"The Gettysburg Address"

For scores and years into the future, American schoolchildren will memorize the words first spoken by Abraham Lincoln as he dedicated a battlefield to Union soldiers who died to save the country.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Crucible, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The New England Primer, The Trial of Martha Carrier, The Lessons of Salem, The Very Proper Gander, Declaration of Conscience, Why I Wrote The Crucible, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Speech to the Virginia Convention, The Gettysburg Address, FDR's First Inaugural Address , JFK's Inaugural Address
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  1. conceive
    have the idea for
    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.
  2. endure
    persist for a specified period of time
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
  3. dedicate
    set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church
    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.
  4. hallow
    render holy by means of religious rites
    But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground.
  5. consecrate
    render holy by means of religious rites
    The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
  6. advance
    contribute to the progress or growth of
    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.
  7. devotion
    commitment to some purpose
    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
  8. resolve
    reach a decision
    that we here highly resolve
  9. vain
    unproductive of success
    that these dead shall not have died in vain
  10. perish
    pass from physical life
    that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
Created on Wed Nov 12 08:39:56 EST 2014 (updated Wed Nov 12 10:27:33 EST 2014)

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