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US  History II  “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Assignment
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media type="custom" key="749749"  United States .  ** A note about intellectual honesty: Students should avoid plagiarism in the course of completing this assignment. Therefore, you should never cut and paste text from a website and post on your wikispace. All entries should be written using your own words and resources used should be cited when necessary, for example, when using quotes.     4-  All the assigned topics were included in chronological order. The summaries are perfect with the date, and demonstrate that the topics were researched in a complete manner. Three visuals are creatively completed with the topic, date, historical importance and representational image. The summaries are neat, and demonstrate perfect writing conventions. Sources are cited when necessary and all members of the group have contrbuted to the research and building of the wikispace.  3- A majority of the assigned topics were included in chronological order. The summaries are correct <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">with the date, and demonstrate that the topics were well researched. Three visuals are completed with the topic, date, historical importance and representational image. The summaries are fairly neat, and demonstrate writing conventions. Sources are cited when necessary and all members have contributed to the research and building of the wikispace. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"> 2-  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">Some of the assigned topics were included in chronological order. The summaries are somewhat correct with some dates, and demonstrate that the topics were partially researched. Some visuals are partially completed with the topic, date, historical importance and representational image. The summaries are somewhat neat, and demonstrate some writing conventions. Lack of citing sources has resulted in plagiarism. Not all members of the group have contributed to the research and/or building of the wikispace. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">1- The assigned topics were not all included and are not in chronological order. The summaries are incorrect without the date, and demonstrate that the topics were researched in an incomplete manner. Visuals are not completed with the topic, date, historical importance and representational image. The summaries are not neat, and demonstrate poor writing conventions. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">Standard 3, Benchmark 1: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'"> The student understands the economic boom and social transformation of postwar
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">After listening to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, you will be placed in a group and assigned verses of the song. You will research the historical importance of the people, places and events found within your verses on the lyric sheet. For each topic, you will create and edit an entry on your wikispace page in which you will include relevant information about the historical importance of each event in your assigned verse(s) in chronological order. For three of the events in your stanza, you will create a a more indepth report for those three topics. You should create a broader bio or description of the event and include pictures, drawings, maps, videos... The wikispace page will be presented in class by the authors and will count as a test grade. The presenters should be prepared to answer questions about the topics they have researched. All group members should contrbute to the research and building of the wikispace page.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-underline: none"> **__ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-underline: none">Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire ” __**<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-underline: none"> [|1949-1989] <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-underline: none"> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-underline: none"> Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

__Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye__

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin__, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez__

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Little Rock__, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo__

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman__, Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say__

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Birth Control__, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore__

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