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Generation Gap Discussion Slide 2 What is your teacher trying to get you to realize? A. Look up the items below under terms (a Google search is sufficient) B-Answer the questions on this sheet C-Prepare for a graded conversation next class Slide 3 Questions 1. What is your golden age? 2. What time do you hold near and dear to your heart? 3. What would you do if whatever you identified in question 2 was threatened? How would you want to preserve it? 4. When should a 3 rd grader have Facebook, a cell phone or a Twitter account? 5. Name one song you remember most from 7 th grade. 6. What was the best time for your family? 7. What do you make of the time/eternal return chart? Slide 4 The Generation List Slide 5 What is lost? Blockbuster vs. Netlix Slide 6 Comics Golden Age The Golden Age Of Comics Comics have been in existence since the end of the 19th century, but it was after the depression that the popularity of newspaper cartoons expanded into a major industry. The precise era of the Golden Age is disputed, though most agree that it was born with the launch of Superman in 1938. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Superman is possibly the most recognizable comic book character to this day. The success of Superman spawned a series of spin-offs and created a whole new genre of characters with secret identities, superhuman powers and colorful outfits the superhero. Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, Green Lantern and Flash were amongst those who followed. Slide 7 Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert FrostRobert Frost Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Slide 8 Slide 9 They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine and new technology, and now I understand the problems you can see. What did you tell them? Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. Pictures came and broke your heart. Oh-a-a-a oh Slide 10 Scrambled Cable Slide 11 Does Everything have a Golden Age? Slide 12 The Golden Age and change Why so much resistance? Slide 13 Slide 14 Atari 2600 Slide 15 Do the following scenarios express jealousy? 1.Having to record a mix tape of 90 minutes vs 500 songs on ipod 2.Using microfilm vs. JSTOR 3.What aspects of the new generation disgust you? Does that make you a traditionalist? Slide 16 Generations What changes? What stays the same? Slide 17 If there is a golden age for Islam and the belief is that the Cold War altered that golden age, then what would that make bin laden? Slide 18 What do you make about this conversation? Your overall conclusion as a class.