March 27, 2012 Day 143
Math: 2 pages
LA book: 1 page
3 x 6 John Brown read
from Two Miserable Presidents: Everything
Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About the Civil War by Steve Sheinkin
pages 23-top 0f 27 and 32-top of 35
Link to book
Vocabulary
1. Free-Soiler: A member of the free soil party or a
supporter of its principles, region, especially a U.S. territory,
prohibiting slavery prior to the Civil War.
2. Slave Rebellion: An armed uprising by slaves
3. Hostage: A person given to or held by a person to use as
security
Sentences
1. The free-Soil army fought back and all out war erupted in
Kansas or as the news called it, “Bleeding Kansas”; John Brown was a free-soil
man in this army.
2. John Brown somehow made it out of Kansas alive and went
to New England where he began raising money for his new plan, a slave
rebellion.
3. Brown’s small force seized the federal armory (a building
full of guns and ammunition) they then snatched a few people to hold hostage.
People
1. John Brown: A Free-Soil man and abolitionist who
“started” the Civil War and led a slave rebellion
2. James Doyle: A pro-slavery settler who was held hostage
by John Brown starting the Kansas battle
3. Dred Scott: A slave man who started an argument against
the Supreme Court that stated that he had lived in a free state in a free
country and therefore he should be free
Facts & Details
1. One of the men that Brown held hostage was George
Washington’s great grandnephew
2. A town in the South called Harpers Ferry started shooting
against John Brown’s slave army, the “first” man to die in the Civil War,
Dangerfield Newby
3. Dangerfield Newby’s wife Harriet Newby wrote this before
her husband died, “Dear Husband, There
has been one bright hope to cheer me up in my troubles, that is to be with you,
for I thought I should never see you, this Earth would have no charms for me. Do
all you can for me, which I have no doubt you will. I want to see you so much”
Questions
1. Describe what happened in Lawrence, Kansas in 1856: there
had been attacks on the town, and John brown decided that it was his turn to
get revenge on the pro-slavery houses
2. What do you think John Brown means when he said “Caution,
caution, sir. I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing
but the word of cowardice”: I think it means that he thinks the other person is
afraid
3. Who was Dangerfield Newby and why was his death ironic?
A: Because he was the first person that died in the Civil War.
Images
Young Abe Lincoln 3 x
6
Abe Lincoln: The boy
who loved books by Kay Winters and Nancy Carpenter
Vocabulary
1. Cumberland Trail: A popular Wagon Trail outside of
Abraham Lincoln’s home in Kentucky
2. “Honest Abe”: A nickname for Abraham Lincoln because he
was very honest and never lied
3. “poled a flatboat”: like rowing a raft, except a flatboat
is a flat bottom log made boat that goes on rivers, the term polled a flatboat
means that you have took a wooden pole and used it to row you down the river
Sentences
1. Abe Lincoln’s house in Kentucky was close to the
Cumberland Trail, he saw peddlers, pioneers, politicians, traders, and slaves
go by on the trail and Abe would learn a lot from them.
2. In New Salem, Illinois is where Abe got the nickname,
“Honest Abe” he worked at the general store and accidently over charged someone
six cents and chased him seven miles to give it back!
3. When Abraham Lincoln was nineteen he polled a flatboat
down the river to settle in New Salem Illinois and start his own life.
Facts & Details
1. Abe Lincoln shot a turkey, but only once, he then swore
that he would never take the life of a never living thing ever again.
2. When Abe was nine, his mother died of milk sickness and
his father married another widow with three other children.
3. Abe Lincoln taught himself to be a lawyer, this got his
name out in politics and when he decided to run for congress, then senate, he
landed himself a job as the president of the United States, but at a difficult
time, the beginning of the Civil War.
Questions
1. Where and when was Lincoln born? A: In the frontier,
Kentucky, 1809in a one bedroom log cabin
2. What happened at Little Pigeon Creek? A: Abe’s family had
to stay in a little shelter made of branches and twigs in the wilderness where
they had many interferences with wild animals such as bears and wolves
3. What is milk sickness and who died of it? A: A sickness
that you can get from drinking too much or rotten/bad milk, Abe Lincoln’s
mother when Abe was nine
Summary *summarize story in 3-4 sentence paragraph
This is a story about Abraham Lincoln’s childhood in the
wilderness. Abraham Lincoln loves to read books, but since he moved a lot he
didn’t go to school for very long. Basically this story shows you had Lincoln
went from a long cabin in the west house to the white house!
Images
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