Agenda

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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
• Read the Gettysburg Address
• 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
  Lincolns historic speech. Write an article
  describing the events through your point of view.
  

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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 - BATTLE 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
  ("Picketts 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.

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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

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Work Period

• Red Group
• 1. Who wrote the Gettysburg Address an
• 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?