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=**The Decade of Firsts: 1955- 1965** =

Iconic Films/Actors - Sara
**Youth Culture - Alex**

Clips: Perfect Harmony, The Long Walk Home,Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (even though it is 1967) To Kill A Mockingbird
 * Stereotypes ** : My Most Excellent Year, Steve Kluger; It's Kind of A Funny Story, Ned Vizzini; Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson; We Beat the Street, Sharon Draper; House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros; The Giver, Lois Lowry; Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry; Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen; A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry; Into the Wild, John Krakauer; Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston; "What White Publishers Won't Print" (essay) Zora Neale Hurston; “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” (essay) Zora Neale Hurston; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Indissoluble Matrimony, (short story) Rebecca West; Dr. Seuss - The Lorax (materialism, need vs. want), The Sneetches (racism, prejudice), Horton Hears A Who (racism, prejudice, anti-abortion)
 * Youth Culture ** :

Rock and Roll influences- Elvis, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, Ritchie Valens, Chuck Barry, The Platters

Film: Cheap Thrillers- The Blob, I was a Teenage Werewolf, Monsters on the Campus

Beach Films-Gidget, Beach Party Films, A Summer Place, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party, Where the Boys Are Rebel's Realm: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, The Wild One, Rumble on the Docks

Literature: Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare, Catcher in the Rye-Salinger, East of Eden-Steinbeck, The Hunger Games, Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, The Giver, Les Miserables


 * Iconic Faces and Films **

// My Most Excellent Year (Steve Kluger) - // Realizing actors/role models are only human and flawed

Starlets heavily influence world of fashion then and now- Audery Hepburn sunglasses, Grace Kelly/Kate Middleton wedding gown

The Story of the Rebel- Rebel Without a Cause, Jailhouse Rock-- //The Outsiders//

Loss of innocence- //To Kill a Mockingbird// (film and txt), //Speak//-Laurie Halse Anderson, and film Babydoll.

Forbidden love- West side story, Romeo and Juliet, and Twilight-(Stephanie Meyer)

Socialite/high society--the gossip girl novels (Cecily Von Ziegesar) with Breakfast at Tiffanys

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) – strong female, works outside the home, defy social norms, civil disobedience A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry) – women works outside the home, features African American cast Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher) – strongly features suicide Delirium (Lauren Oliver) – strong female, role of women, civil disobedience The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
 * Social Commentary **
 * Quiz Shows and Competition **