Folklife Resources for Educators

Materials Related to Aging

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Grand Generation Discussion Guide
by Paddy Bowman
http://www.folkstreams.net/context,281

Discussion guide for grades 10-12 to accompany the film “The Grand Generation,” created by filmmakers Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner, and Steve Zeitlin in 1993. The 28-minute film, available as streaming video on folkstreams.net, is a portrait of six older Americans from Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Washington, D.C., New Mexico, and Tennessee, each with their roots in a unique cultural heritage and their own distinctive perspectives on the nature of aging. The discussion guide and film consider the issues of creative aging, diversity, race relations, gender roles, hard times and resilience, creativity, the cycle of life, and technological change in the lives of the featured elders.

Grade Level: 9-12; Undergraduate	Curriculum: Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Primary sources; Video recordings	Language: English
Subjects: Labor unions; Race relations; Aging; Folk art; Old age; Folklore; Older people; Educational films; Ethnographic films; Oral history; Older artists; Gender role Geographic locations: Washington (D.C.); Tennessee; New York (N.Y.); New Mexico; Mississippi; Maryland

Sponsoring Organization:
Folkstreams

http://www.folkstreams.net/

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