TOOKIE'S APOLOGY BLOG ASSIGNMENT

Class, here is your assignment for Thursday, April 10th

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS!!!

1. Go to http://www.tookie.com/ (click the link)

2. On the LEFT SIDE of the page click on the link to “The Apology”

3. Read Tookie’s “Apology”

4. On your INDIVIDUAL BLOG, write a response (11 sentences minimum) to this question:

“Was Tookie truly sorry for his crimes and was he redeemed? How does he show in his apology that he was sorry?”

Discuss the following using examples (quotes) from the text:

- What Tookie specifically apologizes for.

- What he never imagined would happen.

- What Tookie means by no longer being “dyseducated.”

- How Tookie plans to fight back against the Gang violence he helped create and what his goal is.

****Continue to work on your movie review for COLORSy****

****YOU HAVE A OPEN NOTES/PACKET QUIZ MONDAY IN CLASS! PRINT OUT THE NOTES FROM THE CLASS WEBSITE IF YOU NEED THEM!****

TOOKIE WILLIAMS NOTES FOR QUIZ ON MONDAY

Notes: Stanley “Tookie” Williams Timeline

(December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005)

• 1971: co-founded the Crips along with Raymond Washington in South central LA, intended as a “neighborhood watch”
• 1979: Convicted of murder, sentenced to death row at San Quentin prison in California.
• 1993: renounced his gang affiliation and became an anti-gang activist, eventually nominated for a Nobel prize 5 times for authoring anti-gang youth literature.
• December 2005: executed for 1979 murders despite controversy over anti-gang activism and possible innocence.
  

Notes: Questions to consider

1. In what ways was Tookie a REBEL?

2. How did he rebel against the gang culture that he helped create? (Explanations?/Alternatives?/Solutions?)

3. Was Stanley Tookie Williams truly “redeemed”?

Notes: Tookie Terms

1. Redemption: to make up for, to make amends, to RESTORE

2. Self Hate - Tookie’s theory that a people who are “spoon-fed” a negative stereotype of themselves for so long begin to believe this image, violently lashing out at others who fit this image (inner-race violence).

3. “Dyseducation” - How people are taught to self hate (negative images).

Notes: Psychoanalysis

Criminology - the study of crime; its different forms; causes/effects.

Penology - the processes of punishment, the prevention of crime, and the treatment of prisoners.

Notes: Sigmund Freud

19th century psychiatrist; invented psychoanalysis (study of the unconscious mind)

Proposed 3 parts of the unconscious mind:

Notes: The psyche

Id - childlike portion of the psyche; impulsive; only cares about what it wants (desire) and disregards consequences (ex. Babies)

Super-ego - develops through interactions with parents and other adults; the conscience and morals (difference between right and wrong)

Ego - The balance between the two; how a person acts

When 3 (id, superego, ego) are in balance, person leads a normal life

Out of balance and 1 dominates; leads to destructive behavior.

Parental neglect or traumatic childhood can lead to overdevelopment of ID; low SUPEREGO--don’t care about right/wrong or about others--leads to violent/criminal behavior

Movie Review Assignment

On your individual Blog:

Write a Film Review for the film "Colors" starring Robert Duvall (Hodges) and Sean Penn (MacMurphy) 

In your movie review you should include the following parts (model taking from the following movie review site...http://www.moviefilmreview.com/ht):

1) A photo (or photos) from the film

2) You will need to include the following: name of the film, prominent stars of the film, basic setting ( time and place), and type of film ( comedy, adventure, drama, etc.)

3) You will need to write a plot summary for the movie. Do not reveal the ending. Discuss at least 5 events and be sure to cover the entire scope of the movie, except the very end.

4) Discuss one aspect of filmmaking. You may choose from acting, direction, editing, costume design, set design, photography, background music, or anything else you may think of. Be sure that you are specific and cite examples from the movie.

5) Discuss another aspect of filmmaking. You may choose from acting, direction, editing, costume design, set design, photography, background music, or anything else you may think of, but obviously choose something different from what you discussed in the previous paragraph. Be sure that you are specific and cite examples from the movie.

