Day2

July 2, 2010 Day 2 and 3

Read the Gettysburg Address on page 444 and answer questions 1-7 on page 445. Read Carl Sandburg pages 786-796 and answer questions 1-7 on 796 Read Carl Sandburg pages 839-840 and answer questions 1-4 on 841

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Pg. 444

1) All men are created equal. 2) It is testing whether the nation can longedure. 3) The people are gather at the The Dedication of the Gettysburg National. The people have gathered because Lincoln was making a speech. 4) To bring the nation together as one and not to let those men die in vein. 5) A lot of people will die cause of the war, people will realize that working together will start a new begining. 6) To bring together a divided nation. 7) It makes the people realize that they can do better and doing so the rebirth of the nation is everyone coming as one.

Pg.786-796

1) The Civil War was taking place at this time. This changed everything because lincoln was able to make his arguement on equality. 2) Lincoln said "i have two, and you have none", he called the military to let one of her son's go. She saw her son die out of wounds and so she went back to the president to ask him to let her other sons come home and so the president wrote another letter saying to let go of the lady son's. 3) Lincoln responds by saying,"In my position it is sometimes important that I should not say foolish things..." 4) It was an hour and fifty-seven minutes. Mr. Lamon was the person to anounce when the president was goin to give his speech 5) lincoln regreted that he should of prepared the speech with better care. Everett's opinion was that lincoln's speech was nothing like his because Everett took a longer time. 6) Mr. Sandburg's thinks highly of Lincoln and he knows a lot of Abraham Lincoln. 7) Lincoln's speech was more out to the people and government, like in his speech he used specific things from the Decloration of Independence to interpret his speech.

Pg. 839-840 1) The grass grows to cover up the bodies. People ask," Where are we now","What place is this? 2) The grass will cover up what ever has been done. The attitude is that the bodies that are buried will be covered by grass. 3) None of the passengers know what happened there so, people died in vein. 4) Sandburg is suggesting that war can never be forgotten or covered is just that as years go by new things shall happen. The purpose of the poem is that anything can happen but if you give it somtime, somthing wonderful comes out of it.