Stepping On the Cracks

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Stepping On the Cracks

• As presented by
• Katlin Eakes,
• Kyleigh Presley, and
• Amber Cooper

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Section 1
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Characters

• Elizabeth blonde hair, Margarets best friend
• Hitler beady eyes, moustache
• Jimmy funny, Margarets brother, went to the
  war, great artist
• Margaret 6th grade, main character
• Gordy Margaret and Elizabeth hate him, picks on
  everyone, big, ugly kid.

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Sequence of events
D-Day
Started sixth grade
October-November, Gordy didnt bother them
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Historical Researcher

• Time period 1944-1945
• Saturday Evening Post, Life, and Evening Star
  some magazines back then.
• World War II Step on a crack break Hitlers
  back, a saying said by children.

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Section 2
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Historical Researcher

• June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along
  a French coastline to fight Nazi, Germany on the
  beaches of Normandy, France.
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation
  a crusade in which we will accept nothing less
  than full victory.
• The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied
  Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than
  100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to
  defeat Hitler.
• Kilroy part of American pop culture, often seen
  in graffiti.
• Victrola a record player or phonograph
• Mary Marvel a comic book superhero
• deserter one who hides from the army to avoid
  going to war.

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Vocabulary

• Saddles popular post war shoes, usually worn for
  dancing. Old school saddles had white leather on
  the back and the toe box
• gibbering chat or prattle
• abhor to detest extremely
• scrupulously in a careful manner
• franked direst and unreserved in speech
  straightforward
• listing the act of compiling a list

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Section 3
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Vocabulary

• nipperkinsmall cup
• cheracol cough medicine

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Historical Research

• Hitler a perfect synonym for dictatorship, ever
  after so many years after his death everyone
  still remembers his meanness
• H.V Kalterborn known for his ability to ad lib
  and his depth of knowledge
• Stella Davis and actress
• ardennes a region of extensive forests, rolling
  hills and old mountains
• Battle of BulgeThe Battle of the Bulge, fought
  over the winter months of 1944 ? 1945, was the
  last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in
  World War Two.

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Sequence of Events
Meet Stuart
Stuart gets sick
Margaret and Elizabeth decide to take care of him
Gordy starts being decent to them
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Characters

• Stuart doesnt believe in war, deserted the war,
  Gordys older brother
• Margaret feels sorry for Stuart
• Elizabeth helps take care
• Stuart
• Donald Gordys older brother, fighting in the
  war

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Section 4
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Characters

• Stuart thinks Margaret and Elizabeth are his
  angels of the battle field.
• Barbara and Brent Barbara wants to help with
  Stuart Stuart and her were best friends in
  school Brent is Barbaras son Brents dad died
  in the war (Butch!)

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Historical Research

• Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low assembled 18 girls
  from Savannah, Georgia
• With the goal of bringing girls out of isolated
  home environments and into community service and
  the open air,
• Girl Scouts hiked, played basketball, went on
  camping trips, learned how to tell time by the
  stars, and studied first aid
• Thomas Hardy famous poet a naturalist.

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Sequence of Events
Took Stuart to Barbaras house
Stuart got sick
Took him to the doctor
Skipped school
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Section 5
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Characters!

• Barbara caring, mother, lives with her parents
• Stuart nice, doesnt like wars, deserter
• Barbaras parents nice, caring, helping

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Historical Research

• Bing Crosby CBS radio recordings famous singer
• The Lone Ranger An American radio show
• Edgar Allen Poe An American poet, writer,
  editor, and literary critic

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They see June and Gordy, and June is crying so
they go to the Smiths House to see what happened
Margaret and Elizabeth see Gordy get hit by his
dad
Stuart is getting better
Go to Barbaras house to check on Stuart
Margaret and her mother go to get a Christmas
Tree
Margarets mother doesnt tell anybody about it.
But wishes she would have.
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Section 6
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Characters

• Margaret- sadder and more quiet
• Elizabeth- is still the same outgoing person she
  was
• Gordy- moved to North Carolina realizes he
  should be nicer to the girls
• Jimmy- has been killed in the war

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Sequence of Events
Mr. Smith beat up Gordy
Gordys family moved to North Carolina
Mr. Smith got arrested
Jimmy died
Barbara and Stu got engaged
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Historical Research

• Iwo Jima it was a hardship of a batt