Transcript The Outsiders WebQuest

Welcome to the Sixties!
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Choose a partner and get a laptop.
Login, open Google Chrome, and navigate to
my webpage.
Open the Tab for “Outsiders WebQuest”
Complete the WebQuest with your partner.
One person should navigate through the
websites and gather information while the
other records the answers to the questions.
We will go over the answers tomorrow.
HAVE FUN!
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You will be assigned a group of slides on
which you will become an expert. Take
careful notes on the chart provided. In 15
minutes you will be assigned to another
group. You will teach that second group all
you have learned.
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Who was S.E. Hinton? When was The
Outsiders first published? How old was the
author when the novel was written?
http://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hinton-S-E.html
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What can you tell me about the economy in
1966? How have the prices of homes, gas,
and food changed?
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
http://auroraontheweb.com/east66/1966/66econ.html
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What was fashion like in the 1960’s?
What is a madras shirt?
http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/fashion_costume_culture/M
odern-World-1946-1960/Rock-n-Roll-Style.html
http://www.ivy-style.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/saksmadras.jpg
Elvis Pompadour Hairstyle
Group wearing Madras Shirts
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What was going on in the world in the 1960s?
More specifically, what was going on in the
United States?
http://www.bbhq.com/boomeryr.htm
http://www.1966vwbeetle.com/1966majornewsevents.htm
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What was the baby boom?
http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom.htm
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Ar-Bo/Baby-Boom-Generation.html
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What kind of music was popular in 1966?
Who was Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, and
who were The Beatles?
Top 20 Songs in 1966
http://www.elvis.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930729/bio
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What types of television shows were popular
in the 1960s? Describe the Perry Mason show.
http://www.the60sofficialsite.com/Television_in_the_60s.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050051/
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What is a drive-in? What is a Nightly Double?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scv6xxMgQHc&fea
ture=related
http://thenightlydouble.weebly.com/
Who is Paul Newman? Who is Will Rogers?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/bio
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/rogers/
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Describe a Corvair and a Mustang.
Mustang
Corvair
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What is Barrel Racing?
http://cs.calgarystampede.com/events/rodeo/ev
ents-and-rules/ladies-barrel-racing.html
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What is Reform School?
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ref
orm-school
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What was the DX?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_potter_20
00/4744098567/
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Who wrote the story Great Expectations?
What is it about?
http://charlesdickenspage.com/expectations.html
Who was Robert Frost? Read the poem
Nothing Gold Can Stay. What do you think
this poem is about?
http://www.internal.org/Robert_Frost
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/849.html
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What are the Greasers? The Socs?
Greasers and Socs
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