Hip-Hop Matters

Chapter1
The Billboard can make or break an artist career.
The Sound scan changed the way the Billboard operates.
Rap music wasn’t very big in the music industry.
Rap had about 5% of the industry
The percentage increased to 32%.

Why is chapter one so boring?
What does the Sound Scan have to do with Hip-Hop mattering?
Why does chapter one talk about the pop culture?
Are the later chapters more interesting?

Faustian- sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain
Vitriolic- harsh or corrosive in tone
Apocalyptic- of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy

Not Sure
Exposition- the beginning of the book.

1. In the beginning of the Book the author gives some examples of why Hip-Hop matters and a few of the origins.

Roar Part 9

180-200
Rooster believes he was wrong about the strikers and that he actually liked them.
Rooster has changed in just six months due to the strikers.
Rooster asked Irving if he could help the strikers become better bowlers.
Irving gives Rooster a book called lets go bowling which is a book he got from his brother which teaches people how to bowl.
Jayson starts to date Elma and Rooster graduates.

Did Rooster graduate?
Why did Jayson start to like Elam?
Does Jayson know that Puffs lied to him about Rooster and Jolene?
Why did Puffs help Jayson get a date with Elma?

Ensconced-sheltered comfortably and firmly
Exiguity-Scantiness; smallness; thinness; the quality of being meager.
Objurgate- To express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely.

Denouement- the ending of the story
Falling action-(pg.200) when Rooster is called into the office to find out that he graduated.
1. The last pages of the book tell how the strikers didn’t win the championship and how much Rooster has changed. It also tells of how he graduated and that Jayson is going out with Elma.

Roar Part 8

160-180

1. Rooster finds out he has to write a paper on the strikers after he is done with them.
2. Writing the paper will be his year-end assignment to see if he graduates or not.
3. There were about fifty people at Dorothy-Anne’s funeral.
4. Rooster learns that Elma is no longer apart of the project with the strikers.
5. Mrs. Helmsley knew Rooster’s father.

1. How did Rooster’s father know Mrs. Helmsley?
2. Who is Louis L’Amour?
3. Why did Rooster’s dad like Louis L’Amour?
4. Did Rooster get his writing skills from his father?

1. Bizarre-markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements
2. Eulogy- a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person.
3. Eulogizing-to praise highly

1. Tragedy-(pg.162) When Dorothy-Anne dies.
2. Paradox-(pg.161) When Rooster and Elma find out that they actually like each other.
1. In these pages Rooster is decided if he should be a writer or not since he is so good at it.

Roar part 7

140-160
1. Rooster meeting with Mrs. Helmsley was cancelled and he was happy.
2. Dorothy-Jane-Anne had died off a massive heart attack.
3. Rooster is deeply saddened by her death.
4. Rooster remembers 7 years ago when his father died.
5. Dorothy-Jane-Anne liked Rooster.
Why did Dorothy-Jane-Anne like Rooster?
Why didn’t the doctors take better care of her if they knew she had a weak heart?
Did Rooster like Dorothy-Jane-Anne more than a friend?
Did Dorothy-Jane-Anne like Rooster as more then a friend?
Elated-very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits: an elated winner of a contest
Ruefully-causing sorrow or pity
Rue-to feel sorrow over

1. Alliteration-(pg. 141) “She said you were sitting next to her”
2. Archaism-(pg. 156) “ She sat up right in her hair”

1. In this pages Rooster realizes that Dorothy-Anne liked her after she dies.

Roar part 6

120-140

1. Rooster begins to grow up.
   Rooster realizes that he has to change his attitude when he deals with the strikers.
   Roseann keeps repeating what Rooster said the first time they met.
   Rooster takes the strikers out for bowling again.
   Rooster new plan was to be more involved with the group.
   
2. Why does Roseann keep swearing?
   Why does Rooster decide to just now get involved with the strikers?
   Why does Roseann only listen to Rooster?
   Does Elma’s anger have to do anything with it?
   
3. Demeanor- conduct; behavior; deportment.
   Demecarium- Demecarium bromide is one of several topical (applied directly to the affected area) medications used to reduce elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) associated with primary glaucoma in cats, dogs, and other animals.
   Entastic- Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.
   
4. The conflict of the story is between Rooster and the strikers.
   The conflict between the strikers and Rooster is Man vs. Man.
   
5. In this pages Rooster gets involved with the strikers and finally acts like a leader.