Days 149 & 150 J. Chamberlain & Gettysburg Address

Days 149 & 150 April 4 & 5, 2012

LA Book: 2 page

Math Books: 4 pages

Movie Summary: http://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Chamberlain-20th-Maine/dp/B002L9YBO4

Joshua Chamberlain and the 20^th Maine

This is a documentary movie shot in Maine and New England about the 20^th Maine regiment and Joshua Chamberlain. It shows how Colonel Ames drilled these men so many times so that they were ready for anything. Here are some of my observations on this movie:

1. Antietam, Sharpsburg, the bloodiest single battle in American history

2. Joshua Chamberlain used dead bodies to protect him in Fredricksburg

3. The Mainers buried the dead and left markers

4. The 20^th Maine was quarantined with Small pox because of bad vaccinations

5. After the battle of Chancellorsville, Joshua Chamberlain was assigned commander of the 20^th Maine regiment

6. 53,000 men died in Gettysburg in the three day battle and 50,000 American men died during the Vietnam war, the whole Vietnam War.

Facts & Details from Video Clips: http://video.pbs.org/video/1832543419/ *clips from Ken Burns PBS Civil War series

1. Edward Evert of Massachusetts had a speech that lasted for two hours!

2. The Gettysburg address was a beautiful speech by Lincoln but only had 269 words!

3. The Gettysburg address had 269 words!

And  http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=DICi3uV9Tbo&v=pemkR3k3kyM&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_877061 *clips from America: The Story of Us

1. The new railroad helped the North win because Lincoln “put them on the train” and snuck them down to the south so they could start their siege.

2. Another thing that played a big part in the Civil war was the postal system because they could now send easy quick letters to their family of the spies to the army

3. The Morse code was a new part of this and it played a huge part in the Civil War as well

Read and Answer Questions below & Follow Link:

FTL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ

Gettysburg Address: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal

Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battlefield of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate  we cannot consecrate we can not hallow  this ground The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us  that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom  and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth

Questions:

1.       What is a score? A: 20 years

2.       What does he mean when he says “new nation, conceived in Liberty”? A: to formed with Liberty Summarize what Lincoln says in the second paragraph beginning “Now we are engaged…” and ending with “proper that we should do this”: He means Now we are in it and there’s no turning back yet, and he believes that it is right to bury all of the dead soldiers because they gave their lives to fight for their country.

3.       Define the word “consecrate”: to make  declared or sacred

4.       What does he mean when he says that they must be dedicated to the “unfinished work”? A: they must keep going because the war is not yet done.

5.       How do you feel when you read and hear the last sentence of this great speech? A: I feel that he is saying that all of us “people” will stay here and be free

Extra Credit! Bonus! Fun!

*Memorize this great American speech. It’s great practice for acting and learning lines and it would also be a good audition piece! So try to memorize and then recite The Gettysburg Address.