LIST OF EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment and amount of extra credit for each assignment. These videos are in the library.

• People like us: social class in America
• Social class issues in the U.S.A.
• Still Killing Us Softly, 10 points
• The Color of Fear
• Unequal education: failing our children
• Down and out in America
• The lessons of Littleton
• Close to home: portrait of addiction
• Learning to hate
• The heart of hatred
• Free speech for sale
• What can we do about violence?
• Malcolm X Make it Plain
• American Dream
• Street Life The Invisible Family
• Child Abuse
• Date Rape Prevention
• The Class Divided, 10 points
• Racism 101, 10 points
• Kids and the Race, 10 points
• Harlan County, 10 points
• Berkeley in the Sixties, 10 points
• Buffalo Creek Revisited, 10 points
• The Business of America, 10 points
• Coalmining Women, 10 points
• Controlling Interest, 10 points
• Global Assembly Line,  10 points
• Life in the Ghetto,  10 points
• Mad River: Hard Times,  10 points
• Minorities in the Classroom, 10 points
• Mud Creek Clinic,  10 points
• Racism 101, 10 points
• Rape Culture, 10 points
• Sexual Harassment, 10 points
• Suffer the Children, 10 points
• Trouble Behind, 10 points
• Violence in the Home, 10 points
• The Wall Street Connection, 10 points
• Watsonville on Strike,10 points
• What's Good for GM,10 points
• Date Rape Prevention, 10 points
• New Adult Children of Alcoholics, 10 points
• Eyes on the Prize,10 points for each part
• Any of the John Bradshaw Video's 10 points for each one of the series
• Unequal Schools
• Skin Deep
• Eating Disorders
• Malcolm X
• Racism and Anti-racism
• Street life: inside America's gangs
• The second city: inside the world's largest jail
• In search of law and order
• The end of the beginning?
• Beyond killing us softly: the impact of media images on women and girls
• School crimes
• Blink

Blockbuster Movies

The following are movies that you will have to rent from a local video store

• The video movies by Spike Lee, "Get on the Bus," "School Daze," "Malcolm X," "Jungle Fever," or "Do the Right Thing," 10 points for each one
• The video movie "American History X"
• The video movie "Matewan," 10 points
• The video movie "Roger and Me," 10 points
• The video movie "The Big One" 10 points
• The video movie "American Dream" 10 points
• The video movie "Bob Roberts," 10 points
• The video movie "Modern Times," 10 points
• The video movie "The Grapes of Wrath," 10 points
• The video movie "Normae Rae," 10 points
• The video movie "The Mission," 10 points
• The video movie "El Salvador," 10 points
• The video movie "El Norte,"10 points
• The video movie "Hoop Dreams," 10 points
• The video movie "Tucker," 10 points
• The video movie "A World Apart" 10 points
• The video movie "The Great Santini" 10 points
• The video movie "Full Monty" 10 points
• The video movie "Romero"
• The video movie "The Color Purple"
• The video movie "American Beauty"
• I will also give you 10 extra credit points for a one page description of any chapter in our textbook that we did not cover in class.