“We Didn’t Start The Fire”
3rd Quarter Project
20% of your quarter average
Due Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Take the song and:
1. Go to: http://school-for-champions.com/history/start_fire_facts.htm#.WKcRJmfJDZ4
This site will give you links to each of the people and events
described in the song. Read them, then summarize by taking any five stanzas and write a one-sentence typed explanation of who and/or what they were for EACH ITEM IN EACH STANZA you choose. (Ex. of stanza-1949-Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Jonnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio). If a link doesn’t work or is blocked just Google it.
BE SURE THAT YOUR SENTENCE IS ABOUT THE YEAR THAT THE ITEM APPEARS IN THE SONG
BE SURE THAT YOUR SENTENCE IS IN YOUR OWN WORDS (NOT COPIED & PASTED!)
2. Create a PowerPoint slide for any three of the stanzas of the song (any three you want) –Must be three separate slides.
3. Finish/Update the song
- The song goes up to 1989. A great deal has happened in the 29 years since the song was written. Make a typed list of 15 events and explain what the event/person was/did and why you chose to put or include it/them.
4. PROJECT EXTRA CREDIT – To be explained in class.
PROJECT CHECKLIST
q Events/ People Summary
q Power Point Slides
q 15 Events to Finish the Song
q Extra Credit???
Your Project Will Be Graded On The Following Criteria:
Ø On Time
Ø Events/Descriptions are accurate and in your own words
Ø Power Point Slides is creative and original
Ø The song update shows creativity and historical relevance
On the Due Date Tuesday, March 6, 2018, turn in the following items in the order listed below:
1. The one-sentence typed explanation of who and/or what the events were about from any FIVE stanzas.
2. The PowerPoint slides on any THREE stanzas. Should be three separate slides.
3. The typed list and explanation of the event/person you added to the song.
NAME ______PERIOD ______
NAME ______
NAME ______
SCORING RUBRIC
1. On Time 10 Points: ______
2. Events/Descriptions are accurate 30 Points ______
and are no more than 1-2 sentences
(typed), in your own words
4. PowerPoint slides are creative 30 Points ______
and original
5. The song update shows creativity 30 Points ______
and historical relevance
(typed and events are explained)
Extra Credit #1 ______
Extra Credit #2 ______
______
Total Score: ______
We Didn’t Start the Fire
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
50 / Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
51 / Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
52 / Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS
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
53 / Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Block
54 / Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
55 / Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
56 / Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
57 / Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
58 / Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
59 / Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
60 / U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
61 / Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
62 / Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
63 / Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say
CHORUS
64-89 / Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punkrock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy Metal, Suicide
Foreign debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore
CHORUS
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning on us
We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...