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Here is a link to the IRA/NCTE Standards that are discussed in Lesson 1, Lesson 2, and Lesson 3. These standards address both national content and skill goals for students in English classes, as created by the…

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…

This is the second 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 how Ginsberg invokes Whitman and Lorca in "A Supermarket in California",…

This is the third and final 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 how the visions of more socially accepting societies posed by Allen…

Here is a PDF version of the the Michigan Curriculum Framework Standards that are discussed in Lesson 1, Lesson 2, and Lesson 3. Standards for English Language Arts are on pages 20-33 of the PDF. These standards address both Michigan content and…

Here is a copy of my original paper entitled "Reading, Writing, and Living the Revolution: Intertextual Conversation between Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, and Federico Garcia Lorca in Ginsberg’s 'A Supermarket in California' " created as part of my…

Here is a link to the NPR Article and Audio Segment "France's Burqa Ban Adds To Anti-Muslim Climate" to be used in Lesson 3. http://www.npr.org/2011/04/11/135305409/frances-burqa-ban-adds-to-anti-muslim-climate Beardsley, Eleanor. "France's Burqa Ban…

Here is a link to the Online Venn Diagram maker Lucid Chart to be used in Lesson 2. http://www.lucidchart.com/pages/examples/venn_diagram_maker Lucid Chart. "Online Venn Diagram Maker." Online Venn Diagram Maker. Accessed April 26, 2012.…

This is the suggested final project I have created for the mini-unit that is to be handed out as part of the last lesson.

Here is a link to the website for The Walt Whitman Archive.The site provides useful biographical information about Whitman, information about his writing, photographs of Whitman, a recording of Whitman reading his poem "America," information about…