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Freedom Project
Lesson Three/2008-2009
Course/Grade Level: U.S. History 8th Grade
Lesson Title: The Gettysburg Address and its impact on our country.
Teacher: Jim Webb- Lincoln Middle School
1. Set Induction: Honoring all those who have died.
a. Discuss why we celebrate Memorial Day.
b. Students write down people they know who have served in the Armed
Forces.
c. Read Gettysburg Address from the textbook and poster.
d. Go to http://www.PresidentLincoln.org, show students how to navigate
through the site.
2. Aims/Objectives and Standards:
a. Student will gain knowledge of what was said by Lincoln at Gettysburg.
b. Students will gain understanding and importance of Lincoln’s address.
c. Students will apply the principles that Lincoln espoused in the address.
3. Procedures, Assessments and Materials Required:
a. Review Gettysburg Address as part of the Civil War unit.
b. Make use of the Gettysburg Address poster and website.
c. Review the Kids Discover Lincoln booklet.
d. Students will work with partners through the project in their
investigation.
e. Discussion will take place in each area of the project.
4. Resources and Scholarship
a. Creating America: McDougal Textbook
b. Historical Pictures-FlickR/Google Documents
c. http://www.PresidentLincoln.org
d. Gettysburg Address Poster/Lincoln Mosiac
e. Kids Discover- Lincoln booklet
5. Conclusion/Lesson Wrap-up
a. Review parts of the Gettysburg Address.
b. Discuss why Lincoln gave the speech.
c. Come to conclusions as to how this applies today in our world.
d. Students will write out what they have learned from the unit.
U.S. History
Mr. Webb
Abraham Lincoln- Historical Overview
Lincoln Kids Discover
Questions
Abraham Lincoln
1. He became our _____ President. (1861-1865)
2. When and where was he born?
3. First Term__________
Second Term________
4. Age at Inauguration ______
5. Political Party ____________
6. First Lady _______________
7. Children _________________, _________________, ________________,
________________.
Key Events as President
1861
8. How many states seceded to form the Confederate States of America?
9. President of the Confederacy is ____________________.
10. War breaks out at __________ ____________.
11. The Union Army is defeated at the battle of _______________.
1862
12. Confederates are stopped at ____________.
13. The Union is defeated at _______________.
1863
14. What does the Emancipation Proclamation do?
15. Where are Confederates defeated at?
16. Where does Grant win at?
17. Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address.
1864
18. Who is made commander of all union forces?
19. What city does the confederacy abandon?
1865
20. The Union Army captures _____________, the capital of the Confederacy.
21. Who surrenders at Appomattox?
22. Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
U.S. History
Mr. Webb
Gettysburg Address
McDougal Littell pg. 524
A Closer Look (Lincoln’s Modesty)
1. What features of Lincoln’s address make it so memorable?
Fighting for a Cause
2. What cause is Lincoln referring to in the Gettysburg Address?
Main Ideas: Gettysburg Address
a. Founding Fathers created a nation based on equality.
b. Fighting a war to preserve the nation.
c. We are here to dedicate a cemetery as part of the battlefield.
d. What the soldiers did at Gettysburg did is the most important thing, not what the living
do to honor them now.
e. The living must dedicate themselves to finishing the work of the soldiers to make sure
that freedom will survive and that democracy will endure.
Notes provided by Creating America.
Terms to Know
3. score4. consecrate-
5. detract-
6. take increased devotion to-
7. gave the last full measure-
8. in vainGettysburg Address poster, http://www.PresidentLincoln.org
Investigation Questions
9. When was it given?
Think About It
10. Who are the founding fathers?
11.What is meant by a new birth of freedom? (clue: Consider the Emancipation
Proclamation.)
12. What is the main message of the address?
13. What do you think is the last full measure of devotion?
14. Why does he say the dead shall not have died in vain?
Battle of Gettysburg
15. List three facts about the Battle of Gettysburg?
16. List three facts about the aftermath?
A Great Speech
17. Why did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address?
18. What new reason for fighting did Lincoln give to Americans?
Myth or Fact
19. Give two myths and then three facts which clear up the myths.
a. Myth/Fact
b. Myth/Fact
20. Go to http://www.PresidentLincoln.org
Click on the Lincoln Mosiac- Choose two pictures to investigate.
Click on Pictures to gain more background.
Record your findings about the people.
a.
b.