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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students examine primary source documents including photographs, film, maps, and essays to learn about Chicago at the turn of the 20th century and Carl Sandburg's famous poem. After examining the poem's use of...