Essential Question

How have the events of the 20th Century decades impacted life in the United States today?

Objective

Students will be assigned a specific decade and required to research people, events, sports, fashions, music, and inventions and explain how these have helped form the country that we live in today.

Assessement

• Brochure
• Oral group presentation
• Power Point

Key Words and Dewey Numbers

Print Resources

• UXL American Decades - 10 vols. - R 973.91
• American Decades - 10 vols. - R 973.91 U
• Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms; pop culture of 20th Century America - 5 vols R 306 B
• Sports in America - 8 vols. - 796 B
• Fashions of a Decade - 1920s  through 1990s - 391 C
• The 1940s from WWII to Jackie Robinson - 973.9 F
• The 1950s from the Korean War to Elvis - 973.92 F
• The 1960s for the Vietnam War to Flower Power - 973.92 F
• The 1970s from Watergate to Disco - 973.92 F
• The 1980s from Ronald Reagan to MTV - 973.92 F
• Cultural History of the U.S. - 1940s through 1990s - 973.92 K
• 20th Century Music - 1920s through 1990s - 780 H
• The Roaring Twenties - 973.91 S
• An Album of the Fifties - 973.92 L
• An Album of the Sixties - 973.92 E
• 20th Century Pop Culture - 1950s through 1990s - 973.92 E

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Online Databases

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Websites

• Century Home
• American Cultural History
• Chico High School
• Decades: A Study of 20th Century
• Info Please
• Fashion Through the Decades
• Decades Timeline
• Crazy Fads    
• Wikipedia Decades
• Pocantico Hills School
• 1920s
• 1930s
• 1950s
• 1970s
• 1980s

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