🇺🇸 1863 · History

Gettysburg Address Read Aloud and Explained

Lincoln's short speech, with an explanation of "four score and seven years ago" and why it mattered.

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Reader

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.

Teacher

Let's break that down. A score is twenty, so four score and seven is eighty-seven. Lincoln gave this speech in eighteen sixty-three. Eighty-seven years earlier was seventeen seventy-six, the year of the Declaration of Independence.

Teacher

So Lincoln is saying: our country started with the idea that all people are equal. He said this in the middle of the Civil War, to remind people what they were fighting for.

Teacher

Questions. One: how many years is four score and seven? Two: what happened in seventeen seventy-six? Three: why do you think Lincoln mentioned equality during the war?

Reader: 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.

Teacher: Let's break that down. A score is twenty, so four score and seven is eighty-seven. Lincoln gave this speech in eighteen sixty-three. Eighty-seven years earlier was seventeen seventy-six, the year of the Declaration of Independence.

Teacher: So Lincoln is saying: our country started with the idea that all people are equal. He said this in the middle of the Civil War, to remind people what they were fighting for.

Teacher: Questions. One: how many years is four score and seven? Two: what happened in seventeen seventy-six? Three: why do you think Lincoln mentioned equality during the war?

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What Makes This Work

✓Explains the tricky phrase "four score"
✓Connects the speech to the Declaration
✓Places it in the Civil War
✓Questions that build from fact to opinion

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