Beatles Project?!

My US History teacher recently told us that our final at the end of the trimester is that we'll have to pick a topic and make a 10 minute presentation that we'll have to prevent to the class THEN be preceded to have questions asked over the topic. HOLY JEEZE! I was frazzled at what to do, but then I thought, 'What do I know in my life that I could talk about 10 minutes worth of it?' of course, guess what I picked! THE BEATLES!

Even though this may seem like a pretty easy project to handle BUT IT ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO THAT! There are so many things to talk about from 1962-1970 and even things prier to that! With all of those years in store; comes with a large task of picking out which topics are more important than others. 

The first thing that came to my mind was a way of using what we've learned about the 1960s in the class and then partake that with major things that happened with The Beatles. We just got done learning about the Civil Rights and I remembered that Paul McCartney wrote "Blackbird" (on The White Album) about the death of Martin Luther King Jr. that happened around the same time. So that's a possibility of something that would be able to tie in 2 things that are actually quite interesting.

Of course I'd talk about the most famous Beatles events, such as them coming to America in February of 1964, the comment that John made about The Beatles being "more important than Jesus", maybe a little bit on the usage of the drugs they did (and the way of song making behind it), their break up in April of 1970 for sure. My friends keep joking to me and saying that I would probably take over the amount of time given to talk because I'd have so much information to say (which is most likely true). 

I still have a few more months to prepare for this project. Looking up more Beatles facts, getting out all of my Beatles books and rereading them over again, anything to keep my Beatles knowledge up until then! The PowerPoint won't take as long to make and I already have all my information in my head that it'll be a breeze. I GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT IN MAY/JUNE! 

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