Sandburg and Masters
Epithet: define here (p. 1250 or 1378)
TONE: p. 824
Pros
City Life
Country
Life
Cons
Variety of people
Entertainment
Job opportunities
Things are close together
WIFI
Traffic
Crime/gangs
Crowded
Higher taxes
Pollution
expensive
Quiet
Space
Nature
Less crime
Everybody knows everybody
See the stars
Outdoor sports
Bugs
Stormy, brawling
Less friends
Lonely
Wild animals
Far from everything
Boring
Dark at night
City of the Big
Shoulders
Stacker of Wheat
prostitutes
“CHICAGO”
Gangsters,
capone
crime,
Snap-out
dances
12 children
70 years married
“Lucinda Matlock”
8 died before her
96 years old
Nursed the sick
Made cloth and clothes
Do question:
p. 828, #8
If I had a choice I would rather live in Sandburg’s Chicago than
in Matlock’s Spoon River because . . . . (list 3 reasons)
P. 829, writing option #1 (4 line stanza)
Evergreen Park is the “Village of Churches”: Holy Redeemer, St.
Bernadette, and Jacob’s Well
Evergreen Park is a village of businesses: Pappy’s, Culver’s,
Pizza Man, and Barraco’s
Evergreen Park is a village of parks: Circle Park, Aqua Park,
Duffy Park, Candy Cane Park, and Cowboy Park
Evergreen Park: boring, quiet, small, safe, bland, suburban and
urban, close- knit
We welcome newcomers and miss those who are gone.