"Decades Night" in middle school

Well, well, well, we have made it. The middle school students of today are researching our decade. They are learning, in school, about the styles, music, events, culture, and people of the Seventies. Sigh. Deep sigh.

I decided to do some research, middle school style. Here are some sites, if you are interested!

The Streaker at the Oscars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IIl3zSYL8k

Barbara Walters on Gilda Radner as "Babwa WaWa"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HOMtOzoVM8

1 9 7 3 B E S T S E L L E R S

F I C T I O N

1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
2. Once Is Not Enough, Jacqueline Susann
3. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth
5. Burr, Gore Vidal
6. The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart
7. Evening in Byzantium, Irwin Shaw
8. The Matlock Paper, Robert Ludlum
9. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, Paul E. Erdman
10. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor
2. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins
3. I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris
4. The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
5. Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Jean Nidetch
6. How To Be Your Own Best Friend, Mildred Newman, et al.
7. The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch
8. Better Homes and Gardens Home Canning Cookbook
9. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistair Cooke
10. Sybil, Flora R. Schreiber

The History of the Smiley Face (peak of popularity, 1971)
http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/04-01/04-14-01/a04wn028.htm


Hot Pants
Hot pants were the rage in the early 1970s having found great popularity years earlier among European prostitutes. Hot pants were the successor to the miniskirt, succeeding in showing more leg, more cheek and more attitude than had been previously displayed.

The #1 Song for May 5, 1973: 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree' by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando.

Kojak
1 9 7 3 - 1 9 7 8 (USA)125 x 60 minute episodes
The favourite detective show of police around the US, Kojak made the streets of New York safe, baldness sexy and Chuppa Chups (Tootsie Pops) an acceptable vice. Developed from a telly (no pun intended) movie, the show centred around the incorruptible Lieutenant Theo Kojak from the Manhattan South Precinct.