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  Name: Michael Beckman
  School: Cleveland Hts. High School, Cleveland Hts., OH
  Workshop Location: Kent State University, March 9, 2004
  Title of Companion Action Plan: The Sixties: Formative Decade
  Grade Levels: 10th and 11th grades
  Curriculum/Subject Area: Social Studies/ U.S. History
  Specific Topic: Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Aspects of the Sixties
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  Summary: Resources search on political, cultural, and economic aspects of the sixties
  Dewey Numbers/Subject Headings: World History 909.82; US History 973.9; Social Studies: 331, 332; Art ; Film 791.3Literature Fashion 391; Fiction
   
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  Reference Books
    Chronicle of America . London: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. A year by year accounting of various events - political, cultural, economic - in a newspaper-like format, with yearly timelines.
    Working Americans: 1880-1999. Derks, Scott. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, various dates. A 4-volume series on American life, covering The Working Class (Vol. I, 2000), The Middle Class (Vol. II, 2001), The Upper Class (Vol. III, 2001), Their Children (Vol. IV,2002) and Americans at War (Vol. V, 2003). Each volume is organized by decades, with essays, economic figures, advertisements, and vignettes of family life.
    U.S.A. Sixties. Danbury,CT: Grolier International, 2001. A multi-volume set covering all aspects of the 1960s in U.S. History.
    St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast. Detroit: St. James Press (The Gale Group), 2002. A multi-volume encyclopedia covering popular culture.
    The Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States 1860 - 1999. Derks, Scott. Lakeville,CT: Grey House Publishing, 2000.
    Fashions of a Decade: The 1960s.  Connikie, Yvonne. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
    Cinema Year by Year 1894 - 2001. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001.
    Day by Day: The Sixties. Parker, Thomas and Douglas Nelson. New York: Facts on File. 1983. A day-by-day listing of events that occurred in the world, and in the United States. Categories included Politics & Social Issues; Foreign Policy & Defense; Economy & Environment; Science, Technology & Nature; and Culture, Leisure & Life Style.
    The American Century. Evans, Harold. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Essays, case studies and lots of pictures make this a favorite for reports.
   
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  Books - Non-Fiction
    The 1960s. Rielly, Edward. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Part of the American Popular Culture through History series.
    20th Century Pop Culture: The 60s. Epstein, Dan. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001
    The 1960s Cultural Revolution. McWilliam, John. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
    The ABC-CLIO Companion to The 1960s Counterculture in America. Hamilton, Neil. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-Clio, 1997.
    The 1960s. Hurley, Jennifer. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Part of Greenhaven's Opposing Viewpoints series, this volume offers essays on the 1960s from a wide variety of viewpoints.
    The Vietnam War: The Home Front: Americans Protest the War. Kallen, Stuart. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2001.
    The Vietnam Antiwar Movement in American History. McCormick, Anita Louise. Berkeley Hts. , NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002
   
