Forrest Gump into History

The movie "Forrest Gump” travels through the decades of the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s with a very special protagonist, Forrest Gump. This printable is going to pay special attention on some real historical events.

I have created and revised these activities is to make my students acquaint with the historical events of these three decades and to develop their critical thinking.

Table of contents:

1. Warming-up activity
2. Mapping Forrest
3. Quoting Forrest
4. Main characters
5, Language
6. The origins of the name “Forrest”
7. Elvis Presley and John Lennon
8. Moon landing
9. Four USA Presidents
10. Higher order thinking activity
11. The Watergate
12. A Timeline
13. Speaking activity

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