Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Wednesday Wars - The Turbulent 1960's

The novel, The Wednesday Wars, is set in the decade of the 1960s. Many important historical events and social as well as political movements occurred during during this turbulent time. Go online and research two or more of the following topics. Your blog this week should include a discussion about what you learned and how your topics are discussed in the novel.
Topics:

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Kennedy
Civil Rights movement
hippies
space program
atomic bomb
Vietnam War
Mickey Mantle