Emancipation Proclamation By: Abraham Lincoln

Students are to reasearch the Emancipation Proclamation, The moral compass for the end of the civil war. It showed other countries that the north wanted to end slavery.

On this journey you will learn the impact of this Speech and the man delivering it.

-Students will be assigned the task on stating what they think the legacy of this speech is. A two page essay will be due one week after this asssignment. 

- During this project I want you to get a feel for the era, and get some resources to help you write your paper.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamat…;

- use this video to anwser the following questions

1. How do you stop the instutution of slavery?

2. Where was the battle of shilloh, how many men were killed wounded or injured?

3. When did Abe Lincoln give the Emancipation Proclomation?

4. What document do they compare it to?

-Abe Lincoln the man and his legacy!

-Watch this video and no need to anwser questions for this video.

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/abraham-lincoln/videos/linc…

-The Emancipation's Delviery and meaning and aftermath, pull some facts and the vibe of the speech and how people responded.

- I would like you to take notes on this video and put in your essay folder, this willbe good for your research.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamat…

-Alright time for the paper!

-I am giving you a week to finish this 2 page paper

-Make sure to use good grammar, the SAT is approching and I want this to be a lesson also on how to write.

-I will edit all of your papers and then we will go over the major problems in most papers. Then I will be staying after school every day for an hour to go over the papers that people want more explaining.