1980s

Yikes. That's all I have to say. Time to bring out those acid-washed pegged jeans, leg warmers and BIG hair! Come looking your 80s best for our Vanguard Battle of the Bands!!

Apprentice

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of Us, volume 10, chapters 38-42

2. Study a map of the Persian Gulf area and print for your notebook page.

3. Write the definitions to the following terms from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on note cards:

• AIDS
• Tiananmen Square
• Iran-Contra Affair

4. On your fold-out timeline in your history binder, look up the dates and label the important political events for the 1980s, including: the John Lennon's assassination, Mt. St. Helen's erupts, Soviets shoot down Korean airliner, U.S. embassy is bombed in Beruit, Hijacking of TWA flight 847, Titanic found, Challenger explodes, Chernobyl, Mir Space Station launched, Berlin Wall falls, Valdez oil spill, Tiananmen Square massacre, world wide web invented, and Persian Gulf War.

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your timeline in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

5. Create a notebook page or two for your History binder on the events from the 1980s. Be creative and artistic. Include a summary of the chapters you read and include any applicable pictures and maps. Write a paragraph or two about your conclusions about these events. What do you think about them? Also, print or draw some pictures and write short bios on the following people: Indira Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. Bush, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sally Ride, and Ronald Reagan. (These are also found in The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.) 

Journeyman

1. Read Texas vs. Johnson decision
There is a lot going on right now in the news regarding disrespecting the flag. Find a current article on this issue and tell us your opinion. 

2. So, for our 80's party in Journeyman on the 18th, we are going to start off with a bang. The 1980s brought the birth of the music video (MTV) and we are going to celebrate by making some of our own :) Really...You're assignment is to make a music video. You can either do it solo, or get a group of other Vanguardians to be in your band and do it with you. You don't have to sing or play the song, just lip sync. Make sure to use awesome costumes and eighties visual effects :) Do a good job. This is a battle of the bands, and the winner (according to the judges) will have their wildest dreams come true. (As long as their wildest dreams consist of a candy bar or something similar). So, here are the song choices: 

Let me know what song you would like to do, and I'll put it on the blog.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun--Cyndi Lauper (HARRISON SISTERS)

Beat It--Michael Jackson (LUKE CLOWARD, MEGAN HALLEY, CALEB RICHARDS)

Every Breathe You Take--The Police (SUMMER HALLEY & AFTON CLOWARD)

Eye of the Tiger--Survivor (PORTER SEGO)

Jump--Van Halen (ADRIANNA PULLEY)

Total Eclipse of the Heart--Bonnie Tyler

Endless Love--Diana Ross/Lionel Richie

So Emotional--Whitney Houston

Paradise City--Guns 'n' Roses

You Better Love Somebody--Rick Springfield

The Final Countdown--Europe (HANNAH COLBY, SAMANTHA HUNT, MACK FONTANO)

With or Without You--U2
Holding out for a Hero--Bonnie Tyler (MORFORD SISTERS)

IMPORTANT: Save your final video as either a .mov (Quicktime file), .avi, or a .wmv file, and bring it with you to class on a usb thumb drive. If you need to borrow a thumb drive, please let Brother Halley know next Thursday. Thanks guys! I hope you have super fun with this :) 

Master

Read Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang