Contemporary Views: After Notes on Camp
This handout explores the legacy of “Notes on ‘Camp’” through the scholarly and artistic works it has inspired.
ART & LIT LESSON 4: HANDOUT 4
1 class period (45-60 min)
VIDEO:
Notes on Camp Video and Transcript
HANDOUTS:
Handout 1 (as needed)
Handout 2 (as needed)
Handout 3 (as needed)
Handout 4
TEACHING PLAN:
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
- History and Social Studies
People > LGBT
Themes > Culture
Themes > Politics and Citizenship
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Drama
Genre > Essay
Place > American
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Auditory analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Media analysis
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Using primary sources
- Using secondary sources
- Visual analysis
- Visual art analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 7, 10
- ELA Writing: 9
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- ELA Language: 4, 6
- HSS Reading: 1-2, 6-10
- HSS Writing: 9
CONTINUE THIS LESSON
Complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign longer selections or the full text of LaBruce’s “Notes on Camp—and Anti-Camp,” Turner’s When Gertrude Met Susan, and/or Pellegrini’s “After Sontag” in advance, in place of handout excerpts; consider including Fran Lebowitz’s “Notes on ‘Trick’” in The Fran Lebowitz Reader (as age-appropriate).
- Allow additional time for students to research additional scholarly and artistic responses to “Notes on ‘Camp’,” or to Sontag’s persona as it relates to Camp sensibility, using resources from the Art & Literature Unit Research and/or Identity Unit Research handouts, then compare these works to the handout examples.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.