The Definitive Guide to Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.

This is the one and only DAMN. ALBUM GUIDE you will ever need! This product explores track by track Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize Winning and Grammy Award Winning Rap Album DAMN. This is definitely a powerful and valuable unit. I resisted a long time to put this out but I decided it was time. That being said this is a rap album so…PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT. Get your consent forms ready. Here it is.

In this product you will receive:

The Forty-eight page Workbook/Interactive Notebook
8 Articles related to Kendrick’s DAMN. (found via the web for free)
Various Music Videos from the DAMN. album and analysis of Kendrick’s music (also found on you tube)
The Link to Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. album (Found on you tube as well)

The Following is the Table of Contents to the Interactive Notebook:

TABLE OF CONTENTS - p. 1
BEEF - pages 2-4 (Background on the birth of DNA and Rivera)
BLOOD. & DNA. - pages 5-8 (side by side analysis of Tracks 1 and 2)
Y - pages 9- Eleven
ELEMENTS, Energy and Emotions - pages Twelve-Nineteen (Emotions through Elements well worth the purchase price alone)
In Your FEELS - pages -Twenty-two
Loyalty and Pride - pages 23-26 (Explores the visuals of LOYALTY and the complete explanation of the images within)
Sit Down, Be HUMBLE - pages 27-29
Love Speak - pages 30-33 (The Many Different Types of Love)
America, God Bless You. I’m Still Scared. - pages 34-36
DA VINCI CODES - pages 37-38
GOD. - pages 39-42
FULL CIRCLE pages 43-46
DAMN. Album Review - page 47
DAMN. (Final Assignment) - page 48
Cover Page - page 49

The supplemental materials are FREE and can be found online for FREE. The big reason you can find the files in the folders is because I have a mania for simplifying things and I know some schools might not have good internet access or the Wifi jumps in and out (very frustrating). Hopefully the files will relieve these inconveniences. Be sure to please give the videos a like and thumbs up when you do use YouTube.

The real value is the time you save not having to peruse the internet for these articles, videos, and interviews. The workbook alone is worth its weight and will keep students occupied. The only downside for this unit is that it is NOT STANDARDS ALIGNED and there is NO GRADE RUBRIC/ANSWER SHEETS (sorry about that). However, the value of introspection and self-reflection in the Workbook/Notebook more than makes up for this absence. You will see that most of the questions in the Notebook are used as discussion pieces to help facilitate conversation/dialogue among students and increase understanding, exploration, and comprehension of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. Be sure to use THINK, PAIR, and SHARE strategies regularly and often. ANSWER SHEETS will be forthcoming in future updates so be sure to check back. In the meantime, enjoy exploring this master work from one of the greatest rap artists of all time: King Kendrick, aka K-DOT, aka KUNG-FU Kenny, aka Cornrow Kenny, the man himself, Kendrick Lamar.