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A Separate Peace Web Search 

 Imagine that you were a 16-year old attending prepartory school in New Hampshire in 1942. 

Consider information like:
World War II
The draft
Political leaders
Top songs
Popular authors, singers, actors, etc.
New inventions
New Hampshire
Preparatory schools
Fashion

Task

Your job will be to create a PowerPoint-formatted electronic time capsule for the characters in A Separate Peace that will help them remember the summer that changed their lives. Your PowerPoint presentation should be 15-20 slides in length (not counting works cited slides). You will have two class days to complete the time capsule project and may work with one other person. 

Process 

  1. Collect a variety of information on 1942.
    With the data you find, you will develop a list of items to include in an electronic time capsule that will give an overall representation of the time.
  2. To help Gene remember his life as a sixteen-year-old, find information that was relevant to his life at the time. Consider things like:
    • World War II and its South Pacific battles
    • Advertisements and propaganda posters
    • Political leaders
    • Top songs
    • Popular authors, singers, actors, etc.
    • New inventions and medical discoveries
    • Preparatory schools
    • Fashion

Requirements

  • 15-20 PowerPoint slides for content 
  • 1-2 slides for works cited sources will work well for this project.
    Too many PowerPoint slides will cause your audience to yawn.
  • Use pictures, but incorporate them creatively.
    You can also use your own artwork if it is appropriate.
  • Be sure to title and/or caption your graphics.
  • Do not feel limited to this list of items to include!!! Try to think of other forms of documentation to use -- creativity is a large portion of your presentation.

 Websites
http://www.exeter.edu
Homepage of Exeter Academy.

http://library.exeter.edu/dept/separate_peace/article.html   

Article by John Knowles discussing his time at Exeter.

http://library.exeter.edu/dept/separate_peace/essay.html
Photographic essay of the moods and setting of A Separate Peace.

http://www.exeter.edu/library1/separate_peace/defense.html
Description of Exeter's response to the coming of World War II.

http://www.exeter.edu/library1/separate_peace/war.html
Discussion of life at Exeter during World War II.

http://www.exeter.edu/library1/separate_peace/program.html
Changes made at Exeter to meet special circumstances caused by the draft.

http://www.exeter.edu/library1/separate_peace/labor.html
How labor entered the curriculum at Exeter.

http://www.exeter.edu/library1/separate_peace/knowles.html
John Knowles discusses his novel.

http://www.exeter.edu/library1/separate_peace/forties.html
Faculty perspective of life at Exeter in the forties.

http://newdeal.feri.org
An educational website dedicated to the New Deal and surrounding times that contains links to speeches, photos, letters, and interviews.

http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/subject.htm
A subject index for the New Deal Network. May be useful to search for specific subjects.

http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/fdr/index.html
Approximately 30,000 political cartoons about Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.

http://www.academic.marist.edu/fdr/
Homepage for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum

http://www.corbis.com/experience/FDR/fsa/map.html
Photographs of the Great Depression.

http://www.corbis.com/scripts/FDRscrpt/ww2.pl
Photographs of World War II

http://gopher.nara.gov:70/Oh/inform/dc/audvis/still/ww2photo.html
Pictures from National Archives of World War II.

http://www.davison.K12.mi.us/academic/hewitt9.htm
Links to timelines and information on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the New Deal.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection of America from 1935-1945.

http://heismanmemorialtrophy.com
Heisman Award winners.

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1942.html
Article on TIME magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1942..

http://worldwariihistory.info/WWII/Pacific.html
Summary of battles in Pacific between U.S. Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy.

http://www.vincasa.com/  

Information on Casablanca

http://classicfilm.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa070698.htm
Information on Roy Rogers.

http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html   

A list of movies from various time periods.

http://classicfilm.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa051798.htm
A list of World War II movies.

http://americanhistory.miningco.com/library/weekly/bl112897.htm
Random facts about American history.

http://classiccar.chooseyouritem.com/classics/files/ClassicCarspriorto19500.html
Pictures of Cars from the 1930s and 1940s

http://www.santas.net/whitechristmas.htm
Lyrics to "White Christmas."

http://www.filmsite.org/index.html
A guide to the Oscars of 1942.

http://www.choochoo.com/index.shtml  
History of the Chattanooga Choo Choo.

http://www.glennmillerorchestra.com/history.html
Information on the Glenn Miller Band.

Rubric

 An "A" capsule must include at least these  components:

CONTENT: 70 points

    • information about WW II battles in the Pacific 
    • advertisements and/or American propaganda posters from the early 1940s 
    • information about a popular song(s) and/or singers 
    • information about popular authors, singers, actors, etc. 
    • information about a new invention or medical discovery 
    • information about typical teenage clothing for young men 
    • information about American political leaders during 1942-1945 
    • material is well-researched, well-written, and well-organized 

TECHNICAL: 30 points

  • PowerPoint displays  critical thinking in placement of text, sequencing of pages, and page composition 
  • Works cited slides are complete (at end of PowerPoint) 
  • Presentation includes 10-15 slides unified by cohesive slide backgrounds