Student Contest | Write a Rap About the News of 2015 – NYTimes.com

The Contest Rules: Write Your Own ‘Year in Rap’

1. The rap should be 12 to 16 lines long.

2. Students should choose at least four important New York Times stories from one of the news categories listed below.

It’s fine to focus on a smaller topic found within a section in The Times. For example, you can write a rap based on the Black Lives Matter movement or one of the 2016 presidential candidates rather than the whole range of national or political news this year.

Or, you might focus on 2015 movies or football rather than covering other news from the Arts or Sports sections. But you should also feel free to include as many, and as wide a range of, news stories from a particular section as you like. (More about narrowing your choices can be found in this section of the lesson plan.)

Here are the sections from which you can choose:

World
U.S.
Business
Technology
Science
Health
Sports
Arts
Fashion
Obituaries (from 2015 only)
3. The rap should be original

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