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Third Reading: How do you know?
Explain the connection between the details you notice and your interpretation of these details. How might you use the details in the photograph to support the inferences you have made?
Writing Prompt: Now that you have carefully examined this photograph and identified many of its features, make a connection between this photograph and Dickinson’s poem. Be sure to:
• Write a topic sentence that connects the two texts.
• Include textual details and explain how they support your connection. • Write a conclusion that follows from your explanations.
ACTIvITy 3
Independent Practice
The following poem was written by Carl Sandburg in 1914. Born in Illinois in 1878, Sandburg left school at the age of thirteen and worked as a milkman, porter, bricklayer, farm laborer, hotel servant, and coal heaver before he began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. He went on to win three Pulitzer Prizes, two for poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
First Reading: First Impressions
Read the poem silently to yourself. As you read, think about the meanings of
the underlined words. Look at the definitions in the margin, and also use your knowledge of the words and context clues to help you make meaning of the text.
aCademiC VoCabulaRy
Personification refers to a type of metaphor in which an idea, thing, or animal is given human qualities or abilities.
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