We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel

This week we looked back on events in the late 20th century through the eyes of Billy Joel, a performer and song writer.  The song was "We Didn't Start the Fire".  Check out the video.  If you were absent 2 or more blocks (May 8 through 14), complete the make up assignment.

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Make up assignment for “We Didn’t Start the Fire”:  2 ½ class period assignment

Choose 10 items of the following verse.  Explain the significance of each item to its time period.  Include minimum of 4 pictures.  List 10 items you would include in a new 21st Century verse.

Hemingway, Eichmann, "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
JFK, 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