LEARNING TARGET:  to be able to explain the basic ideas/themes of THE BEATS and why they were important to American Literature and Culture.

 

In CLASS

1. Took Final Vocab Quiz (Unit 10)
2. Video/Discussion/lecture/reading about THE BEATS
   1. THE BEATS

 

REMINDER:  Test Next Tuesday–Literary Timeline.  Monday’s class will be largely devoted to review.

• Terms to Know and Reading Grid are your best study guides
• The following movements and texts will be referred to specifically on the test
  • Pre-European America
  • Colonial Era
    • “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
  • Age of Reason
    • “Common Sense”
  • Romantic Period
    • “The Devil and Tom Walker”
    • “The Raven”
  • Realism
    • “The Story of an Hour”
  • The Harlem Renaissance
    • Various Poems
  • The Lost Generation
    • “The Old Man at the Bridge”
  • Modernism
    • Various Poems
  • The Beats
    • On the Road