Lincoln

 

1/31 chapters 24 and Abraham Lincoln

2/1 chapters 25-26

2/2 chapters27-28

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2/6 Emily Dickinson

2/7 Emily Dickinson

2/8 Walt Whitman

2/9 Walt Whitman

2/1031-32

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2/14 35-36

  Today and tonight we will read Abraham Lincoln. 

He is a question from a future exam:

4) Discuss Lincoln's purpose in "The Gettysburg Address" and his "Second Inaugural Address".  Give a summary of the "Emancipation Proclamation" and how its form reinforces it idea.

So as we read today you need to figure out Lincoln's purpose in his two speeches, "The Gettysburg Address" and his "Second Inaugural Address" and write these purposes out with examples from that text on your blog.  (Each of these should be a paragraph). 

Example - Abraham Lincoln's purpose in "The Gettysburg Address" is to......  This can be scene by his.... and ....  He uses these examples to reinforce the idea that .....

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address 

"The Gettysburg Address" and "The Emancipation Proclamation" can be found on pages 584-590.