1. Lincoln: Rhetorical Speeches

2. Bellwork:analysis of Civil War images
Based on the tone of the song and the Civil War images, title and caption this video (using strong, accurate diction)
Be prepared to explain your title, etc.

3. Overarching question
Essential question: How did Lincoln’s speeches reflect the changing course and goals of the war?

4. Objectives Objectives:
To understand change over time by analyzing Lincoln’s speeches
To engage in close reading
To determine the context in which each of Lincoln’s speeches was developed and to highlight significant words or phrases indicative of the scope of the time period
To determine why Lincoln chose particular words or phrases, how the meaning of those words or phrases change within one speech and/or across speeches

5. Text set for entire unit:
The First Inaugural Address (1861)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Second Inaugural Address (1865)

6. Common Core Standards
RI11.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole
RI 11.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
RI11.4 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 (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
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 11.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
RI 11.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

7. Get into baseball groups
Using your phones or the computers in the back room (or actual history books) answer the following historical background questions.
(30 minutes)

8. Sourcing the document Referring 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?

9. Lincoln’s Inaugural Address
Pass out copies of the address

10. WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS SAY?
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--

11. Inference
Based on events in in 1861, what might President Lincoln discuss in this first inaugural address and why.
What Rhetorical devices might be effective and why.
(1/2 Page)

12. Group Work: 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)

13. 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)

14. Exit Ticket
After evaluating and interpreting Lincoln’s speech, discuss criteria that you would include in YOUR inaugural speech if you were giving it today.