AMERICAN HISTORY X-WORKSHEET
JORGE GAITAN CORTES SCHOOL-9th grade
1.Look at the poster and write down six words (more if you
like) that you think of as you look at it. Summarize, in your
words, Lincon’s quote. (It was t the end of the movie)
2.Complete the text with words from the box:
Gang- brothers- murdered- movement- inmates-
influenced- ideology- prison- raped- prevent- truck-
black- story- view- film- path- kills
American History X is a 1998 American drama ______
directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton
(Derek) and Edward Furlong (Dany). The film tells
the______of two ______, Derek (played by Norton)
and Danny (played by Furlong). Their father
is______by a ______drug dealer and Derek is drawn
into the neo-Nazi ______. Derek brutally kills two
black ______ members, whom he catches breaking
into his______, and spends three years in ______.
The story shows how Danny is ______by his older
brother's actions and ______. However, Derek is
______ by white ______ in______and changes his
______of the world. He tries to ______his brother
from going down the same______as he did
3. CORRECT THE SPELLING
1.Their father is merueddr
2.the neo-Nazi tmnvoeme
3.Derek ylbtrual kills two black gang members
4.his older brother's actions and idgoleyo
5.etamsni in prison aperd Derek
6.Derek tries to eeprntv his therobr from going down
the same path
4.Read the quote from the poster. How would you
summarize it in a smaller quote applied to your life?
5.SYNONYM MATCH

1. story a. failure
2 drawn b. stop
3. brutally c. detailed
4. ideology d. pulled
5. prevent e. beliefs
6. graphic f. spellbinding
7. nudity g. tale
8. compelling h. unnatural
9. stilted i. savagely
10. misfire j. nakedness

6.Select the correct option
If Danny doesn’t write a new essay, the principal
Sweeney will
a. Help him with his problems
b. Expel him from school
c. Take him to visit his brother Derek
d. Receive his report about Hitler’s Mein Kampf
If Cameron recruits people to the neonazi gang, he:
a. will recruit the strongest people
b. will recruit white people
c. will recruit the insecure, the angry and the
abandoned ones
d. will recruit violent people
7.TRUE or FALSE. Correct in case it’s necessary

If Derek hangs out with black and Latin men in prison,
he will
a. Receive help from them
b. Sell drugs to them
c. Suffer the consequences with the neo-nazi
inmates
d. Receive help from the principal Sweeney
If Derek becomes mad at his fellow skinheads in jail is
because:
a. They play basketball with black guys
b. They smoke with Mexicans
c. They sell drugs to black guys
d. They buy drugs from Mexicans
If the black guys gang breaks into the Vinyard’s house,
Derek:
a. Will welcome them
b. Will attack them
c. Will run away
d. Will play basketball against them
If Dany testifies, about Derek, in court, Derek:
a. Will be in prison for 3 years
b. Will receive life sentence
c. Will receive benefits in prison
d. Will be free
Danny studies at a private school in a city T F
Derek is the ideological leader of the T F
skinhead gang
Derek’s father died in an accident at his job T F
The nationalist idea of the skinhead gang T F
wants benefits for every person in the
world
In prison Derek discovers his nazi ideology T F
is bullshit in the real life
8.Organize the order of events
__Derek plays basketball with the black guys and wins
the court
__Danny writes an essay about Mein Kampf
__Derek is released from prison
__Derek kills two black guys who were trying to hijack
his truck
__Derek attends to Cameron’s party to quit the gang
__Danny helps a kid who is being bullied in the
bathroom
__Danny’s father is murdered
__Derek realizes the Nazis deal drugs with the Mexicans
in prison
__Danny is murdered in the school’s bathroom
__Derek confronts Cameron for manipulating people
for his racist cause

I Derek leaves the prison in one piece is because

a. He pays to neo-Nazis and black gangs
b. He sells drugs in the prison
c. He has a good behavior
d. He receives help from his black friend Lamont