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Welcome to my online archive of materials for teaching a short mini-unit on Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg’s poem “A Supermarket in California”! Hello, my name is Kayleigh Forlow and I am an English for Secondary Education major and Mellon…

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…

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

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",…

Discussion questions I have created to be used as part of Lesson 2.

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…

Discussion questions I have created to be used as part of Lesson 3.

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 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…

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…