English 11 Literature #16 Mr. Rinka Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain.

English 11 Literature #16

Mr. Rinka

Abraham LincolnMark Twain

Abraham Lincolnhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War


– preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the US House of Representatives,

but failed in two attempts to be elected to the United States Senate.After opposing the expansion of slavery in the United States in his campaign debates and speeches, Lincoln secured the Republican nomination and was elected President in 1860. Before Lincoln took office in March, seven southern

slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy. When war began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on both the military and political dimensions of the war effort, seeking to reunify the nation. He vigorously exercised unprecedented war powers,

including the arrest and detention without trial of thousands of suspected secessionists. He prevented British recognition of the Confederacy by skillfully handling the Trent affair in 1861. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United

States Constitution, abolishing slavery. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant. He brought leaders of various factions of his party into his cabinet and pressured them to cooperate. Under his leadership, the Union set

up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond. Each time a general failed, Lincoln

substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865. A very astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction,

seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. But six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at

Ford's Theatre. His death was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the northern parts of the country into mourning. Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents.





Gettysburg Addresshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the most well-known speeches in United States history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the

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Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two

minutes, Lincoln addressed the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the preservation and holding together of the Union, "which had been split by the secession crisis", but as "a new birth of freedom"

which in a new Union would bring true equality to all of its citizens, which would ensure that democracy would remain a viable form of government and which would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant.

Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address-Analysis

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htm1st Paragraph:

87 years before this event, the United States of America was founded on the principles of liberty and the equality of all men.

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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htm2nd Paragraph:

The civil war now being fought tests whether that sort of nation founded on democratic values can actually work and survive.



http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htm3rd Paragraph:

The dedication of the Gettysburg Battlefield is a fitting tribute to the men who died fighting for this nation and the principles upon which it was founded.



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Though this ceremony is dedicating this battlefield to the men who fought for this cause, those men who foughttruly consecrated this field with their blood.



http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htmWhat is said on their behalf will be soon be forgotten, but what they did never will.



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Greater than the words of dedication spoken here is the work ahead for the living to finish the task of keeping that country together for which these men fought and died.



http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htmAll efforts must be dedicated to this cause so that these men did not die in vain. With victory will come a rebirth of a nation based on true democratic principles.


http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htmWhat makes this such a great speech?

The setting is a very dramatic one where a bloody battle had been fought and many men lost their lives.The speech is short with a highly


http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htmemotional tone that recalls the values and principles that led to America’s independence. This speech is a rally cry to recommit our nation to those principles in honor of those who died for them.

Mark Twain

http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6hfi7-ymA

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St. Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived.


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Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_SawyerThe character's name was derived from a real-life Tom Sawyer Spivey with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was a reporter at the San Francisco Call. The character is an amalgamation of three boys Twain knew while growing up.



Plot The Adventures of Tom Sawyer




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Tom Sawyer DiscussionDescribe Tom

Tom Sawyer is a lovable yet mischievous boy who understands human nature very well and who enjoys asserting his independence while exploring the adventures of the outside world.

Tom Sawyer DiscussionDescribe Aunt Polly

Aunt Polly is raising her sister’s boy, Tom and even though she wants to discipline him, she has a soft spot in her heart for Tom. She fears this is causing her to be too easy on Tom and worries about Tom’s upbringing.

Tom Sawyer DiscussionWhat are some obvious qualities of Twain’s writing style?

Twain equally mixes prose narration with dialogue. He uses prose narration to advance from scene to scene and then dialogue to present the scene.

Tom Sawyer DiscussionTwain’s use of dialogue is very effective because he uses the dialect of time and place. The reader is placed into the scene.

"Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?"

Tom Sawyer DiscussionTwain also uses humor with satire not only to entertain but to get his Point across to the reader.

"You're a coward and a pup. I'll tell my big brother on you, and he can thrash you with his little finger, and I'll make him do it, too."

"What do I care for your big brother? I've got a brother that's bigger than he is—and what's more, he can throw him over that fence, too." [Both brothers were imaginary.]

"That's a lie."

"YOUR saying so don't make it so."

Discussion

In a Socratic Seminar explore this topic:Mark Twain is an iconic literary figure in the United States. Who from your culture and tradition would be a literary giant? Why

Additional Assignment #1

Watch this short video on Abraham Lincoln, and then read his 2nd Inaugural Address.http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpec3pW76ag&feature=related

Abraham Lincoln 2nd Inaugural Address

Additional Assignment #2

Read this famous short Story by Mark Twain.

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English 11 Literature #16

Mr. Rinka

Abraham LincolnMark Twain

English 11 Literature #16 Mr. Rinka Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain.

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