"All I Want for Christmas Is..." - Toys of the Past
During this lesson, students will be searching newspaper advertisements to locate Christmas toys which were popular during the years 1897 to 1922. They will use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast these toys with toys which are popular today. As a culminating activity, each student will choose a newspaper ad from the past to serve as the resource for a writing activity. In this writing activity, the child will assume the identity of a young child from the time of the date of their ad. They will then write a letter to Santa requesting toys listed in their ad.
