Help a 10 year old with her home work

powelly · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 May 2007 Karma :

Right I'm in a bit of a bind here, My daughter has just asked for some help with her home work and unfortunately I'm too young to help so we turn to the mighty BCF and hope that one of you kind souls are willing to answer a couple of questions.

I'll hand you over to Amber, aged 10 who can type the rest of this post...

please can you help me with my homework on the 1950's and 1960's.
I'm looking for some one that was a child or a teenager and is old enough and can remember...

if you can remember the 1950's can you answer these questions ?

1. Was the music of the fifties very different to the music of the forties and why ?

2. Was life different in the fifties than the forties and how ?

3. Was it good fun being a young person in the fifties and why ?

4.who were your favorite singers or groups in the fifties and why?

5. What kind of clothes did you were in the fifties and did you like this fashion ?

if you can remember the 1960's can you answer these questions ?

1. Was the music of the sixties very different to the music of the forties and why ?

2. Was life different in the sixties than the forties and how ?

3. Was it good fun being a young person in the sixties and why ?

4.who were your favorite singers or groups in the sixties and why?

5. What kind of clothes did you were in the sixties and did you like this fashion ?

if you can please help
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Google can answer most of those questions for you, you don't need an actual person to tell you about that era...

" Was the music of the fifties very different to the music of the forties and why ? "...

Look at bands that were around in that eras and see what types of music they played, I;E swing, soul, blues etc...

" Was life different in the fifties than the forties and how ? "...

Look up what the social differencies were during those two decades and pick out a few differences...

" Was it good fun being a young person in the fifties and why ? "...

Look up what hobbies people had then and what popular games were played, and what social events were availiable...

" Who were your favorite singers or groups in the fifties and why? "...

Look up who was around then, type them in Youtube and listen to some of their songs and write a small piece about what you liked about them as though you had asked someone from that era...

" What kind of clothes did you were in the fifties and did you like this fashion ? "...

Look up fashions of that era to see what was popular and write a small piece about what you liked about them as thopugh you've spoken to someone of that are...

And do the same for the next set of questions, you're not cheating by doing this you're just using your own initiative and doing a bit of research...

Hope that helps you...
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Scotsman37 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Karma :

Goto the local library's music section and ask the librarian for music from that time and listen to it. Also, ask the person about where to get info, if necessary, about the culture & fashion around that time period.

The Original Muzza · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Karma :

Well I remember listening mostly to young beethoven in the '40s but the '50s was the birth of Hip Hop so it was very different.
Also you must remember that the dinosaurs died out circa 1949, be sure to include that in your homework. Industry was changed vastly by the death of the dinosaurs, though the marginal increase in wooly mammoths and HDTV made the 50s a very profitable decade.

As for being young, well, young people hadn't been invented yet, so that is a moot question.
People mostly wore onion costumes and teabags sewn together.

As for the 60s, sorry I can't help you, that was a long time before the 40s and 50s and so I wasn't alive.
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Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Considering the questions are asking for comparisons to the 40s so assume the interviewee needs to have been at least 10 in 1940 really to remember what it was all like then you need an audience of 80 year olds....*looks around*, try the national nursing homes forum.

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Paivi · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Karma :

Tell her to contact some local nursing homes to see if they could arrange for her to interview the residents. I'm sure the old ladies would love to relive their youth to a young girl.
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powelly · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 May 2007 Karma :

Thanks for the replies particularly you Babyyam! Thumbs Up

As easy as it would have been to send her to the library or let her Google the answers the homework was specifically about asking people and comparing their answers.

The home work was issued Friday and has to be handed in Monday, not a lot of time to start wandering round the old folks homes, and as both of my parents are dead, and both the mrs's are senile they wouldnt of made good interviewees.

I think typically a lack of thought has gone in to issuing this homework, its just a photocopy of a work book that was probably first printed in the 80's when there were a few more people around that remember those decades.
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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

All schools must have used the same sheet of paper for the last 5 years. my son had the same questions 5 years ago, my daughter 2 years ago ( dug out the same answers ) So much for teachers prepping.
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ZRX61 · Victor Meldrew Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Karma :

The main difference between the 40's & 50's is that we weren't being bombed by the bloody krauts in the 50's

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