Turn your classroom into a music studio as groups work together to determine why music sounds different when performed live versus a recording. After listening to some different music, each group picks a poem, creates a recording, and...

Students view a piece of impressionist art, listen to a piece of jazz music and then write a piece about the picture in the style of beat poets. They compare their writing and look for differences in their perceptions.

Students go outside to the playground and write a piece in the style of beat poets based on what they see and hear outside.

A reading of Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" launches an interdisciplinary study of the connection between the meters of a poem and a melody. After identifying the number of beats in each line of the poem, young musicians use...

Students determine if Lincoln and Whitman ever met and write a dialogue between the two men. In this Whitman and Lincoln lesson, students read Whitman's poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" and connect it to the events of Lincoln's presidency....

Learners explore the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. They read and analyze poems by Allen Ginsberg, conduct Internet research, collect examples of art of the 60s, and create a presentation.

Put the tips and tricks in this guide into practice in order to encourage your pupils to blossom into poets. A wonderful reference material for teachers, this packet includes definitions of poetic terms and forms as well as step-by-step...

Students explore poetry that examines social concerns. In this poetry lesson, students research poems and poets. Students present their findings to their classmates.

A video featuring members of Oregon’s Astoria Native American fishing community launches a study of the oral tradition of poetry, and how traditions are passed down within different cultures. Activities, assessments, extensions and...

  Students explore the art of haiku's by listening to, modeling and creating them.  In this haiku poetry lesson, students choose an object to focus their haiku on.  After hearing a brief history of the haiku; students make...

Seventh graders describe an event, a situation, etc. through the eyes of two people or two inanimate objects.

Contains a brief explanation of the Beat poetry movement. Also includes a short excerpt from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."

This site contains biographical content drawn from the American Masters Series DVD entitled The Life And Times of Allen Ginsberg. The person featured,Allen Ginsberg, was one of the first "beat" poets. His counterculture experimentation...

Biography of Beat generation writer Gary Snyder includes a quote and photos.

This site is a lesson about the poet Allen Ginsberg. Read his poems, read about the work of other writers in the Beat movement, and investigate the larger social and political climate in which they lived.

Read a short biography on Snyder written by Ann Charters from "The Portable Beat Reader."

Read a biography of Gary Snyder on this American Museum of Beat Art site. There is also a bibliography of his works.

A brief biographical overview of Bob Kaufman including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Kaufman is also provided.

This exhibition is an attempt to revisit, share, and interpret the 60s.

A biography of Allen Ginsberg, a leading poet and driving force of the Beat generation.

This site offers a very long biography, several quotes from Snyder, and many quotes from other writers regarding Gary Snyder. It also has a bibliography.