Hippie Scavenger Hunt: The following assignment may be completed for up to 25 points of extra credit. Due on Jan 6, 2014:
Going on a Scavenger Hunt:
Identify one person who was in high school or college between the years 1966 and 1975 and complete the following tasks:
1. List their name and where they lived during this period.
2. Ask the interviewee about characteristics (ie. Drug use, religious experimentation, etc.) of the counterculture and how those characteristics challenged traditional values and lifestyles.
3. Based on information you learn from interviewing this person, characterize the communities and cultures in which they grew up.
4. Ask the person what they remember as the most important aspect/impact of the counterculture.
5. Ask the interviewee to name at least five artifacts (objects) that for them symbolize the counterculture. List their answers.
6. Locate and bring to class one of the artifacts named by the interviewee. The artifact must be a physical object that represents the counterculture. Be prepared to share the object with the class, describing how it reflected the counterculture and how it is being used today.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
12/17-19 Counterculture
1960s---Ch. 5 RG
1. p. 126 What was the Establishment?
2. p. 128 Where did the term “hippie” come from? What did it mean to be a hippie?
3. p. 128 According to the author, what was the reason for the spread of the counterculture?
4. p. 130 Why did some kids feel that the Establishment was hypocritical?
5. p. 130-1 What did the Nixon administration do to the Chicago 8?
6. p. 132 What were two tenets of the counterculture? (All Caps)
7. p. 133 What were music lyrics that identified with the counterculture?
8. p. 133 How did the counterculture try to shock the mainstream from their traditional values?
9. p. 134 What was the hippie truism that Hugh Romney advocated?
10. p. 136 What did the hippies say about work?
11. p. 138 What was the importance of ecology to the counterculture?
12. p. 142 Music was an important carrier of the counterculture. What was the most famous music festival that lives on in mythology?
13. p. 143 What did Life and The New York Times say about Woodstock?
14. p. 143-145 What three events turned the public against the counterculture?
15. p. 146 What happened to many hippies after the height of the movement?
Counterculture Video
1. p. 126 What was the Establishment?
2. p. 128 Where did the term “hippie” come from? What did it mean to be a hippie?
3. p. 128 According to the author, what was the reason for the spread of the counterculture?
4. p. 130 Why did some kids feel that the Establishment was hypocritical?
5. p. 130-1 What did the Nixon administration do to the Chicago 8?
6. p. 132 What were two tenets of the counterculture? (All Caps)
7. p. 133 What were music lyrics that identified with the counterculture?
8. p. 133 How did the counterculture try to shock the mainstream from their traditional values?
9. p. 134 What was the hippie truism that Hugh Romney advocated?
10. p. 136 What did the hippies say about work?
11. p. 138 What was the importance of ecology to the counterculture?
12. p. 142 Music was an important carrier of the counterculture. What was the most famous music festival that lives on in mythology?
13. p. 143 What did Life and The New York Times say about Woodstock?
14. p. 143-145 What three events turned the public against the counterculture?
15. p. 146 What happened to many hippies after the height of the movement?
Counterculture Video
12/13 & 16 Beats--Ancestors of Counterculture
Halberstam's --The Beat of a New Generation
Kerouac and Ginsburg
Counterculture Notes
Kerouac and Ginsburg
Counterculture Notes
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
12/3-4 Vietnam In Class Worksheets
Southeast Asian Worksheet---What is the importance of Southeast Asia---In Class
Vietnam Worksheet
Lecture on the Pentagon Papers
Vietnam Manipulative
Vietnam Worksheet
Lecture on the Pentagon Papers
Vietnam Manipulative
12/2 Vietnamization
1. Vietnam Research Due
2. Vietnamization---Lecture Notes about the differences between Vietnamization and Americanization---LBJ vs. Nixon handling of the War.
3. Nixon Video detailing Vietnamization
2. Vietnamization---Lecture Notes about the differences between Vietnamization and Americanization---LBJ vs. Nixon handling of the War.
3. Nixon Video detailing Vietnamization
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