Advanced Placement: Bonus: Odyssey Lesson Plan, Drugs

5. Today’s Lesson: Drugs, forgetting about the past, family, home.

BOP: Read Howl, applying the Poetry System to prepare for a graded discussion after viewing and studying “Strawberry Fields” by the Beatles.

Comparative Literature has a reoccurring theme: Get Back Home.  For Odysseus, it was returning to Ithaca.  For Ginsburg, adopting a way of life, a new way of living.  For John Lennon, embracing the hallucination.  Enjoy this small lesson in connection with the Lotos Eaters--who tried to steal the goal of returning home.  (Remember Dorothy from "the Wizard of Oz" who said, "There's no place like home."

 John Brovsky