Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] Lesson Plan

The New York School

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the relationship between O'Hara's work and that of his contemporaries

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4

Structure:

Briefly introduce students to the New York School, the poetic movement to which O'Hara belongs. This brief Academy of American Poets article might be a good place to start; you might show the work of abstract expressionist painters or play the music of John Cage, since the New York School was not limited to poetry. What do students think defines the work of the New York School beyond poetry?

Divide students into four...