Gettysburg Address Anniversary

This year is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg address--specifically yesterday (the 19th).  I have had fun this week showing the students how short this speech is and how easy it is to understand. I had a couple of resources to help.

A great couple of the speech from this website: http://gettyready.org/gettysburg.shtml

Great background for the students to read, and some interesting facts about the speech in: http://www.ket.org/lincoln/pdf/gettysburg%20address.pdf

This would have been a great lesson--but all I did was steal the questions on the speech itself: http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/lincoln01-764.pdf

Thank you Wikipedia!