Wonders Gr 4 - Unit 3 Week 4 - Abe's Honest Words

On page 242, it says, "Abraham Lincoln is my name, and with my pen I wrote the same, I wrote in both haste and speed and left it here for fools to read." What does the word is a synonym for haste in this sentence?

• pen

• wrote

• speed

• fools

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

The phrase "A house divided against itself cannot stand" does not mean:

• if you cut the actual house in half, it will break apart.

• If people in a home are not in agreement, they cannot stand firm as a family.

• If people in an organization are split in their points of view and can't come to an agreement, their organization will probably fail in their endeavors.

• If people on a team are divided against itself, they cannot work together so they will lose.

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

Twelve Negroes, chained six and six together were strung together like so many fish upon a trotline, being separated forever from their childhood, their friends, their fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters, from their wives and children, into perpetual slavery made Abe Lincoln feel:

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

On page 250 it says, "In the next two years, tension over slavery grew between the South and North." What does tension mean?

• Tension means mental stress related to different views of slavery.

• There was a rope that went from the South to the North and it was pulled very tight.

• It was like elevension but one before it.

• People did not like to fight.

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

In his first inaugural address, Lincoln gave a (a)   in which he reminded all Americans that they were one people.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

On page 255, it says that Abraham Lincoln issued a (a)   which he is famous for because those words freed slaves.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Most white Northerners opposed Lincoln's proclamation. Does this mean they were for or against what he wrote?

• for

• against

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

"It is for us the living, rather 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 earth." What does perish mean?

• wither

• die

• live forever

• fly away

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.3.4