Write a poem about your own hometown, city, or neighborhood using “Chicago” as a model. Like Sandburg, they address the place as if it were a person and create a litany of names for it as he does in the first five lines. Vary line lengths and use capitalization liberally as Sandburg does.

Hamlet: ] it will but skin and film the ulcerous place, whiles rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen. confess yourself to heaven; repent what’s past; avoid what is to come; and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker. —hamlet, william shakespeare what is the central motif in the passage? the passage of time madness disease and decay gardening

Drag each label to the correct location. in "sinners in the hands of an angry god," jonathan edwards compares a number of different items to either nonbelievers or to the wrath of god. match each item to one of these categories. chaff rough wind spider falling rock bow storm

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.