Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
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- Aug 8 2010 1:20 PM
Matching // Celeste Higby
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In this EDSITEment lesson, students look at Carl Sandburg's poem, "Chicago," in a literary, historical and biographical context. Students examine primary photographs, maps and other documents that depict the city at the turn of the century and then read the poem to identify the ways in which Sandburg uses literary techniques such as personification and apostrophe to make vivid the Chicago he knew. Finally, students use "Chicago" as a model for writing original pieces about places that are important to them.
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Grade: 9 to 12
Topics: History-Social Science, Literature, English-Language Arts
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ELA.11-12.R.NAGLAT.3.4. Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and...
ELA.11-12.W.2.2b Write responses to literature that analyze the use of imagery, language, univers...
ELA.9-10.R.LC.3.12 Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issue...
ELA.9-10.R.NAGLAT.3.6 Analyze and trace an author's development of time and sequence, including the us...