May 2008
Community Paper
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St. Charles Students Live in the 1960s ... Temporarily

Instead of just studying about U.S. life in the 1960s, middle-school students at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School decided to relive it for a short while.

The eighth-grade social studies class taught by Bill Sorice held a 1960s festival to demonstrate their knowledge of 1960s history that included the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.

Students worked in groups to produce tri-board presentations on various topics that ranged from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam to the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Students also reported on the Pentagon Papers, the John F. Kennedy administration and the president's assassination, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

"Some students wore costumes, and some brought in display items," Sorice said. "The festival itself involved music, incense and a PowerPoint presentation showing many famous images from the 1960s."