Northside Hip Hop Archive Curriculum Resource Guide: Music, Grade 10, Open (AMU2O) – Lesson 2 Lesson Title Set World Records: Canada’s Hip Hop Ambassadors Expectations: Learning Goals Assessment Explore the central World Class Reflecting, Responding and Analyzing elements of hip hop The Battles B2. Music and Society culture B2.1 explain the origins of traditional, commercial, or art music with Examine the role of Unsustainable Global reference to the culture or community in which it was created radio and record label Success: Exit Slip support of artists Materials B2.2 describe significant contributions of individuals within a community World Class: Explore Hip Hop guide and notes tool or culture to genres of traditional, commercial, and/or art music LCD Projector, Laptop and Internet access Laptop/tablets for small groups Unsustainable Global Success: Exit Slip Rivalries, Feuds and Beef: The Battles Assessment Students watch a clip of a rap battle (www.nshharchive.ca/curriculum/music.html). The Opportunities teacher asks them to think about what the element of competition brings to hip hop. Does it inspire innovation? Push creativity? Is it good for business? Is there a downside? Assessment Students discuss with an elbow partner and then share ideas with the larger group. FOR Minds On Time: 10 Before: Learning: World Class: Canadian Hip Hop’s International Scene 5 Essential Practices Rivalries The teacher notes that as a cultural movement, hip hop goes Designed to Promote discussion Anti-Racist Pedagogy beyond music genre. Students list the four elements of hip hop 25 (rapping/MCing, DJing/turntablism, b-boying/breaking dancing • Education for and graffiti). The teacher explains students will explore three of empowerment Assessment these areas via a series of video clips. Students form small groups Rivalries, Feuds and FOR and view the clip (and read accompanying text) that depict award Beef: The Battles Learning: winning Canadian pioneers of DJing, freestyle rap and break •Talk about race World Class dancing, taking notes of key ideas. All clips are available at: Unsustainable Global research notes www.nshharchive.ca/curriculum/music.html Success •Capture the Unseen 1. World Record: Longest Freestyle World Class An 8-minute video excerpt of Sarnia, Ontario’s Duane “D.O.” Gibson’s Assessment •Tell a Complicated (D.O. = Defy the Odds) Guinness world record setting freestyle—8 hours Story FOR and 45 minutes long. World Class Learning: 2. DMC World Champion: DJ Dopey •Connect to the Unsustainable A 6-minute video of DJ Dopey’s award winning 2003 set. Present Global Success 3. Canadian Floor Masters in Russia Unsustainable Global 1985 news segment profiling the top ranked Canadian Floor Masters, a exit slip Success break dancing group. After groups have viewed all three, they pick one area to research Differentiated using the Explore Hip Hop tool. What makes effective freestyle? Instruction: An amazing set? Or an accomplished b-boy? Each group presents findings to the class. Learning environment Time: 50 50 Time: During: Action! Full class, small Unsustainable Global Success: Exit Slip group and Students respond to a quote from Dr. Mark Campbell’s article in the Globe and Mail “The individual work unsustainable global success of the Canadian music world” that discusses the lack of Connection Connection support of Canadian hip hop by the radio and music industries. Despite hip hop’s central Interest & role in popular music, and the success of Canadian hip hop artists internationally, why is Content Consolidation & Consolidation Canadian hip hop sidelined in Canada? Choice of hip hop After: After: Time: 15 Time: 15 elements Next Students can share their ideas from their exit slips on the course online forum, or they can be redistributed during Ti me Steps another class to prompt small group discussions. (Assessment for/of learning) ‘Unsustainable Global Success’: Exit Slip “At this year’s Juno Awards, Jazz Cartier’s non-televised expletive to describe the lack of support his music receives from the Canadian radio industry came at a perfect moment. Standing on the shoulders of Vancouver hip-hop group the Rascalz, who refused to accept their Juno in 1998 because it was not part of the main ceremony, Cartier poignantly reminded us of the many ways in which only some music genres receive major label support in Canada. “This means a lot to me, but like I said this evening, the Canadian radio is gonna have to stop bullshitting and start playing our own on our radio so these kids don’t feel the need to leave to the States in order to make it or get heard,” he wrote on his Instagram account after appearing onstage.” (The Globe and Mail, Mark V. Campbell) Despite hip hop’s central role in popular music, and the success of Canadian hip hop artists internationally, why is Canadian hip hop sidelined in Canada? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ “At this year’s Juno Awards, Jazz Cartier’s non-televised expletive to describe the lack of support his music receives from the Canadian radio industry came at a perfect moment. Standing on the shoulders of Vancouver hip-hop group the Rascalz, who refused to accept their Juno in 1998 because it was not part of the main ceremony, Cartier poignantly reminded us of the many ways in which only some music genres receive major label support in Canada. “This means a lot to me, but like I said this evening, the Canadian radio is gonna have to stop bullshitting and start playing our own on our radio so these kids don’t feel the need to leave to the States in order to make it or get heard,” he wrote on his Instagram account after appearing onstage.” (The Globe and Mail, Mark V. Campbell) Despite hip hop’s central role in popular music, and the success of Canadian hip hop artists internationally, why is Canadian hip hop sidelined in Canada? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Explore Hip Hop: Elements MCing DJing Breakdancing Choose one of the elements. Research your area of focus and make notes on interesting, substantive information you discover. Ensure you engage at least three credible sources. Sources: .