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  Web Sites for Students
    The Sixties - brought to you by Chico High School Library. A massive collection of links compiled by Chico High School Library. In the first section there is a heavy emphasis on media and cultural happenings
    American Cultural History - the Sixties. A collection of links from Kingwood College Library. Includes Fads, Fashions, Theater, Film, Television, Technology and People
    Sixties Web. Events , hit records, and movies
    The Sixties Project. Posters and buttons from various movements in the sixties. Also check out the primary source documents
    Sixties Central. Information about the fads, fashions and famous people of the 1960's, with a focus on sixties fashion design and fashion designers
    Hippie Haven. Includes "What is a Hippie?"
    TV Guide Cover Gallery. Use the Search Box to find TV guide covers by year or show or star
    The Psychedelic Sixties. Books, literature, posters from the sixties
    Racial Discrimination and Civil Rights in the 1960s USA. A list of links to various sites on this topic.
    Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law. Chronicles her personal journey through the sixties counterculture, 1965-1971.
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   Web Resources for Teachers
    Celebrate the Century:Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1960s. A great introductory lesson for the unit on the 60s, using stamps from the U.S. Postal Service. Covers important events in politics, technology, sports, popular culture
    Turbulent Times of the 60s. An excellent 10 unit lesson on the 60s. Although prepared for 7/8 grades, this could easily adapted to a senior high school class, particularly if the sequence of instruction puts U.S. History in the 10th grade.
    Module: The Tumultuous 60s. A lesson plan focusing on primary source documents from the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, New York City. This lesson plan is in the process of being added to continually, and the site provides other lesson plans for U.S. History.
    The Sixties Project. A site full of resources and ideas for teaching about the 60s and the Viet Nam War.
    The Sixties. A "you were there" project. Students are asked to assume one of four personalities - a parent of young adults, a movement activists, a reporter covering the U.S. war in Vietnam, a college professor - and using material found in print and electronic resources, write a paper dealing with the questions posed in the lesson plan. A complete idea that can be easily adapted for high school. From Eileen Walsh, Bemidji State University.
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  InfOhio Resources
    Annals of American History. Over 50 primary source documents which can be incorporated into the lesson plan for units on the 60s.
    American National Biography. Biographies of a wide variety of historical figures, with photographs and cross-references.
    Encyclopedia Britannica. A great source for more information on specific subjects. Includes video and audio files. In additions, your Search will return web sites that you can you use for further information
    Amico: Art and Architecture. Use this InfOhio database to find art works created during the 1960s. Use the "Creation Date" search, and enter a year.
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Media Resources
Young Blood. Burlington, VT: WGBH Educational Foundation : WGBH Boston Video [distributor], 1999. Part of the People's Century series, this video looks at the events of the 1960s. A teacher's guide to viewing the video, with questions and activities, is available at The People's Century web site.
The Sixties. Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [S.l.] Annenberg/CPB , c2000 . The Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and Watergate; Lyndon Johnson, Stokely Carmichael, Fanny Lou Hamer and others of the era. Includes first-person narratives and rich array of archival photos, documents, and footage from Library of Congress and National Archives and Records Administration.
History of the 20th Century, 1960-1964. Volume 7. MPI Home Video, 1992. Highlights include: The world lives with the threat of nuclear weapons; Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech; dreams of Camelot die when John F. Kennedy is assassinated; Hitchcock's classic thriller, "Psycho" debuts; John Glenn is the first American to orbit the earth.
History of the 20th Century, 1965-1969. Volume 8. MPI Home Video, 1992. Highlights include: Nixon and Agnew win a close election; protestors fight the war at home; violence rocks the 1968 Democratic Convention; an assassin's bullet kills Martin Luther King, Jr.; more people try LSD; the Apollo II crew lands on the moon.
Eyes on the Prize. Alexandria, VA: Blackside Video, distributed by PBS and Turner Home Entertainment, copyright 1985. America's Civil Rights Years, Volumes 1-6 (1954-1965); American at the Racial Crossroads, Volumes 7-14 (1965-1985).
The Legacy of Vietnam: Learning the Lessons of War. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2000. This multi-part NewsHour program provides a powerful retrospective on the Vietnam War and its ongoing influence, from both the American and Vietnamese points of view. Special attention is given to the war’s long-term impact on the U.S. military, the news media, American protest movements, and the inhabitants of Vietnam. Long-time journalists Morley Safer and Haynes Johnson; Representative Bobby Rush; the Reverend James Wallis; former Viet Cong commander Vuong Tuan Kiet; civilian and military protesters; American and Vietnamese war veterans; and others speak with eloquence and passion on an event that divided the U.S. and united Vietnam.
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. New York: HBO Home Video, 1987. An authentic account of the Vietnam War, as reflected in actual letters written home by the men and women who served there, read over films of combat and home-movie footage of daily life in the war zone, and backed up by modern pop and rock music. This is a powerful and moving video, which gives life of the experience of the Vietnam War.
    Woodstock : 3 Days of Peace & Music, Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1994, c1969. This videotape is considered one of the best concert films ever made. The Woodstock Concert is considered the seminal cultural event of the 1960s The director's cut, a widescreen edition, has 30 minutes of previously unseen performances restored. Note: The video is rated "R".
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