A.A.C.T.+-+Jordan+Wendel

My name is Jordan Wendel.

**Characterization**: How does Lincoln characterize the soldiers who died during the Battle of Gettysburg? Support your answer. As the soldiers who died that the nation might live with no slavery ; they lived with bravery to the end of their lives.
 * Write one more sentence telling what we should do because of their deaths.

**Evidence/ Inference**: What inferences can you make about Lincoln’s hopes for the future of the United States? What evidence supports your answer? He hoped that the future would be better for the slaves because he's fighting for no slavery. "...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."

**Theme/Concept**: What does Lincoln’s address say about the concept of liberty? That our country was created when our founding fathers came to this land and created the constitution, but we weren't following what was written by having slavery. (Freedom/ liberty is worth fighting for/ should be cherished. -1/2)

**Paraphrasing**: In your own words, paraphrase Lincoln’s statement, “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.” "We, the people who are were not in the great Civil War, must finish what the brave soldiers died for; fighting for the freedom without slavery."

**Summarizing**: In 2-4 sentences, summarize the message Lincoln is trying to convey to the American people. He is trying to tell the American people that slavery is wrong and it has been from the very beginning when our founding fathers created the Constitution. Not only do the soldiers need to fight for against slavery, but people who aren't in the war should fight as well. Not with weapons, but by the main idea that slavery is wrong (?? -1/2) like using protests and other works.

**Creative Synthesis**: Pretend you are a stakeholder from the audience (e.g. mother/ father/ sibling of a soldier, a soldier, a congressional leader, the secretary of war, etc.) who has just heard “The Gettysburg Address.” How would you react to the message of Lincoln’s speech? Create a reaction to “The Gettysburg Address.” Write a paragraph with 6 or more sentences. I would think that Lincoln is right and we all need to do something about it. I would start protests against slavery and get as many people as i could to sign a petition that states that our country should be free. I would go to the leader of my state and show the petition and demand it to go to the South so we could show them the affect effect or result that slavery does do people. I would tell my northern? family in the war that what they're doing is right and that they should keep it up. If i were a congressional leader, i would talk to some of the leaders of the South and make negotiations with them to stop the war so no more innocent people would die. I would do anything i could to help out so the war would end and slavery would be no more.

__12__/ 14 (Fix the first answer for one more point.)