The Fifties Student Edition (Reading Through History)

By Robert Marshall and Jake Henderson

Reading Through History is pleased to present The Fifties: Student Edition . It includes 201 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of American history throughout the decade of the 1950s. This volume emphasizes the Eisenhower administration and the Civil Rights Movement, as well as focusing on cultural topics such as the sports figures, Hollywood stars, and musical performers of this fabulous decade. This is the go-to resource for any teacher in need of information or student reading activities in a U.S. History or World History course. This resource manual is sure to be a perfect fit for any classroom, whether it be elementary school, middle school, high school, or homeschool environment. There are 48 reading lessons in all, and each has several pages of student activities to accompany the reading, including multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. This is the STUDENT EDITION, therefore it does not include answer keys. Topics in this volume include: the Kefauver Hearings, the Kitchen Debate, the U-2 Incident, fallout shelters, civil defense, and the effects of a nuclear weapon. There is also a focus on Brown v. the Board of Education , the Little Rock Nine, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the death of Emmett Till. There are also lessons related to McDonald's, Disneyland, Levittown, the Greasers, the Beatniks, Rock n' Roll, the rise of television, I Love Lucy , Fahrenheit 451 , the Catcher in the Rye , and On the Road . This volume also includes brief biographies for: Dwight Eisenhower, Rosa Parks, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, Milton Berle, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Brown, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Louis L'Amour, and Charles M. Schulz. Again, this is the STUDENT EDITION of The Fifties, and does not include answer keys.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CVQS542G
• ISBN13: 9798879640847
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.5"