“The First Inaugural Address”Lincoln

Get out your paper, and pencil.

Common Core Standards

  RI 11.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a

text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text

RI 11.5 Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole.

RI 11.3: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events, interact and develop over the course of the text.

Objectives: Chart sequence of events to find significance in speeches To understand how the diction and tone of Lincoln’s speeches changed over time

based on the events of the Civil War

Literature Standard Date Taught

Date Tested

Emancipation Proclamation

RI 4RI 5RI 3

2/11-12/2014

TBA

Bell Work: Analysis of Civil War Images

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Based on the tone of the song and the Civil War images, title and caption this video (using strong, accurate words)

Be prepared to explain your title, etc.

Historical Timeline

RequirementsLincoln’s birth date and death dateBeginning and end of the Civil War3 major battle from the Civil War4 things you find interesting about the 1860s (inventions, expansions, international affairs, domestic affairs, etc.)Dates of the following speeches:

“The First Inaugural Address”“The Second Inaugural Address”“Emancipation Proclamation”“The Gettysburg Address”

15 Dates and Events

Lincoln’s Inaugural Address

Pass out copies of the address

Sourcing the documentReferring to previous learning

Why begin here? What do we know about this author? In what time is he writing? What important events have

occurred which help set the context of this speech?

What is the purpose of the inaugural address?

What do you think Lincoln hopes to accomplish in this speech?

Annotation: What is it? a note of explanation or

comment added to a text. Tone: an expression of

attitude Ex. Wow! Isn’t it cold out

there? (Friendly and unconcerned)

Vs. I can’t even handle how

freezing it is. Don’t even look at me right now. (Angry and antisocial)

Diction: specific word choice Ex. Hey. How are you

doing this evening? VS. Yo. What up?

Modeling: Read and annotate Lincoln’s Inaugural

Address

Summarize each paragraph

Underline/highlight words you cannot define based on context clues

Circle words that are repeated

Discuss the tone of the speech (write in margins)

In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of this office."

I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement.

Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that--

Individual Work: Do paragraphs 4-13

Read and annotate Lincoln’s Inaugural Address

Summarize each paragraph

Underline/highlight words you cannot define based on context clues

Circle words that are repeated

Discuss the tone of the speech (write in margins)

Group Discussion

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Homework: Finish the annotating for homework.

Read and annotate Lincoln’s Inaugural Address

Summarize each paragraph Underline/highlight words you

cannot define based on context clues Circle words that are repeated Discuss the tone of the speech (write

in margins)

Discussion Questions