Your new skills for this assignment are as follows: Research the representation

Your new skills for this assignment are as follows:
Research the representation of Chicano culture in texts we have read and viewed and heard (i will explain these)
Learn both how to use and how to cite in MLA format summary in a research paper.
Practice the skills of effective interview and integrate the results into a research paper.
Note: This is a research paper. It is worth twice as much as any of the previous essays, and it should be about twice as long as your other essays and use quoted material from no fewer than ten sources!!!!!
Assignment:
Write a research paper examining the representation of Chicanos in popular culture.
Use the film Children of Giant (as well as the film Giant) and the Villanueva poem to examine the depiction of Chicanos in mainstream Hollywood films of the 20th Century.
and
Use the film Coco, the comic strips of Lalo Alacaraz, the TV series The Casagrandes, and the Ask a Mexican! columns of Gustavo Arellano to examine how Chicanos are helping mainstream films, television shows, and newspapers redefine the representation of Chicanos.
and
Any other aspect of media representation of Chicano culture and identity, including the film Zoot Suit.
Please remember the three additional optional sources I provided you with:
1) pocho.com
2) the play Interview with the Mexican
3) the Times podcasts about Chicano issues (hosted by Gustavo Arellano.
(please use these)
A Sample Essay
If you want to know what an A paper looks like, there is one right here: Sample_Research_Paper.pdf Download Sample_Research_Paper.pdf
ALSO PLEASE USE THE TIFEIFE FORMAT!!!!!!
TIFEIFE stands for
Topic- write a topic
Introduce- introduce the topic
Fact- quote
Explain-explain the quote
Introduce-introduce another topic
Fact-another quote
Explain- explain the second quote
This is crucial for my essay!!
Rubric:
The paper is about the representation of Chicanos in media. = 20 points
Research sources are from the SCC Library databases unless approved in advance. = 20 points
Works Cited page is made using NoodleTools. = 20 points
Each body paragraph contains facts from two different sources: quotes, paraphrase, and summary = 20 points
The interview of our guest speaker is a correctly cited source: 20 points
The paper has an introduction with elephant hook. = 20 points
The paper has unity of title, thesis, topic sentences, and conclusion. = 20 points
The paper uses MLA format header and in-text citation. = 20 points
The paper is written in formal academic English. = 20 points
The paper has been revised for content and organization and edited for grammar and spelling. = 20 points
Example:
Zoot Suit Riots/Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case
Use the film Zoot Suit as an example of the Chicano point of view of events in Los Angeles in the 1940’s.
Watch the “Zoot Suit Riots” (Links to an external site.) segment of the “War and Peace” episode of The Latino Americans for background on the Zoot Suit Riots.
The article “Zoot Suit Riots: The SLeepy Lagoon Murder Case That Helped Spur the WWII Era Los Angeles Race Riots” (Links to an external site.) by Ben Baeder for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune can be found on the Proquest database and is a good background for the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. (Note: This link does not work on all browsers. If it does not, go to the SCC library webpage and click on “All Databases”, then click on National Newspaper Core (5th link down) and enter Sleepy Lagoon murder into the search box. The article will be the 4th one listed.)
For primary source documents, search “Sleepy Lagoon” (Links to an external site.) at calisphere.org (Links to an external site.) and you will find 100 text documents, 90 photos from the trials, and a video interview with Luis Valdez.
Use as much or as little as you like to answer the question: Why is it important that creative authors like Valdez who have a Chicano point of view keep stories like the Sleepy Lagoon trial and the Zoot Suit riots in the public’s memory?