Learning Task 4: Read Bliss' version of Abraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg

Address below. Then answer the questions that follow. Write your answers in your notebook.

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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate we can not 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 taak 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.

Arahan Linn/Newber 19, 1863

1. Is the information primary, secondary or tertiary? Explain.

2. How many years do four score and seven years mean?

3. What greatest concern or emergency was mentioned by Lincoln in his speech?

4. Explain Lincoln's message when he said that govemment is of the people, by the people and for the people?

5. What do you think was the occasion being celebrated when Lincoln delivered this speech? Explain your answer.