Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Analyzing Arguments

Open Ended

What divides us as human beings?

Open Ended

When divisions happen, what are some steps or actions you could take to bring people back together?

Analyzing Argumentative Texts

• As a speech, this text includes a clear claim or thesis

• supports ideas with specific evidence

• makes a call to action to the audience in the conclusion

Some Helpful Terms

• Claim or Thesis - An expression of the writer’s position on an issue

• Evidence - Specific information, such as facts, quotations, and examples, that supports the thesis

• Appeal - A persuasive method intended to influence the beliefs of the audience

• Call to Action - An attempt to convince the audience to do something based on the argument

The Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln delivered the speech when he was sworn in for a second term as president during the Civil War. He made an argument to his fellow countrymen for the best way for the country to move forward.

Multiple Choice

An attempt to convince the audience to do something based on the argument

• evidence

• claim or thesis

• call to action

• appeal

Multiple Choice

An expression of the writer’s position on an issue

• claim or thesis

• appeal

• evidence

• call to action

Multiple Choice

A persuasive method intended to influence the beliefs of the audience

• claim or thesis

• appeal

• evidence

• call to action

Multiple Choice

Specific information, such as facts, quotations, and examples, that supports the thesis

• claim or thesis

• evidence

• appeal

• call to action

Analyzing Author's Purpose

• Author's purpose - the reason an author writes a text (or gives a speech)

• The purpose of an argumentative text is to persuade the audience to believe in or do something

Rhetorical Devices

• Rhetorical Devices - techniques that influence the way a text is understood by the audience. Lincoln uses several

• Diction - words that the author chooses to include

• Parallelism: the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related

• Allusion: quotations or references to a familiar person, place, event, or literary work

Multiple Choice

Which part of the sentence is an allusion: If they keep pushing me, I'm going to turn into the Hulk.

• If they keep

• keep pushing me

• I'm going to turn

• turn into the Hulk

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that has parallel structure.

• The children laughed, jumped, and danced
• The children were laughing, jumped, and some were dancing.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that has parallel structure

• He came, he saw, and he received.
• He came, he wanted to see, but he didn't. 
• He came; he started to ask; he didn't want to. 
• He saw, didn't come or receive. 

Critical Vocabulary for Reading

• engross

• venture

• deprecate

• wring

Multiple Choice

If I were to _______ a guess, I would say that we will have a quiz today.

• engross

• venture

• deprecate

• wring

Multiple Choice

In that movie, the lawyer had to _______ a confession out of the criminal.

• engross

• venture

• deprecate

• wring

Multiple Choice

The filmmaker used special effects to help _____ the audience in the film

• engross

• venture

• deprecate

• wring

Multiple Choice

I don't usually like to _____ anyone's work, but my brother did a poor job of mowing the lawn.

• engross

• venture

• deprecate

• wring

Your assignment for today:

• Read and annotate Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address in HMH Ed.

• Complete the "Delineate and Analyze Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address" assignment in Canvas