A Divided
General Information:
Cynthia P. Bramson
Workshop Location: Timberstone Junior High
Title of Action Plan: 10th Grade Research/Oral
Presentation Project
Grade Level: 10th grade
Curriculum Area: Social Studies /20th century
American History
Specific Topic: A Divided
Content Information:
This
period in our history is known was a time of division among many
Americans. We have learned that
Select an event, creation, object, issue or trend that
shows a division/controversy within our country that resulted in at least one
of the following:
A division between groups of people
Divided opinions of many Americans
A rejection of typical American values standards or ways of
doing things.
Your example must have taken place between
1965 to 1975.
Here are a few areas that might simulate some ideas. Look through history books, ask adults or
seek out other sources to give you some ideas.
Fashion/Styles Sport stories/trends Music
Sexual values Marriage/Family Dating Practices
Political events Fads TV/ Movies
Laws/Famous Crimes Language Women’s rights
Environmental issues Educational Practices Drug usage
Technology advances Race relations and issues Religious issues
Once you have decided on a
project report it to the teacher so there will not be any duplication of
topics. People requesting it first will
have the priority.
Your job is to prepare a 4
to 6 minute oral presentation. Content
should include:
Part 1:
Describe your event, creation, object, or trend. To
help you in this use some of the visual aids listed below.
Part 2: Describe how this was an example and resulted in at
least on of the following:
·
A division between groups of people
·
Divided opinions among many Americans
·
A rejection of typical American values, standards or
ways of doing things
In your presentation make
sure you use one or more of the following visual aids;
Video clips (VHS or DVD)
to show picture transparencies from books or magazines to show on the overhead,
PowerPoint presentations, role-playing, props or costumes.
Grading: This project is worth 40points. The rubric is divided into 4 10-point
sections.
1. Description
of your project -When
it occurred- relevant information-
Description of the circumstances around your topic.
2. Creativity
3. Answers
of how this was an example of a divided
4. Oral
presentation skills
Listed
below are a selection of some of the materials we have
on your topics. This is not a complete
list so you may need to go back to SIRS Researcher Database; Annals
of American History, Encyclopedia Britannica, the library catalog
or an Internet search.
Books
Books can not be checked
out until Day 4 of project. We want our
materials to be available to all of the classes.
General books about the time period
Events That Shaped The Century.
Edited by the Editors of Time-Life.
Time Life Books, 1997 Call # 973.9 E
Time of Transition,
The 70’s. Edited by the Editors of
Time-Life.
Life Books, 1998. Call
# 973.924 T
Marnam, Andrew
and Frank Parise. Follies and Foibles: a View of
20th Century
Fads.
Rollin,
Lucy. Twentieth Century Teen Culture by the
Decades; a Reference Guide.
Stewart, Gail B. The 1970’s.
This
Fabulous Century. Edited by the
Editors of Time-Life.
Books, 1969. Call# REF 973.9 T
Wolfe, Tom. The Purple
Decade: a Reader.
Call # 814.54 W
Civil Rights and Race Relations
Carson, Clayborne. The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader:
Documents,
Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the
Black Freedom Struggle, 1954- 1990.
Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin.
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil
Rights Movement.
Freedom’s Children: Young
Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. [S.I.]
Putnam, 1993.
Powledge, Fred. Free
At Last?: The Civil rights Movement and the People Who
Made It. Boston:
Little, Brown, 1991. Call # 323.4 P
Fashions
Connikie. Yvonne. The Fashions of a Decade. The
1960s.
1992. Call # 391 C
Herald, Jacqueline. The Fashions of a Decade.
The 1970s.
1992. Call
# 391 H
Bills,
University Press, 1982. Call # 378.1 B
Michener,
Crest, 1971. Call # 378.1 M
Morrison,
Joan and Robert K. Morrison.
From Camelot to
Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it.
1987.
Call # 973.923 M
Music
Rees, Dafydd and Luke Crampton. Encyclopedia of Rock Stars.
DK Publishing, 1996. Call
# 784.5 R
Rock Films: a Viewer’s
Guide to Three Decades of Musicals, Concerts,
Documentaries
and Soundtracks 1955-1986.
