Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Group work - Lincoln's thoughts in August, 1862

We began class today by assigning everyone to read one of three documents in the packet:

  • Horace Greeley's letter to Abraham Lincoln, A Prayer for Twenty Millions
  • Lincoln's Address on Colonization
  • Frederick Douglass' response to Lincoln, The President and his Speeches.
We then broke up into groups to create a Lucidchart that traced the factors that influenced Lincoln's beliefs in 1862 (See the linked directions).

Here is a link to the directions for today's group work.

When we finished and shared our Lucidcharts, we then returned  to the classroom to watch The Higher Object, a scene from Ken Burns' documentary.  When finished, we read The Emancipation Proclamation and then answered the questions from the packet about it.