Lincoln: Rhetorical Speeches
Bellwork: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 diction)
• Be prepared to explain your title, etc.
Overarching question
• Essential question: How did Lincoln’s speeches
reflect the changing course and goals of the
war?
Objectives
• Objectives:
• To understand change over time by analyzing Lincoln’s
speeches
• To engage in close reading
– To determine the context in which each of Lincoln’s
speeches was developed and to highlight significant words
or phrases indicative of the scope of the time period
– To determine why Lincoln chose particular words or
phrases, how the meaning of those words or phrases
change within one speech and/or across speeches
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Text set for entire unit:
The First Inaugural Address (1861)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Common Core Standards
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RI11.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources,
connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole
RI 11.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an
accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
RI11.4 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 (e.g., how
Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
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 11.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and
media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a
problem.
RI 11.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent
understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
Get into baseball groups
• Using your phones or the computers in the
back room (or actual history books) answer
the following historical background questions.
• (30 minutes)
Sourcing the document
Referring to previous learning
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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?
Lincoln’s Inaugural Address
• Pass out copies of the address
WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS SAY?
• 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--
Inference
• Based on events in in 1861, what might
President Lincoln discuss in this first inaugural
address and why.
• What Rhetorical devices might be effective
and why.
• (1/2 Page)
Group Work:
• 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)
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)
Exit Ticket
• After evaluating and interpreting Lincoln’s
speech, discuss criteria that you would include
in YOUR inaugural speech if you were giving it
today.