I am always looking for ways to present material to my students visually. I teach American Literature and Critical Media Studies, and I find that visual literacy is increasingly urgent for my students. They need to be able to read the images that they are exposed to in order to be literate critical consumers of media.
For this lesson, my goal is to introduce students to the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Using ThingLink, I took this iconic photograph and added links to videos and audio of the writers, along with a few salacious news items. Before students peruse the links, I will engage them in a discussion where we break down the image in order to make inferences about the men in the picture, their relationships to each other, and the setting that they are in.
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