1. Focus Question
In what ways is equality a proposition, or belief, worth fighting for?

2. What do you know about Abraham Lincoln?

3. You have 1 MINUTE. Write down as many facts as you can about Abraham Lincoln.

4. Tally Your Points 1-2 facts = 1 point 3-5 facts = 2 points

8. General George G. Meade UNION

9. General Robert E. Lee CONFEDERACY

10. More than
50,000
dead
or hurt.

13. Legislation to create national cemeteries

17. Word Whiz In Your Own Words
Your group has definitions of some words from a part of the Gettysburg Address.
Your job is to review the words and their definitions and use them to help you re-write the text in your own words.

20. Catch My Drift: Word Repetition
we = 10 times
here = 8 times
dedicate or dedicated = 6 times
nation = 5 times

23. Catch My Drift: Word Challenge
nation ~ dedicate(d) ~ here ~ we
Create a sentence that contains these 4 words and no more than 12 total words that summarizes the purpose of this speech. In other words, what did Lincoln want people to remember, or take away, from it?

24. Telltale Techniques: Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical devices call attention to and strengthen ideas.
Contrasts: putting two opposite ideas in one thought
Triads: repeating three related thoughts, usually using similar grammar

25. Telltale Techniques: Contrasts
“To be or not to be . . .” William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
“The best means of insuring peace is to be prepared for war.” Alexander Hamilton
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Mohammad Ali

26. Telltale Techniques: Triads
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.”
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness” Declaration of Independence
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Sir Winston Churchill

27. ID It: Text Structures Cause and Effect Chronological Order
Compare and Contrast
Description
Problem - Solution

28. ID It: Text Structure
Chronological Order
Past
Present
Future

29. ID It: Past

30. ID It: Present

31. ID It: Future

32. ID It: Clues to the Past
What is the year President Lincoln is referring to in this passage?

33. ID It: Clues to the Past
Which word and which phrase in this passage refers to a famous historic document?

34. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal. . .
with certain unalienable Rights. . . among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

35. ID It: Clues to the Past

36. Jan. 1, 1863

37. ID It: Call to Action
In persuasive writing, particularly in speeches, the writer makes a call to action. This call to action asks or encourages the audience to do something about a problem.

38. ID It: Call to Action