

Deion Sanders (start @5:05)

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Jennifer Hudson & ​Alethea Crimmins

"On Fleek" w/ Peaches Monroe

CLICK HERE FIRST, Then Below...

Eddie Murphy (start @4:25)