Publications, 1987. Call
#791.43 S
Supreme Court Decisions
Mauro, Tony.
Dewey Numbers: 344.73 973.9 323.4
791.43
Subject Headings:
Resources from Annals of American
History
Primary Source Materials
Southern resistance to
federal programs extending civil rights to African Americans in the late 1950s
and in the 1960s seemed to a casual observer to be monolithic and total. But in
fact there were cracks in the wall of the South's distrust of measures that it
considered punitive rather than just. Desegregation of schools did not proceed
quickly, but some schools were integrated; public services.
Black Power,
What has been called the
Civil Rights Revolution took many forms in the twenty-two years between the end
of World War II and 1967. At first a movement to obtain such reforms as
desegregation of the armed forces, it quickly concentrated on school
desegregation, an effort that won a legal victory with the Supreme Court
decisions of 1954 and 1955. Desegregation of public
accommodations.
Equal Opportunity in Education, Coleman,
James S.,1966
When the Supreme Court in
its landmark decision in 1954 called for the integration of the nation's public
schools, on the grounds that segregated schools were inherently unequal, it
seemed to some commentators that the problem of unequal educational opportunity
in the
On Civil Disorders, 1968
During the summer of 1967
nearly 150 cities in the United States experienced civil disorders, of which
the most severe were the July riots in Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit,
Michigan. In their wake President Lyndon Johnson established a National
Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, with Governor Otto Kerner
of
During January and
February 1969 a massive oil leakage from the Union Oil Company's off-shore
drilling installations near
Memorandum on the Proposed Equal Rights
Amendment, 1970
The women's liberation
movement had achieved enough momentum by 1970 to push for an Equal Rights
Amendment to the Constitution to outlaw legal discriminations against women. In
March 1970 the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women drew up a
lengthy memorandum, reprinted here in part, detailing the need for and nature
of such an amendment. The amendment was, in itself, not a new idea:
No action of President
Richard Nixon's first term aroused such vehement response as the American
invasion of
Drug Abuse, Linkletter,
Art,1971
The narcotics problem came
into public consciousness in the late 1960s as the “drug culture,” an aspect of
the youth movement, or the “counter-culture,” as it was frequently called. The
use of the hallucinatory drug LSD, promoted by
The Energy Crisis,
Beginning about the
Memorial Day weekend in 1973, and continuing on through the summer, Americans
were gradually made aware of an impending energy crisis when gas stations in
some parts of the country ran short of gas and oil. Many independent dealers,
unable to obtain supplies from the refineries, were
forced out of business. The reasons for
these shortages were difficult to unravel.
Web Sites
Timeline of the Twentieth Century
This web site is a wealth of information organized by decades and by subject
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decsg.html
American Cultural History - The Twentieth Century
The purpose of these pages is to present a series of web
guides on the decades of the twentieth century. ...
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
Yahoo! Directory 20th Century History
20th Century History Directory > Arts > Humanities
> History > By
Time Period > 20th Century.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/
20th
century decades
... Television: the First 75 Years. Time100: the Most
Important People of
the 20th Century. Time Magazine. Twentieth Century History
by Decades. ...
http://www.westmont.dupage.k12.il.us/jrhigh/MC/decades.html
SIRS Researcher Database Articles
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Austin American-Statesman (
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“ The Civil Rights Movement: A Press Perspective”
Human Rights Journal Fall 2001;
17K, SIRS Researcher
The Historical Security Council--1967
Issues at AMUN July 2002;
35K, SIRS Researcher
'I'll Go First':
School Desegregation in Carrollton Began with a...”
Rising Expectations: 1960-69
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004
; 7K,
SIRS Researcher
“ Scenes from the '60s: One Radical's Story”
American
“The 60s and the 90s: Americans' Political, Moral, and
Religious..”.
Brookings Review Spring 1999;
18K, SIRS Researcher
1968: No Matter Who You Were, It Changed Your World
“30 Years After Year of Rage 1968”
Rocky Mountain News (
“ Two Fists, One Vision”
Third Force July/Aug.
1996; 19K, SIRS Researcher
“Where Women
Stand”
Christian Science Monitor