Analyze the Civil War 1861-1865 from MULTIPLE perspectives — Union + Confederate + enslaved-people-becoming-free + USCT 180,000 + women + Indigenous-nations-on-both-sides + immigrant soldiers — covering major battles + Emancipation Proclamation + Gettysburg + Sherman's March + Appomattox + Lincoln assassination + Juneteenth
Exercise
Difficulty 4
~10 min
hist.g8.f.ex_23
Essay
Prompt
Quote 1 sentence from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Nov 19 1863 + identify 1 rhetorical move (parallelism / antithesis / climactic tricolon).
How it's presented
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Answer criteria
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rubric
criteria
- Direct quote from Gettysburg Address
- Names rhetorical device
- Applies device-name correctly to quoted passage
- Optional: cites Wills 1992 Lincoln at Gettysburg
Hints
- 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' is a climactic tricolon.
- 'Four score and seven years ago' connects to Declaration 1776.
Misconceptions to watch
- Vague paraphrase instead of direct quote
- Misnaming rhetorical device
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