Theme: Workshop 1 End-of-Workshop

A. Children have strength that amazes adults.
B. Work steals something important from children.
C. Adults care more about nature than children do.
D. Work is good for children, even if they mind it.

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​What is a theme of “They Will Say”?

They Will Say
by Carl Sandburg

Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this:
You took little children away from the sun and the dew,
And the glimmers that played in the grass under the great sky,
And the reckless rain; you put them between walls
To work, broken and smothered, for bread and wages,
To eat dust in their throats and die empty-hearted
For a little handful of pay on a few Saturday nights

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Multiple Choice

17. What is a theme of “They Will Say”?

• Children have strength that amazes adults

• Work steals something important from children.

• Adults care more about nature than children do.

• Work is good for children, even if they mind it.

A. The city is an unsafe place for working children.
B. Many adults never notice the city’s beauty.
C. People enjoy the city when their work is done.
D. Children will like the city when they are older

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​18. What idea about the city is expressed in “They Will Say”?

They Will Say
by Carl Sandburg

Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this:
You took little children away from the sun and the dew,
And the glimmers that played in the grass under the great sky,
And the reckless rain; you put them between walls
To work, broken and smothered, for bread and wages,
To eat dust in their throats and die empty-hearted
For a little handful of pay on a few Saturday nights

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Multiple Choice

18. What idea about the city is expressed in “They Will Say”?

• The city is an unsafe place for working children.

• Many adults never notice the city’s beauty.

• People enjoy the city when their work is done.

• Children will like the city when they are older

Multiple Choice

19. Read the following lines from “Mill-Doors.”

The hopeless open doors that call and wait

And take you then for—how many cents a day?

How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers?

What lesson about work does the speaker express in these lines from the poem?

• Everyone needs to work hard to make money.

• Working is a waste of time and energy

• Everyone who works hard is wealthy.

• Working too much is harmful.

A successful.
B hopeful.
C difficult.
D calm.

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In “Mill-Doors,” the speaker suggests that the worker’s future will be

Mill-Doors
by Carl Sandburg

You never come back.
I say good-by when I see you going in the doors,
The hopeless open doors that call and wait
And take you then for—how many cents a day?
How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers?

I say good-by because I know they tap your wrists,
In the dark, in the silence, day by day,
And all the blood of you drop by drop,
And you are old before you are young.
You never come back.

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Multiple Choice

In “Mill-Doors,” the speaker suggests that the worker’s future will be

• successful

• hopeful

• difficult

• calm