Is rap poetry at all? 

Have a look at the suggested links and come out with your own opinion on the issue.

Wikipedia

Poetry foundation

Against: American conservative

For: The Daily Beast

Rap vs Hip Hop

That is to be done on your own, during the week. In the next two sessions we are going to create our own rap/hip hop song out of a poem. We are lucky cause we have Miriam and Nadya here to help us locate a good poem for your group, but B4 that have a look at the procedure:

How to Write a Rap Song

7 TIPS FOR WRITING A RAP

Now write down here your own microtale, please do not copy paste from any other site the idea is to write your own stuff.

Micro Tales

Post Here your microtale...

Surf the contents of The New Yorker and find a news you like, then get ready to explain that to your classmates next week.

Please try to find cultural items that might interest us...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/next-thing

 Now we get into Poetry, please listen to the poem while watching the video, then read it and finally read and listen to it. WATCH IT http://youtu.be/N3o0MFSv4dw READ AND LISTEN http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/grow%20up%20with%20me

Please make any comments you feel like in the blog...you can also include images or sounds. Then upload a new video in the blog and give reasons to your classmates to view it...