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11.1: Overview: American Counterculture and Social Commentary

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    Photo of a crowd scene on a hillside. A path through the middle of the crowd is very muddy. A stage appears at the bottom of the hill, with a lake and woods behind it.
    A small part of the crowd of 400,000, after the rain, Woodstock, United States, August 1969

    Objectives

    • Respond to the weekly readings within the context of your own perspective. (Textual Annotations)
    • Compare different approaches to counterculture across different types of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc.). (Weekly Journal Entry)

     

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