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.

This website offers the complete e-text of Sandburg's "Chicago Poems," plus a biography and the Carl Sandburg Discussion Group.

Read a part of an article written by Carl Sandburg for the Chicago Daily News reporting on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.