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Themes | Literature | Gettysburg Practice | Writing | Quizzes/ Exams | Scoring Guide
www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/ images/sharedhist2b.gif 1. Haunting presence of African heritage 2.
Pain of lost ancestry 3.
Dignity of the human spirit 4.
Search for male identity 5.
Injustice / racism 6.
Horrors of slavery 7.
Struggle of the black woman 8.
Presence of white suppression |
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Literature:
A Gathering of Old Men
Literature from African pre slave period to African American present Slave narratives, poetry, biographical essays, short stories, folk tales, spirituals & work songs, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights speeches. Rap The Gettysburg Address & Oh, Captain, My Captain |
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The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 ______________________years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
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Now we are engaged in a __________________________, testing whether
that nation, or any nation_____________________________________________,
can long endure. We are met
on a great battlefield of that war. We
have come to __________ a portion of that field, as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives
that_______________________________________________________.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger
sense,____________________________________________ _______________
hallow -- this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,
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The world will ______________________________ _______________________________
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us 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_____________________________________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 resolved
that these dead__________________________died in vain -- that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that
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Writing Assignment: Poetry
Has America lived up to Dr. King's dream? 10-er Final essay exam on novel |
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Quizzes / exams: Quiz on African
American literature history
Final exam is an essay exam Scoring Guide for final essay exam:
Adapted from P. Church |
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