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"
Gregory Corso
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Handout for Corso & Ferlinghetti Poems
A Mad Yak Parody
Bob Dylan
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"
"How 'Howl' Changed the World" by Fred Kaplan of Slate
Moloch! - A Selection of Illustrations
Howl on Trial - Judge Horn's Decision (p. 11)
Moloch! - A Selection of Illustrations
Howl on Trial - Judge Horn's Decision (p. 11)
2.
3.
Homework Handout for "America"Gregory Corso
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Handout for Corso & Ferlinghetti Poems
A Mad Yak Parody
Bob Dylan