Task

It is important to learn about our past in order to make for a succesful future. One of the best and most interesting ways to learn about history and life in the years way before you were born is to talk to someone older than you who can tell you from experience about the past. By doing this, historical events that you learn about in your textbook will come to life for you through listening to someone who actually lived through the events you read about. For this webquest, you will become a reporter and an author. Your first job is to interview a parent or someone close to you who was born in 1960 or before. By doing this you will have the opportunity to learn about various things such as the Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War.

Another part of your job in writing this book will help you to get a first-hand account of important historical events such as World Wars One and Two and the Great Depression. Our class will take a field trip to a local retirement home so that we can interview older people who can tell us their stories about living during these times in the first half of the 20th Century. It's also important to know a little about your own history. Therefore, the last section that you will be composing in our book will be about your family genealogy. This may seem like a lot to do now...but we'll work step-by-step. The final product and the learning experience you take away from it will be well worth it.