Today in class we read Track 4 in Dyson. In this chapter he is interviewed by Byron Hurt, director of the critically acclaimed Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Our freewrite was to look at the terms: sexism, violence, homophobia, and machismo and define them in our own words. We then shared aloud as I made lists. Afterwards we read aloud, and stopped often to discuss what Dyson was saying and compare this to Chang's Can't Stop, where apropos.

Homework was to develop 3-5 thesis sentences from the freewrite themes. Students could focus all of them on a specific theme, like "violence," or choose a few, let's say, "violence," "sexism," and "homophobia."

Bring them in the morning to share. We'll watch the film either tomorrow or Wednesday. Keep reading Chang and writing a reading log per chapter. It's better to read ahead than to get behind.