Monday:   Review Sectionalism; State Rights vs. Federal Rights, Lincoln’s election as President of the United States in 1860

Tuesday:  Explain significant military and political leaders as well as major military battles/ events of the Civil War.  Assign the Civil War StoryBoard activity.  Due Friday

Wednesday:  Continue with explaining significant military and political leaders as well as major military battles/ events of the Civil War. (Work on the Civil War StoryBoard. 

Thursday:   Analyze the leadership qualities of President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

Friday:   Analyze the leadership qualities of President Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address.(November 19, 1863)

Students will memorize the first 2 paragraphs of the Gettysburg Address for a test grade.  (By next Thursday, March 28)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — 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.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

 

IMPORTANT DATES:   STAAR TESTS:

APRIL 10:  READING TEST

APRIL 23:  SOCIAL STUDIES TEST

APRIL 24:   SCIENCE TEST

APRIL 30:  MATH TEST