Chart Toppers
___ ____, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
Hey Jude by The Beatles
A coming-of-age story based on a novel, this movie chronicles the childhood of Scout and Jem Finch as their father Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of rape.
To Kill a Mockingbird
US President. Elected in 1960, he made steps towards supporting civil rights changes and was open to a more liberal direction of America. His assassination in 1963 was a shocking event around the world.
John F Kennedy
invented in 1963 by Edward Craven Walker, who was looking to create a lamp that would both change the mood in a room and provide a source of light.
Lava lamp
a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools.
To Kill a Mockingbird
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside
I've got the month of May
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way
My Girl by The Temptations
The musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children and their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis.
The Sound of Music
Non-violent civil rights leader. He inspired the American civil rights movement to achieve greater equality and end segregation.
Martin Luther King Jr
a material that is used in packaging today to protect fragile items, like electronic equipment, during shipping or storage.
Bubble wrap
This book is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is part of a gang called the Greasers, who are known for the trouble they cause. The novel follows Ponyboy as his life gets thrown off course after a rival gang, the Socs, beat him and one of his friends up
The Outsiders
When I first saw you
With your smile so tender
My heart was captured
My soul surrendered
I spent a lifetime
Waiting for the right time
Now that you're near
The time is here, at last
It’s Now Or Never by Elvis Presley
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
West Side Story
Successor to Stalin, he ended many of the worst excesses of Stalin’s oppressive policies. He led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 during the tense years of the Cold War.
Nikita Khrushchev
a groundbreaking invention that changed the way we consumed music. it was a revolutionary invention because it allowed people to listen to music on portable devices.
Cassette tape
satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. The work centres on Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay alive.
Catch-22
They say our love won't pay the rent
Before it's earned, our money's all been spent
I guess that's so, we don't have a pot
But at least I'm sure of all the things we got
I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher
The powerful tycoon Auric _______ has initiated Operation Grand Slam, a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin, must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries.
Goldfinger
Cuban revolutionary leader. He led the Communist revolution of 1959. He defeated the attempt US-led coup at the Bay of Pigs becoming a thorn in the side of the US.
Fidel Castro
Not only used to light your home or office, these are used in computer monitors, televisions, traffic lights, and other forms of lighting across the world today.
LED bulbs
the first of seven autobiographical works by this American writer, published in 1969. The book chronicles her life from age 3 through age 16, recounting an unsettled and sometimes traumatic childhood that included rape and racism.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ____ __ ____
Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
The lyrics were written by his wife, June Carter Cash.
A play adapted for the screen, this movie examines the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977. She continued India’s policy of non-aligned movement (neither US or Soviet Union)
India Gand hi
allowed meteorologists on the ground to receive information about weather conditions from space in real time.
Weather satellite
an autobiography written by American minister, who collaborated with American journalist Alex Haley. It was released posthumously on October 29, 1965, nine months after his assassination.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X