The Emergence of a Counterculture https://www. cabarrus. k12.nc. us/cms/lib09/NC01910456/Centricity/ Domain/4134/5-Counterculture%20Read ing%203.pdf

How was Bob Dylan unlike some of the other performers of the time?

Explain in your own words what Bob Dylan is saying in his song “The Times They Are A-Changin’”.

What were the driving factors (the reasons) that led people to believe that society in the United States needed to change?

How did the baby boomers have an impact on the growth of the counterculture movement?

What were the differences between the “New Left” and the “Old Left”?

What was the significance of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?

What happened at Berkeley and how did that event impact college campuses around the country?

How did the physical appearance of “hippies” fit in to what they believed?

Explain (don’t just list) some of the core beliefs of the counterculture movement?

What does the article mean when it talks about a generation gap?

Why did “the mainstream” have such a hard time accepting the counterculture movement and their beliefs?

What were the four core beliefs listed of mainstream Americans, and how did each differ from those of the counterculture movement?

List what you believe the three biggest takeaways are from the section, “Changing Views of Love and Marriage.”

Explain the idea of a “commune” and why many parents were so against this type of lifestyle.

How did the drug culture of the counterculture movement impact the federal government?

Where did the name “Flower Children” come from?

Why did many mainstream adults worry that the music of the movement led to an increase in drug use?

How did the two concerts listed (Woodstock and Altamont) show two very different sides of the counterculture movement? (We are going to talk more about these two concerts later this week.)

Explain the “dual nature” of the protest movement and why people in the mainstream were not able to separate the different groups.

There is a photograph of a family on page 3 of the packet that is from a television show…name the show.