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Please read the following: " The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation ." Analyze the satire present.  Don't forget to include its function.  Be sure to make specific reference, either explicitly or implicitly, to the presentation, also noting its effectiveness.  If you choose to do this, I expect your best effort, not something thrown together at the last minute.  To begin you might want to interact with your peers making comments about what you're reading and your take on it.   And to conclude, here's a link to a brief rhetorical analysis of Lincoln's speech.

Because this statement found at the end of the article, "Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed," I cannot make copies for you.  However, I can provide you with a link so that you can read the article then study the sample Commonplace Book entry, so that you can have an idea of how yours should look next week.  Click here for the article.  Should you have any questions, please ask. 

After listening to the responses regarding Lincoln's First Inaugural Address today, I thought that providing this link would help equip you better to respond to this speech.  This link provides his inaugural address with internal links that show you his support for particular points made in his speech.  I may add more here as I see necessary.   Since not all the links work above (they've disappeared), here are some others that might be helpful: Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural A Federal Republic: Lincoln's First Inaugural   Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address Sentence Analysis  Dr. David Zarefsky: An Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech