1. Agenda EQ: How did the Civil War impact the United States?  Warm-Up: 1) Watch video and answer what were the differences between union and confederate soldiers?  MLQ: How can we learn about the Battle of Gettysburg by analyzing primary source documents? Vocabulary Imperative: extremely urgent or important Causality: the relationship of cause and effect It is imperative that you complete your exit projects. The person fell as a causality of the floor being wet. Work period: Students will: 1)Read the Gettysburg Address 2)Answer tiered questions  Share: Share answers  Closing: Summary of lesson H.W. Imagine you are a reporter and watched the Battle of Gettysburg as well as witnessed Lincoln’s historic speech. Write an article describing the events through your point of view.

2. Gettysburg – turning point Lee realized that the South was losing and decided that it was important to attack the North on its own territory July 1-3, 1863 - B ATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, Pa. Confederates bombardment the Union, but they held firm July 3, General Pickett led 15,000 Confederate Troops across open fields - Union mowed them down (" Pickett’s Charge ") Lee was defeated and retreated to Virginia Gettysburg is the largest battle in the history of the Western hemisphere. Over 100, 000 people died in 3 days  It was the last time the South invaded the North.

3. Gettysburg Address that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abe Lincoln

5. Work Period Red Group: 1. Who wrote the Gettysburg Address an 1.d why? 2. What is the main message of the address? 3. How does Lincoln describe the United States? Green Group: 4. Why does Lincoln refer to the founding fathers? 5. What does the speech say the soldiers are fighting for? 6.What does Lincoln believe the purpose of war to be? Blue Group: 7. What lesson does Lincoln say we can learn from this battle? 8. What does Lincoln mean by a “new birth of freedom”? Whose freedom is he talking about? 9. Why is the speech considered one of the most important in American History? 10. Do you feel that the proposition “that all men are created equal” has been advanced or not since Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address?