Elementary School Third to Fifth Grades: Sandburg Through Time

Common Core State Standards
Each lesson identifies which standards it supports. These lessons can be used to plan for a visit to the Sandburg Home or as stand-alone lessons in the classroom.

Overview
Students will explore two of Sandburg's literary genres: autobiography/biography and poetry. Poetry will be read-aloud and physically expressed. Carl Sandburg and Abraham Lincoln are the subjects of autobiography and biography. Mrs. Sandburg's prize-winning dairy goats are the focus of learning about the properties of goats milk, how it's different from cow's milk and how goat's digest differently than humans.

Pre-Visit Lesson: Sandburg Through Time - Growing Up (autobiography)
Pre-Visit Lesson: Sandburg's "Fog" (Poetry)
Pre-Visit Lesson: Connemara Farm (goat vs human digestion)

On-Site Visit Lesson: From Prairie Town Boy to Famous Writer (Identify objects in text)
On-Site Visit Lesson: Sandburg's "Spring Grass" (Poetry)

Post-Visit Lesson: Sandburg and Lincoln (compare Sandburg and Lincoln)
Post-Visit Lesson: Sandburg Through Time - Autobiographical Poem
Post-Visit Lesson: Why Goat's Milk? (Nutrition goat vs. cow milk)