6) Give your overall reaction to the film as well as your opinion on the quality of the film. also include your recommendations for potential viewers.

7) Close your review by giving a 1-10 rating, with 10 as the highest score and 1 as the lowest.

* RE-READ, EDIT AND SPELL CHECK YOUR WORK BEFORE YOU POST ONTO YOUR BLOG!!!


****Also:

1. Your 3 Movie Commentary Paragraphs
   
1. Remember the 3rd commentary paragraph includes a Venn Diagram and Mini- Essay comparing and contrasting the movie and the Watts Article Packet

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT (FRIDAY, MARCH 14TH)

Watts Essay Assignment

1. MARK UP THE TEXT of the Watts Article you found on the internet.
2. Develop 1 to 3 Discussion question from marking up the text.
3. Using this article as well as your Watts Article Packet, write a 4-6 Paragraph Essay response to this question:
4. “What factors led to the current gang situation in Watts and Why has it spread across the country?”

All DUE TUESDAY, MARCH 11th

Notes and Student Examples - Quotations and Paraphrasing

Notes: Quotations and Paraphrasing (concrete details)

Quotations - passage matches source word for word and identifies original author with a citation ( “quotation marks ”)

Paraphrasing - putting the passage into your own words. Still identify original author.

Quotations:

* * Put “ ” around what you are borrowing word for word from the source.
* Surround “ ” with correct punctuation. “ ” introduced or followed by said, observed, etc. need a comma.
* Commas/periods ordinarily go inside “ ”.
* Period follows “ ” when sentence ends with a citation in parentheses ( ).
* !, ? can be inside or outside “ ”. If you are asking the question, put ? outside.

Paraphrasing Example
I think that reading #3 of the Watts Article was a very informational piece. I never knew that there were 30,000 gangs in American and with 800,000 members, in 2,500 communities across the United States.

Quotation Example
Eva always thought to never go against “your own people, your own blood.” Eva felt guilty though because Paco murdered some boy. She had to go against her own. She had to because she felt guilty. She thought of her mother when she looked into the boy’s mother’s eyes. She remembered when her father and brother were going to jail. She kept thinking to herself, “how does it feel to be sending an innocent person to prison?” That made her think of her father and how he went to jail. I think that Eva did the right thing because if it was here she would not want to go to jail for something she did not even do. She went against her people but she did the right thing.

Watts Essay Assignment

Watts Essay Assignment

MARK UP THE TEXT of the Watts Article you found on the internet

Develop 2 or 3 Discussion Questions from marking up this text (How or Why ?’s)

Give a 4 paragraph Essay Response to one of these Questions.

All 3 DUE MONDAY, MARCH 10th

Developing Final Version of Gang Analysis Survey and Beginning Watts Article Essay

Part 1: Group Gang Analysis Survey

Directions:
1. Open up a word document

2. Type in a minimum of TEN questions from the ones your group brainstormed together (You must have at least TEN QUALITY questions to receive full credit!)

3. You may copy and paste the below example of a gang analysis survey template or make your own template in the word document.

4. Print out a copy of your survey and give it to me to approve.

Sample Survey Template

Academy of Environmental Sciences

8th Grade Literature

Gang Analysis Survey

Administered by: Group Members Names

1. Have you ever considered joining a gang?

___Yes

___No


2. What reasons do you think lead people to join gangs?
(Check all that apply)
___Protection
___Respect
___Love
___Friendship
___Peer Pressure
___Fear
___Money
___Other


Part 2: Running Project - Finding your own Watts News Article

1.Find a News Article online on the current gang situation in Watts, California.

2. Get my approval on the news article and print it out.

3. Develop 1-3 Discussions Questions (similar to the ones we did in class) on your news article and post these on your blog.

Article Examples:

"Two arrested in Watts killing linked to feuding local gangs"

Watts Gang Task Force Making Life Safer for the Community