Today we officially began writing our rap battles.
MEANNESS/INAPPROPRIATENESS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!! You can criticize your opponent’s character,
but not the real person. At all times,
you must remain school-appropriate and not use vulgarity.
You will be working and writing with your partner, although
you will make it look like you are pitted against each other in verbal battle. Decide who goes first.
Each partner has two
“rounds.”
Round 1 (25-30
seconds for each character) is an opening
gambit where the character boasts about their accomplishments (you may need
to research) and their skills in both their “life” and in their rapping
prowess. This should show your knowledge
of the character. Also, you may feel
free to begin to say why you are superior to your opponent, or why they are
inferior and will lose the battle. If
you are the second partner to go, obviously, you have a chance to respond to
anything that was said about you by your opponent.
Round 2 (15-20
seconds for each character) is a rebuttal
against what the other partner has claimed and a chance to insult the other
character’s accomplishments or skills for a second time. It’s your final say.
Your Rap Battle Must Include:
- · The typed poem/rap must be in “poetry format,” or broken into lines and stanzas.
- · You must include at least one allusion to Greek Mythology, the Bible, or some well-known story (aside from what the character is in).
- · The lines must be numbered.
- · It must include and identify at least one idiom
- · You have obviously used 10 of the poetic devices that we have learned in class.
- · A separate page identifies all the terms you used and where.
- · Your poem/rap must be split into two parts: an opening gambit, and a rebuttal.
- · It must demonstrate a clear understanding of the character - their personality and their real life accomplishments.
- · It must demonstrate an understanding of the opponent’s character
- · It must be edited and free of grammatical or punctuation errors.
