week of May 8-12

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Monday- work day

Tuesday- 1950's project:

Music

1. Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)
2. Come Go With Me (Del Vikings)
3. Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)

Movies

1. All About Eve (1950)
2. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
3. High Noon (1952)
4. Shane (1953) 
5. Dial M For Murder (1954)
6. To Catch A Thief (1955)
7. The Searchers (1956)
8. The Seventh Seal (1957)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

TV Shows

1. I Love Lucy
2. Gunsmoke
3. The Rifleman
4. Laramie
5. Have Gun, Will Travel

Basic Facts

1. Gas
   1. 1950=$0.18
2. New car
   1. $1,511
3. Average Rent
   1. $75
4. College cost to Harvard
   1. $600
5. Average income
   1. $3,216
6. US postage stamp
   1. $0.03

Interesting Facts

1. RCA broadcast the 1st colored tv program on June 25, 1951
2. Elvis Presley was introduced to radio listeners on July 8, 1953 with the song "That's All Right"
3. First nuclear submarine launched on Jan 21, 1954

Fashion

1. Women
   1. Feminine look
   2. Unpadded, natural, rounded shoulders
   3. Natural waistlines
   4. Full, billowy skirts
   5. Blouses
   6. Long, narrow skirts
   7. Handbags and gloves
   8. Jewelry
      1. Pearl necklaces, bracelets and earrings
      2. Hair even shorter than in 40's
2. Men
   1. Clean-cut
   2. Short hair
   3. Pressed, well-fitted suits
   4. Wide brimmed Panama hats
   5. Straw hats
3. Young and Teenage Girls
   1. Much of same fashions as adult women
   2. Ponytails
   3. Casual look (jeans)
4. Young and Teenage Boys
   1. Clean cut
   2. Short hair
   3. Pants or jeans
   4. T-shirts
   5. Collared shirts
   6. Sweaters 
   7. Short jackets
   8. White socks and black shoes

Fads

1. Hula hoops
   1. Instantly popular when they came out in 1958
2. 3D movies
   1. Golden era of 3D
   2. Fad died down after customers complaining about their eyes hurting afterwards 
3. Poodle skirts
4. Coonskin hats (Davy Crockett)

Inventions

1. Hula Hoop
2. Telephone answering machine (1950)
3. Superglue (1951)
4. Mr. Potato Head (1952)
5. Bar Code (1952)
6. Credit Card (1951)
7. TV Remote(1956)

Major Historical Events

1. McCarthy Communist "Witch Hunt" (1950)
2. Churchill is elected back into office as UK prime minister (1951)
3. Polio vaccine (1952)
4. DNA discovered (1953)
5. Stalin dies (1953)
6. Discovered that cigarettes cause cancer (1954)
7. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
8. Launch of Sputnik-Space age (1957)
9. NASA founded (1958)
10. Castro becomes dictator of Cuba (1959)

• Brown vs Board of Education case (1953)
• 22nd amendment passed

Wednesday- no school 

Thursday- work day

Friday- 1960's presentation