Who's
Who of the 1960's
Barbra Hartings
Centerville Workshop |
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| John
F. Kennedy, President of the United States,
1961-1963. |
Using
a wide variety of resources, your group will collect a
veritable wealth of information on that radical time,
the 60's. You will organize all this info. into a dictionary,
with the following requirements. There are many choices
and options, but remember,
Your 1960's Dictionary must:
1. contain all the hypertext terms in the song. 2. be
in alphabetical order. 3. be in complete sentences. 4.
take at least 2 pieces of information from every category of
resources. 5. contain enough information that the reader
will understand the importance of this person or event
both in the context of the 60's, but also through the past 40
years. 6. have a Works Cited page at the
end.
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First,
access the lyrics from Billy Joel's "We didn't start
the Fire."
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Category
1: Reference Collection: Select from these resources or others
available in the LMC:
Daniel, Clifton, editor.
Chronicle of the 20th Century. NY: Dorling Kindersley
Publishing Inc., 1995.
Hamilton, Neil A. 1960s
Counterculture in America. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.,
1997.
Larkin, Colin, editor. Encyclopedia of
Popular Music. Eight volumes. NY: Grove Dictionaries, Inc.,
1998.
Parker, Thomas and Douglas Nelson. Day by
Day: The Sixties. Two volumes. NY: Facts on File Publications,
1983.
Salzman, Jack, ed. African-American Experience:
Selections from the five-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of
African-American Culture and History. NY: Macmillan Library
Reference, 1998.
U.S.A. Sixties. Six volumes. Danbury
CT: Grolier Educational, 2001.
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Category
2: Yearbooks, Almanacs, etc.:
World Book Yearbook.
Annual publication: from 1960-1969. Chicago: Field
Enterprises, 1960-1969.
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3: Non-fiction Collection (these are only a few of the books
on the shelves; feel free to explore!)
Dougan, Clark,
Stephen Weiss, et al. Nineteen Sixty-Eight. The Vietnam
Experience series. Boston: Boston Publishing Co.,
1983.
Fincher, E. B. Vietnam War. NY: Franklin Watts,
1980.
Gow, Catherine Hester. The Cuban Missile Crisis.
World History series. San Diego CA: Lucent Books,
1997.
Kallen, Stuart A., editor. Sixties
Counterculture. History Firsthand series. San Diego CA:
Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2001.
Kearns, Doris. Lyndon
Johnson & the American Dream. NY: Harper & Row Pub.,
1976.
Maga, Timothy. The 1960s: An Eyewitness History.
NY: Facts on File Publications, 2003.
Martin, Waldo E.,
jr. and Patricia Sullivan, editors. Civil Right in the United
States. Two volumes. NY: Macmillan Reference Group,
2000.
McNamara, Robert S. with Brian VanDeMark. In
Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. NY: Times
Books (Random House), 1995.
Milestones of the 20th
Century. Danbury CT: Grolier Educational,
1999.
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Category
4: Periodicals, Indexes
Use the Readers Guides (the dark green books above the
current magazines) to find 2 or more articles.
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5: InfOhio Resources. Go to the InfOhio homepage
(www.infohio.org), and access all sorts of excellent
information from these sites:
(Be sure that your Works
Cited page utilizes the proper format, eg: Clayborne Carson.
"Malcolm X"; American National Biography Online Feb.
2000. Apr 30 2004.
<http://www.anb.org/articles/08/08-01846.html.)
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American
National Biography
(Remember, a person (American) must
be dead to be found here.) |
Annals
of American History
Excellent Primary Source
Documents |
Newsbank
Newspaper
articles covering many years! |
EBSCO
Collections
of hundreds of thousands of magazine, journal, transcripts,
etc. dating back many years!
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FirstGov
Anything
and everything you ever wanted to know about
government! |
Ohio
Historical Society
Collections of articles,
photographs, and memorabilia from all periods of Ohio's
history. |
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6: Find at least 2 pictures from the 1960's period using
either the file of Images in EBSCO, or these collections (Be
certain to give proper credit in your Works Cited
page). |
American
Memory Collection
Millions of photographs of historic
times throughout American History. |
Ohio
Memory Collection
Historic photographs from Ohio's
History |
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| Category
7: LHS Databases |
| Find
at least 2 articles from S.I.R.S. Researcher. |
| Find
at least 2 articles from S.I.R.S. Government
Reporter. |
| and
find at least 2 articles from Gale's Discovering
Series. |
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Category
8: Select at least 2 accurate, non-biased websites from these
listed, or others:
(Be sure that you correctly cite
these resources in your Works Cited page) |
| History
USA 1960-1969 |
| Your
Place in Time |
| U.S.
History, Dept of Labor |
| White
House Website |
| Internet
Public Library Presidents of the U.S. Website |
| American
Cultural History |
| University
of Colorado, Department of American History |
| Vietnam:
The American Experience |
| Freedom:
A History of Us |
| Education
World |
| U.S.
History, 1960's |
| University
of Minnesota: American History Website |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Website |
| We
Shall Overcome |
| Official
Web Site of Malcolm X |
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9: Interview at least 2 persons who were at least teenagers
(babyboomers) during the 1960's.
(These can be family members, neighbors, etc.bpretty
much anyone over 48. Many of our faculty are in this set
(Mrs. Hartings, Mrs. McCarty, Dr. Ison, Mrs. Hayes, Mr.
Charlton, Mr. Merchant, Mr. Kowaleski, Mrs. Nell, Mrs.
Powell, Mrs. Gingerich, Mrs. Short, Mrs. Wertz, Col. Keeling,
Ms. Conrad, Mr. Hoverman, Mrs. Clemens, Mr. Earnhart,
Mrs. Flannery, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Lynch, and others), so
you don't even have to leave the school to do this part.
Be sure to cite these as interviews.)
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| Great
Job!! |
| Congratulations!
By completing your Dictionary of the 1960's, you have
now become familiar with the people and events that made
the 1960's a crucial decade in American History. Be sure
to turn your Dictionary, and your Works Cited in on the
specified date. |
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