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LEARN ABOUT: Edgar Lee Masters

It is time to surf the net and see what else is out there related to Spoon River Anthology. Visit the following sites and find the necessary information to answer the questions. (If you are able to, open this web page in Netscapes Editor… you may type in your answers here and print the file to turn into your teacher. Using Windows you should easily be able to click back and forth between the sites you visit and your answer page) This is a classwork assignment. Have fun!!!!

1. Click on the following site address. http://gsbkmc.uchicago.edu/parker/museum97/masters1.html

What happened 7 years after Edgar Lee Masters graduated from high school?

How old was Masters when the radio was invented?

What happened in 1943 on the timeline?

2. Take the virtual Spoon River Scenic Drive.Click on the following address: http://www.outfitters.com/illinois/fulton/srd-tour1.html

What is the name of Edgar Lee Masters Home town?

What is the name of the cemetary that serves as the basis for Spoon River Anthology?

Now that you have answered the questions above find two more pieces of information about Edgar Lee Masters that was not included in your answers above.You may look around in either site to find a piece of information.

3. Write the new pieces of information you discovered about Edgar Lee Masters here:

LEARN ABOUT: Edgar Lee Masters

To complete this assignment: save this page with your answers to your disk. Call it Masters.

If you are directed to do so by your teacher, print the file.

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