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== =Welcome to the //A Historical Perspective Wiki!//=

On these pages, you and your partner(s) will compose a biographical essay about a famous or infamous person mentioned in Billy Joel's song, //"We Didnt' Start the Fire".// Your essay will be based on your research from the //Glogster// assignment. You will be working collaboratively; that is, either or any of the partners may add a sentence or a paragraph to the essay to increase the reader's understanding or to further an idea. You may reorganize the essay, add subtitles or a picture. You must add **at least two links** to another place on the //Internet// to enhance your essay. You may **add a widget** to your glog on //Glogster.//

Remember, you are composing this essay with others so cooperate, share a vision of the outcome and be willing to change your minds as the "essay adventure" proceeds. Use the notes that you took during your research time and compose your own paragraphs. Before you begin to write, spend a few minutes at the following web site for inspiration and guidiance, [|"Biography Maker".]

===**Now, click on the name of your person from the alphabetical list on your** left. It will bring you to a wiki page to compose your biographical essay. To start, click on the "edit" tab at the top of the page and when you are finished for the day, don't forget to "save". You or your partner(s) can work on this at any time on any computer. Be creative, have fun and remember this is a collaborative project!===

**Click on the link to the web site for more information about the years referenced in Billy Joel's song (1949 - 1989).**
//"**We Didn't Start the Fire**" is a song by [|Billy Joel]. Its lyrics are made up from rapid-fire brief allusions to over a hundred headline events between March [|1949] (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and [|1989], when the song was released on his album [|Storm Front]. The song was a number-one hit in the US, and often parodied since.// //The song and music video have been interpreted as a rebuttal to criticism of Joel's [|Baby Boomer] generation. The song's title and refrain mention "the fire", an allusion to conflict and societal turmoil; Joel asserts that these can't be blamed on his generation alone - "we didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning".//

//**Mrs. Jean MacDonald **//
//**Computer Literacy **// //**2010/2011 **//

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