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Planning: Partners in Freedom

Activity Description

Students compare Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to excerpts from Sandburg's writing and poetry.

Classroom Use

For groups or individual study; teacher assistance

Time: 30 minutes, 1 hour if include Lincoln in-context activity; 90 min. if include Gettysburg Guess as well.

Material: Use of computer; dictionary; copies of Gettysburg Address if necessary.

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North Carolina Competency Goals Covered

Grades: 6th - 8th


Subject: English Language Arts


Competency Goals: 2.01, 6.01