Decoding the 80s: Enduring Legacy

Section role: supports Section 3 while the teacher formalizes student discoveries and introduces terms like Reaganomics, the Cold War, and materialism, building on the small-group investigations from Section 2 and setting up the individual assessments in Section 4. Slides: (1) Title — 'Decoding the 80s: What Stays the Same?'; (2) Reaganomics and Consumerism — bullets: definition of supply-side economics, the 'Greed is Good' corporate culture, rise of the Power Suit; (3) The Cold War and Paranoia — bullets: nuclear threat backdrop, gritty action movies and high-stakes techno-thrillers; (4) Media Democratization — bullets: MTV as a visual commodity, synth-pop production, comparison of 1984 production to modern pop hits; (5) Icons Then and Now — bullets: Wall Street's Gordon Gekko and the Walkman compared to modern equivalents like tech founders and smartphones; (6) The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle — bullets: why past aesthetics return when the children of that era become creators today; (7) Closing slide — 'Which 1980s trend has the strongest footprint in your daily life today?' — hands control back to the teacher to transition into the Impact Audit assessment.