Teacher Resource: The Gettysburg Address (PDF).The Gettysburg Address with Text, Context, and Subtext (PDF).It asks students to identify and explain how an author crafts and structures a text in order to frame central ideas. This lesson should be used within a larger Civil War unit. The teacher should provide more modeling for middle-level grades. Over the course of this lesson, students will examine text, context, and subtext, as well as the types of rhetorical devices that Lincoln employed in the Gettysburg Address. Through a step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material. These resources were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. This lesson is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources.
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