 first take what are some of the things you notice both about the content what he's saying and also about the way he goes about saying it just one a quick a quick phrase or what what words or phrases stick out to you yes yeah he calls in the Bible a lot absolutely and he also it's clear he assumes people know that those quotes are from the Bible right because he doesn't say these are valuable quotes he just does it what else yeah yeah he definitely starts off by saying this is a new day this is a different time absolutely what else what other things do you notice in here so yeah so at the very end of the speech he's definitely moving forward and he's setting a tone for what his expectations are absolutely what else he reaffirms the notion that we've seen since he missed the case of proclamation that originally the war was about preserving the very clear that it was about slavery absolutely yeah he really he states it even goes further than that we'll talk a little more about that what else what else do you notice anything about the structure yes I'm just struck by the rather severe comment that God wills the retrovision yeah there's nothing for casual about this middle paragraph anything else okay let's try to take a second pass at this and as we're doing it I want you to think about those things about the references to biblical references and let's also pay attention to these different paragraphs he starts by saying it's a new day then he goes into talking about what it was like in the country at the beginning of the Civil War and the next paragraph and then he goes into this really intense paragraph about slavery and about why this war what he's he's got an idea of why this war happened and then moving us towards towards post war times and just quickly I want to remind you do you all know what the day was that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated do you remember April April April yeah he was kept he was he was assassinated on the 14th he died on the 15th and what is this date right here March 4th March 4th so it's how much earlier yeah just like a month and a half it's not much he hardly had a second term fellow countryman at the second appearance to take the oath of the presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first statement somewhat detailed of a course to be pursued see fitting and proper now the expiration of four years during which public declarations have been constantly called for every point in the phrase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and grosses the energies of the nation little that is new to be progress of our arms upon which all else chiefly depends is as well known to the public as to myself and it is I trust reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all with high hope for the future no prediction in regard to it okay let's stop for a second and talk about some of the things he was doing in this first crack of 20 I've been doing this for three years and I just noticed a new thing so what what are some of he's very skilled in the way he's structured this what are some of the things that he's doing in this first paragraph how is he what it what is he trying to do as he introduces the speech you see well with high hope for the future no prediction in regard to his venture but he has a plan not quite sure how to go yeah how it's going to be accepted yeah and you know that's the part that I just noticed something for the first time he doesn't ever say in this speech and the union is going to win which was clear by them it was clear by March 4th that the union was going to win why wouldn't he say that what why might he choose not to say that in this speech given what else he does he doesn't want to stick it to the south he's specifically saying no prediction is ventured I'm not going to go there as it's an interesting way for me to start that really thinking about healing exactly exactly yeah yeah I'm we're not I'm not going to start this speech by saying we're go you know we're winning we're doing it well even the sense before reasonably satisfactory doesn't go and jump and say we won pretty much it's very yeah I just heard yes yeah and very measured he's very careful on the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war well dreaded it all so it to a verdict while the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted all together to saving the union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war seeking to dissolve the union and divide effects by the negotiation both parties deprecated war but one of us would make war rather than let the nation survive the other would accept war rather than let it perish and war the war came okay let's stop again he's still talking about the previous inauguration at the beginning of the war here and he does a lot of this then and now if you notice at the very in the first target he says then a statement now we don't need it anymore so so what do you notice about this paragraph what are some of the things you notice about about what he's saying at this paragraph I'm gonna say one do are there any hands back there that I'm missing yes okay and what's the this is just a little grammar thing what I sometimes do with kids when I'm looking at this in that very last clause of the paragraph who's taking the action it's not a person on either side it's the war is the subject and he also does a similar thing by saying that insurgent agents he's not saying the whole sound you know leaders of the sound he's like agents like I know it's not everyone and he also says in that second sentence notice the way he says all dreaded it all sought to averted nobody wanted war I think he does now though who we feels started yeah yeah it's clear it's true he said one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and they would accept it no that you're absolutely right you're absolutely right I mean he's not saying nobody's responsible here but he is really being careful about the way he phrases it you ready to keep going okay okay one night of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the union but localized in the southern part of it these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest all knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war to strengthen perpetuating extend this interest with the offer to which the insurgents would render the union either by the war wall the government clean no right to do more than to restrict the territorial coercion of it okay I'm gonna stop us here because this is a really long paragraph what's he doing here he's moving on from talking about the what happened at the beginning and who was responsible he's going a little deeper here what's he doing and and who knew according to him everybody he does it again all dreaded and all sought to averted all knew that this was not letting anyone off the hook here what else what do you recognize any language here from from other studies of slavery or anything yeah yeah exactly a peculiar and powerful interest absolutely and I think it's really interesting though he says to strengthen perpetuate and extend this interest was the object which the surgeons would rent the union even by war I love that in it that that his use of that word to rent the union because I always think of sort of tearing fabric or something he's also in the next part of that talking about you know I didn't say I've been a violent slave right at the beginning I was not going to explain yeah yeah yeah he said hey you yeah other than to restrict the territorial enlargement I what part of what I like about this speech also is that it's sort of like gives you the whole history of that you know early part of the 19th century he addresses so many issues that you can then make connections to okay let's keep going okay stop for just a second what is he saying he's he's addressing something that happened in January 1865 here the cause of the conflict should cease before the conflict with self ceasing the emancipation proclamation yes that was that was in 1863 18th January 1865 the Congress passed the 13th amendment and so it hadn't been ratified yet it wasn't ratified until December 1865 but it had been passed by Congress so he lived to see that happen and that was yet another sign that this was it was you know we were in the end game