1. HIP-HOP
AND
INRW

2. Matilda Staudt
Lead INRW Instructor
Palo Alto College

3. Integrated Reading & Writing
INRW =
Integrated Reading & Writing

5. Boring & Stale

6. We’ll discuss 3 Assignments to:
Keep students engaged
Help students practice reading and writing skills

7. Think, Pair, Share: Annotate
Can you find any literary devices in this hip-hop song?
What is this song saying?

8. Why it works:
Low-stakes writing
Reading/Annotating Practice
Short assignment

10. Translating/Interpreting Lyrics
and
Revising Sentences

11. One Semester in 2 Sections
Successfully
Facilitated
This Assignment
One Semester in 2 Sections

12. “Successfully Facilitated”
Students were engaged
Attendance improved
They practiced reading & writing

13. Assignment Details:
In pairs, choose song of any genre
Should contain slang and grammatically INCORRECT sentences.

14. Songs should have:
at least two grammatically incorrect sentences
two “made-up” words

15. Assignment Details:
All songs need my approval.
Too many swears words or sexually explicit lyrics = NOT approved

16. Assignment Details:
Translate/interpret song meaning (reading skills)
Re-write lyrics into grammatically correct sentences (writing skills)

17. Original Grammatically Correct Translation
Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”
Original
Grammatically Correct Translation
Lights is blinding, girls need blinders Or they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is lined with casualties who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple Eve
Caught up in the in-crowd
Now you're in-style, and in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out The city of sin is a pity on a whim Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
The bright lights of New York are blinding. People should wear sunglasses, or they won’t be able to see and could get in a lot of trouble. Another name for New York is the Big Apple. Don’t mess with New York.
In New York, there are a lot of high-society circles of wealthy people. New York is also the home of the popular magazine Vogue, edited by Anna Wintour, and it is also the birth place of voguing, a style of dance. In New York, it is quite easy to get caught up in a dangerous lifestyle too.
Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”
Original Grammatically Correct Translation

18. Your Turn:
Think, Pair, Share

19. How Did Students
Perform?

20. Summarizing
And
Hip-Hop

21. Praise, Growth & Fixed Mind-Sets
Carol S. Dweck’s
Research:
Praise, Growth & Fixed Mind-Sets

22. In Pairs, Summarize in Rap Form:
Dweck’s Main Idea
Major Supporting Details

23. Do not include minor details
Length Specified: 1 mins. 30 secs.

24. Recording the Rap:
iTunes Apps
Recording over audio

25. How Did Students Perform?

26. Questions?

28. Matilda Staudt