We Didn't Start The Fire

Syllables - Notice the use of syllables in We Didn't Start The Fire. 

   2        2          2       1
Harry Truman, Doris Day

   1     2           2      1
Red China, Johnny Ray
   1      3            2           2
South Pacific, Walter Winchell,
  1      4 
Joe DiMaggio


  1      3                 2         2

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon
        4                4
Studebaker, Television
    1       3          1        3
North Korea, South Korea, 
     3           2
Marilyn Monroe


Create a list of important people, places, and events from Chapter 15 Section 3.  Find rhyming words first.  Keep track of how many syllables you are using.

History of the world between 1949 and 1989
 

1949

Harry Truman, Doris Day
Red China, Johnny Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, 
Joe DiMaggio

1950

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon
Studebaker, Television

North Korea, South Korea, 
Marilyn Monroe

1951

Rosenbergs, H-bomb
Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, The King and I
And The Catcher In The Rye

1952

Eisenhower, Vaccine
England's got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, 
Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

1953

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, 
Communist Bloc

1954

Roy Cohn
Juan Peron
Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phu Falls, 
Rock Around the Clock

1955

Einstein, James Dean,
Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan
Elvis Presley, Disneyland

1956

Bardot, Budapest
Alabama, Khrushchev

Princess Grace
Peyton Place

Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

1957

Little Rock, Pasternak,
Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai,
Bridge On The River Kwai

1958

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,
California baseball

Starkweather homicides,
Children of Thalidomide

1959

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur
Space Monkey, Mafia

Hula Hoops, Castro
Edsel is a no-go

1960

U2, Syngman Rhee
payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, Psycho,
Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

1961

Hemingway, Eichman
Stranger in a Strange Land

Dylan
Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion

1962

Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson

1963

Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British Politician sex

J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

1964-1989

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot
Woodstock
Watergate, punk rock

Begin
Reagan

Palestine
Terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride,
heavy metal, suicide

Foreign debts
Homeless Vets
AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores
China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars,
I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it