Education World
Every-day Edit: Hobo Turned Poet
Pupils proofread a short paragraph about Carl Sandburg. The errors span capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Useful as a warm-up and language conventions review. Go over it together as a class verbally and have individual...
Curated OER
Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
Carl Sandburg composed poetry that conveyed a time and place in American Literature and history. Learners identify the literary techniques he uses to describe the historical and cultural context of living in Chicago. They define the...
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Prairie Poetry
Ninth graders take note of the ways in which word choice, rhythm, language and narrative voice, as well as point of view in a poem can be used to evoke a time and place. They use their insights to create a poem of their own.
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Poetic Analysis
Students write a poetic analysis on a poem by Carl Sandburg. They take their previous knowledge of poetic devices and apply them to a piece of writing that displays their knowledge on a specific poem. They explain what they know about a...
Curated OER
Poetry Writing
Students compose a piece of poetry modeled after the poetry of Carl Sandburg and share their poem(s) with their colleagues. They use a cluster diagram to organize their thoughts and brainstorm their ideas.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Carl Sandburg
Maintained by the University of Toronto, this site provides an extremely brief biography and a number of Sandburg's poems, including "Chicago," "Fog," Grass," and "They Will Say."
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Carl Sandburg
Maintained by the Academy of American Poets, this website offers a good biography of Sandburg, plus links to four of his poems, a bibliography, and links to other Sandburg-related sites. Nice resource.
Other
Poem Hunter: Carl Sandburg
This site includes the e-text to 205 poems written by Carl Sandburg.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Wilderness
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Languages
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
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...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Sandburg on Race
This article from the University of Illinois covers the work of Carl Sandburg as a reporter in Chicago during the riots of 1919.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Pegasos Literature Resources: Carl Sandburg
This website provides a decent biography of Sandburg, along with the text of his poem "Be Ready," and a good list of Sandburg's major works.
University of Michigan
American Verse Project: Cornhuskers, by Carl Sandburg
Maintained by the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan, this site provides the entire text of Sandburg's collection of poetry, "Cornhuskers."
Other
Carl Sandburg: Chicago Poems
This website offers the complete e-text of Sandburg's "Chicago Poems," plus a biography and the Carl Sandburg Discussion Group.
Chicago History Museum
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Carl Sandburg, the Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
Read a part of an article written by Carl Sandburg for the Chicago Daily News reporting on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
Other
Eastland Memorial Society: Carl Sandburg
This website offers a biography of Sandburg, along with links to five of his poems: "Eastland," "Chicago," "Cool Tombs," "Fog," and "Blue Island."
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Carl Sandburg
This site offers a short biography of Sandburg, along with links to e-texts of two of his works, "Chicago Poems" and "Cornhuskers."
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Sandburg's "Chicago Poems"
This website offers the complete online text of Carl Sandburg's "Chicago Poems." Each poem is available in a separate link. By clicking on "Contents" at the top of page, students can link to an index of titles and first lines from all...
Other
Lisa Lee's Carl Sandburg Page
This website offers a very detailed time-line biography of Sandburg, along with the text of his poem "Home Thoughts," an explication of that poem, a bibliography, and pictures.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Illinois Poets
This overview for Illinois includes information on the poet laureate for the state. Other sections include featured poets (Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg) and poems specifically about Illinois.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Rhythms in Poetry: Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg is featured in this biography for his politically socialistic poetry which, unlike his contemporaries tended to focus more on content then meter and rhythm. Click on "Carl Sandburg Activities" for related artifacts and...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Wisconsin Poets
Poets.org provides an overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for Wisconsin includes information on the poet laureate, Denise Sweet. Other sections include featured poets (Lorine Niedecker and Carl Sandburg) and poems...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
Maintained by the Academy of American Poets, this website offers the text of Sandburg's poem "Chicago."