The Beat Generation

Final Essay Assignment Sheet
Resources for Essay

On the Road

Reading Schedule

DAY ONE
Connotations and Definition of "Beat"
Beat Author Reference Sheet
Hitchhiking Map - Part I of On the Road

DAY TWO
The Definition of Beat - Passage Analysis
Chapters 5-10: Homework Assignment

DAY THREE
Hemingway v. Kerouac Handout - Group Assignment
Quintessential Hemingway Story

DAY FOUR
Spontaneous Prose
Examples from Chapter 1 of On the Road
Friday Afternoon in the Universe
Student Sample #1
Student Sample #2

DAY FIVE
Part I Quiz

DAY SIX
Parts II and III Assignment Sheet
Bebop Jazz Documentary: Episode 8 of Ken Burns' Jazz

DAY SEVEN
Old Bull Lee Passages
Excerpts from Junkie and Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Cut-Up Machine

DAY EIGHT
"Buddhism and the Beat Generation" Excerpts
"Buddhism" Encyclopedia Entry from Encarta
"Buddhism" Group Assignment

DAY NINE
Romanticism Handout
Romantic Paintings
Wordsworth Poems
Whitman Poems

LAST DAY
60th Anniversary Article
NPR Story - 50th Anniversary
The Scroll Video

INTERDISCIPLINARY LESSONS

Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Documentary from 1987
Interview Excerpts for Pollock
Jackson Pollock v. Jack Kerouac

Beat Poets

Allen Ginsberg

1.
"Howl"

2.

3.
Homework Handout for "America"


Gregory Corso
  1. "I am 25" and "The Mad Yak"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  1. "Dog"
  2. "In Goya's Greatest Scenes"
Handout for Corso & Ferlinghetti Poems
A Mad Yak Parody

Bob Dylan
  1. Dylan Lyric/Song Packet
  2. The Influence of the Beats on Dylan Handout
  3. Dylan Homework Assignment

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