1. President for a day Can you handle it???

2. Your Task… You are being asked to dedicate a cemetery for fallen soldiers. The cemetery is on the site where a great battle took place. You are to write a speech that can be delivered in under 90 seconds. You want to use this opportunity to strengthen the determination of your countrymen and renew their will to fight.

3. Explain that you are here to dedicate a cemetery for dead American soldiers and that this is going to be sacred ground. Explain that the war is a test of our national strength and that the world is watching Make a national promise that you, as President, will continue the fight. Call your countrymen to action and demand that they, too continue the fight. Appeal to their emotions by reminding them of all those who have sacrificed their lives so far. Appeal to their sense of duty and honor by reminding them that the job of finishing this war is in their hands. Appeal to their patriotism by connecting this struggle to the American Revolution. Appeal to their religious belief by reminding them that freedom comes from a “higher power” and that this nation was “created” for the purpose of freedom.

4. Lincoln at Gettysburg Pennsylvania purchased 17 acres for cemetery Lincoln asked to dedicate Everett spoke for over two hours Lincoln spoke for barely 2 minutes

5. Gettysburg Introduction to the Gettysburg Address “Four score and seven years ago, our Fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”

6. Hearing the address Although we frequently read the address today, it was actually mean to be listened to… THE ADDRESS

7. 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the 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 dedicated to the great task remaining 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 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 the earth.

8. Conceive – to form a notion or idea Proposition – a suggestion that something be done or thought about Engaged – to be occupied with a task Endure – to continue to exist or last Consecrate – to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate Hallow – to honor as holy or sacred Detract – to draw away or divert attention Devotion – dedication, or commitment to a cause Vain – without real significance or value Perish – to pass away or disappear

9. Explain that you are here to dedicate a cemetery for dead Union soldiers and that this is going to be sacred ground. Explain that the Civil War is a test of our national strength and that the world is watching Make a national promise that you, as President, will continue the fight. Call your countrymen to action and demand that they, too continue the fight. Appeal to their emotions by reminding them of all those who have sacrificed their lives so far. Appeal to their sense of duty and honor by reminding them that the job of finishing this war is in their hands. Appeal to their patriotism by connecting this struggle to the American Revolution. Appeal to their religious belief by reminding them that freedom comes from a “higher power” and that this nation was “created” for the purpose of freedom.