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  • Collection: Lesson #1: The Revolutionary Leader of the Beats, “Blue Automobiles in Driveways,” and Whitman’s “Lost America of Love”: Deconstructing Allen Ginsberg’s Poem “A Supermarket in California”

Bio'Ginsberg.docx
Here is a stable URL for the biographical information from Literature Online on Ginsberg to be used in Lesson 1, Lesson 2, and Lesson 3. If the URL does not work, the information from the site is also inlcluded in a Word Document…

Here is a YouTube video of his poem Ginsberg reading "A Supermarket in California" and reproduction of the poem by the UPenn. The copy of the poem (used in Lesson 1, Lesson 2, and Lesson…

Here is a link to a YouTube video of Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and a link to the lyrics of the song to be used in Lesson 1 Lyrics. http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/times-they-are-changin "The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob…

DQ1.docx
Discussion questions I have created to be used as a part of Lesson 1.

LESSON1.docx
This is the first lesson plan of the mini-unit I have created on Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California." The lesson described is geared towards helping students see the links between Ginsberg's countercultural status, his revolutionary vision…
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