Final Essay for Crips & Bloods

Final Essay on

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Due Friday, May 14, 2010

Graphic Organizer: 10 points

1^st Draft with revision: 10 points

Final Draft: 40 points

Total: 60 points

For this assignment, you will write a 5 paragraph essay. (If you write an 8 paragraph essay, you will receive +6 extra credit on this assignment.)

Choose one of the topics below:

1. 
   
   How are the Crips and Bloods “made in America”? Use details from the film to describe how gangs were shaped by historical events. Then discuss how you are “made” by your environment.
2. 
   
   Think about the quote: “Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent they become the instruments of their own oppression.” (Kumasi) In what ways do you experience this in your community or in your personal relationships with others?
3. 
   
   Compare and contrast gang & club and riot & guerrilla. How does language influence the way we think about things? What do you notice about the words you choose to use?

Due on May 14: All of your materials, including the graphic organizer, your first draft, and your typed final draft, are due.

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

The vocabulary list below was generated from the film  Crips and Bloods: Made in America

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Write a definition in your own words.
3. Finally, write a sentence using the word.

Alienation
Internalize
Disarray
Immune
Cesspool
Riot
Guerilla
Dilapidated
Rubble
Taboo
Salvage
Instigating
Oppression
Incorrigible
Scapegoat
Sporadic