Friday, May 30, 2014

Metaphors in Macbeth- Check you sef and see if you can add them to your ryhmes

Monday, May 19, 2014

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip-Hop



Matt Daniels Article Here 


Matt Daniels is a designer, coder, and data scientist at Undercurrent in New York City. His past works include the Etymology of "Shorty" and Outkast, in graphs and charts. He decided to examine the vocabulary of hip hop artists, and this is what he found. – May 2014

Wu Tang Clan and Shakespeare



In this TEDx talk, Akala examines the correlation between hip-hop and "Shakespeare" and how these two seemingly different genres of language have become the custodians of both language and knowledge.

Please answer the following questions:

            1.)   What is iambic pentameter based on?
            2.)   What is Hip-Hop short for?   What is its word derivation?
            3.)   What are the five elements of hip-hop?
            4.)   How are hip-hop artists similar to the Shakespeare regarding their position of being custodians                       of language and knowledge?