80s

that was a really good aids activity. before the game we didnt know that anybody was going to spread anything which is just like hte people of the 80's and even today. presently we have ways of detecting the virus before you can spread it but back then i dont know if they had that kind of technology because it was such a new thing. whenever i hear about aids and the 80s i think about this documentary i saw on vh1 of what it was like in the 80s when aids was discovered. it had a huge affect on the nation and the world. Everything changed when the deadly virus was introduced. i know from teaching the 30s group that finding and teaching hte most influenctal part of you decade is hard but i think aids demanded a lot more time.

I missed the first day but it sounded like fun. i wish we'd talked
about some of the music that came out of the 60's, though.
That salesman essay and the quiz took up a lot of the class on
the second day so there wasnt much time to teach in. I dont think
that the cuban missle crisis simulation/game was very successful.
we didn't take the whole thing very serious

1940's

Having presented for the 30s group last cycle I know how nervewrecking teaching in front of the class can be. I have a new appreciation for those that can and I want to congratulate the 1940's group on a job well done. I think they could have been a little more interactive by playing games to get us interested but they still had very informative and interesting ways of getting their point across.
I like how they used "Dr. Strangelove" as a teaching tool. It had a lot more meaning than i thought it did. It was like "Wizard of Oz" for the 30's because it disguised conflicts of the decades by using dialogue, charecters and other things. movies seem to be more meaningful back then compared to now when a new shallow blockbuster hit sells millions in tickets every weekend.