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The Mini Page — 2009 Activities
Lincoln's Great Speech
Issue 6
Feb. 7-13
This week's standards:
- Students understand people and events honored in commemorative holidays. (Social Studies: History)
- Students understand that history relates to events and people of other times and places by identifying examples of interesting Americans. (Social Studies: History)
Activities:
1. Draw a memorial plaque for the soldiers who fought at Gettysburg. Cut out newspaper words that describe the soldiers and paste them on your plaque. Share your drawing with your family.
2. Use information from today's Mini Page to make a travel brochure for Gettysburg. Include information about important buildings, the battle and famous people.
3. Look in the newspaper for speeches made by our new president, Barack Obama. Select phrases you like and write them on a piece of paper. Explain why you think Obama made good language choices in his speeches.
4. Abraham Lincoln was a careful writer. Look up these words from the Gettysburg Address and discuss what they mean with a family member or friend: (a) civil war, (b) consecrate, and (c) in vain. Why did Lincoln mean when he said some soldiers gave the "last full measure" of devotion? Why do you think he used "four score and seven" instead of saying "87"?
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about your state's activities during the Civil War. Use these questions to guide your research: Which side did your state take during the Civil War? What did people in your state do to support the side they selected? What battles or military activities took place in your state or in neighboring states? How did your state change after the Civil War ended?
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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