“The First Inaugural Address” Lincoln

1. “The First Inaugural Address”Lincoln Get out your paper, and pencil.

2. Common Core Standards • RI 11.4 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 • 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 11.3: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events, interact and develop over the course of the text. • Objectives: • Chart sequence of events to find significance in speeches • To understand how the diction and tone of Lincoln’s speeches changed over time based on the events of the Civil War

3. Bell Work: Analysis of Civil War Images www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjM6zjwi4R0 Based on the tone of the song and the Civil War images, title and caption this video (using strong, accurate words) Be prepared to explain your title, etc.

4. Historical Timeline Requirements Lincoln’s birth date and death date Beginning and end of the Civil War 3 major battle from the Civil War 4 things you find interesting about the 1860s (inventions, expansions, international affairs, domestic affairs, etc.) Dates of the following speeches: “The First Inaugural Address” “The Second Inaugural Address” “Emancipation Proclamation” “The Gettysburg Address” 15 Dates and Events

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

6. Sourcing the documentReferring 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?

7. Annotation: What is it? a note of explanation or comment added to a text. Tone: an expression of attitude Ex. Wow! Isn’t it cold out there? (Friendly and unconcerned) Vs. I can’t even handle how freezing it is. Don’t even look at me right now. (Angry and antisocial) Diction: specific word choice Ex. Hey. How are you doing this evening? VS. Yo. What up?

8. Modeling: 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)

9. 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--

10. Individual Work: Do paragraphs 4-13 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)

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12. Homework: Finish the annotating for 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)

13. Discussion Questions