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Grade 8 Civil War — Battles & Emancipation — Reading Comprehension — Gettysburg Address Free printable reading comprehension passage about gettysburg address. Students read the passage and answer questions to build understanding. For 8th Grade (ages 13–14).
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Gettysburg Address LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. Lincoln spoke for about two minutes at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg in November 1863, following a two-hour oration by Edward Everett. In 272 words he began with the Declaration of Independence — four score and seven years ago — rather than the Constitution, framing the country as founded on the proposition that all men are created equal. He argued that the war was a test of whether such a nation could endure, and that the dead had already consecrated the ground in a way speech could not. He asked the living to finish the work so that government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth. The speech redefined the war's purpose as being about equality, not only about preserving the Union. Questions: 1 Which founding document did Lincoln begin from, and why does that ma… 2 What did he ask of the living? 3 How did the speech change the war's stated purpose? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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Gettysburg Address LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. Lincoln spoke for about two minutes at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg in November 1863, following a two-hour oration by Edward Everett. In 272 words he began with the Declaration of Independence — four score and seven years ago — rather than the Constitution, framing the country as founded on the proposition that all men are created equal. He argued that the war was a test of whether such a nation could endure, and that the dead had already consecrated the ground in a way speech could not. He asked the living to finish the work so that government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth. The speech redefined the war's purpose as being about equality, not only about preserving the Union. Questions: 1 Which founding document did Lincoln begin from, and why does that ma… 2 What did he ask of the living? 3 How did the speech change the war's stated purpose? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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