Vince Luca is pretty much like any teenage boy. He has a best friend who lives vicariously through him, dating, participating in school sports, and driving a car. However, that's about where his normal life stops. You see, Vince's family has a secret which continues to invade the normal life that Vince craves. His father is the mob boss of a very large mafia family with hopes of Vince soon joining in the business. But Vince has other plans which soon involves a girl and just not any girl. Her father just happens to be the FBI agent that is trying to take down Vince's father. Son of the Mob is an exciting novel that we will be reading for the rest of the quarter.
Before we began reading from the novel, students were introduced to a brief history of the Mafia. After learning about the mafia, students were asked to form groups to create their own mafia family and to write a manual for new initiates. They had to choose a crime, a front, new terms for the leader names, 10 target language terms, hits, and a structure of command. Each group had to explain each function and write it out for their mafia manuals. Each manual included pictures and all the information was held within a book cover.
Here are a few videos the students viewed during our mafia history discussions.
Here are a few videos the students viewed during our mafia history discussions.