Thursday, June 16

Welcome, welcome to film class!

Today you need to complete the following before we begin watching Forrest Gump at 8:30ish...

1) Living History Research Cards.
You should have already completed five of these.
Required Topics for Your Project:

1. Joseph McCarthy- McCarthyism
2. Civil Rights Movement
3. Vietnam War
4. Assassination of John F. Kennedy
5. HIV/ AIDS

Now, you need to choose SEVEN (7) MORE topics to complete a research card on.

Possible Topics for Your Project: (Not in order)

-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Cold War
-Emmett Till’s murder
-Malcolm X
-Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
-George Wallace, Governor of Alabama
-The “Little Rock Nine”
-Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
-Hippie Culture (Music, Clothing, Beliefs)
-War Protests
-The Space Race
-Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
-Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
-Ronald Reagan/ Reaganomics
-The Korean War
-The Falling of the Berlin Wall/ Fall of Communism/ Breakup of Soviet Union
-Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
-Woodstock, 1969
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Technological Advances of the Time Period
-Disco Music/Culture
-John Lennon’s Murder


Remember, these 12 research cards will become a PowerPoint which is your project for the movie Forrest Gump.

2) Journal
Just a reminder - at the end of the movie today, you will be asked the same question as yesterday.
What historical people, events, or places did you see during the movie?