fri, 9/14/14 in response to video scenes, write down the following questions and answer them in...
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In response to reading the Gettysburg Address: Questions: (1) What does it mean, “Four score and seven years ago … a new nation conceived in liberty?” (2) Why do you suppose he says, “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here?” (3) What does it mean when Lincoln says, “last full measure of devotion?” (4) What does it mean when Lincoln says, “a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth?”TRANSCRIPT
Fri, 9/14/14
In response to Video scenes, write down the following questions and answer them in response to watching the video clips:
Questions:
(1) What is the potential problem with the Emancipation Proclamation?
(2) Why is the 13th Amendment needed?
(3) What do these scenes tell us about the character and personality of President Lincoln?
Abraham LincolnFebruary 12, 1809 - Lincoln is born. 1832 - He is elected for the first time to the Illinois General Assembly. 1836 through 1840 - He is elected three more times to the Illinois General Assembly. 1842 - Marries Mary Todd Lincoln, his wife throughout his lifetime 1846 - Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 1855 & 1859 - Loses legislature’s vote for the Senate for Illinois. Nov. 6, 1860 - Wins 1860 Presidential Election Jan. 1, 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation Nov. 19, 1863 - Delivers the “Gettysburg Address”
April 9, 1865 - General Lee surrenders April 14, 1865 - Shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies the next day
In response to reading the Gettysburg Address:
Questions:
(1) What does it mean, “Four score and seven years ago … a new nation conceived in liberty?”
(2) Why do you suppose he says, “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here?”
(3) What does it mean when Lincoln says, “last full measure of devotion?”
(4) What does it mean when Lincoln says, “a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth?”