The Birch School                       Trimester 3 HS Post WWII History                  The Sixties

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Questions on “The Best Documentary to Understand Hippies” David Hoffman’s Making Sense of the Sixties

We will view this 10 minute video segment together, taking time to answer these questions:

1. What is the video saying about political activists and hippies? Do you think that is true?
2. What does Greil Marcus say the Beatles gave American youth?
3. According to Graham Nash, what did long hair mean? Can you imagine that to be true?

Wednesday, March 18 Assignment 1 Questions on “The Summer of Love” chapter 1 American Experience | PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ZExRNT0GU

First Thing: DO NOT TYPE IN THIS DOCUMENT

Go to the “File” pulldown.  Choose “make a copy”, to make a copy of these questions for yourself.  RENAME your copy by clicking in the name box. Rename your copy: “YOUR NAME summer of love Q’s” Answer the questions in YOUR DOCUMENT.  Share your document with me: ehelbig@thebirchschool.org

Having viewed this video segment, about 8 minutes, please answer these questions, in complete sentences:

1. In what ways did the Post WWII Baby Boom create the social phenomenon we know as “The Sixties”?
2. What were the differences in style and sensibility between the 1950’s beatniks and the 1960’s hippies?
3. What is the connection between hippie idealism and living together in big houses?
4. In what ways did the anti-communist Cold War anxiety create the Sixties?