"Normal" Free Write #3: The conventional Free Write assignment is posted here relative to our reading for this week.

OR

Alternate Free Write #3: You can complete an alternate Free Write assignment, which IN ADDITION to counting as your Free Write #3 will also allow you to opt-out (with full credit) of on any ONE future Free Write assignment this quarter. Here is the alternate assignment:

1. Read the 6-page excerpt below by Italo-Egyptian hip-hop artist Amir Issaa.
2. Attend his event on November 3, "Rap music changed my life»: the pedagogical importance of rap"
3. Write a 150-250 word reflection on the lecture and submit it for Free Write #3. There is not a prompt. You can write about anything that struck you about his talk and work, and/or you can think about how his work resonates with any of the questions and topics we have discussed and read about in class.

Vivo per questo, capitolo 1.pdf