Tuesday, May 12, 2015

1. Show and Tell speech.
2. You will bring something (appropriate) to class tomorrow and tell the other students about it.
3. For simplicity and practicality, don't bring something that is alive, such as an animal or insect. 
4. On an index card which the teacher will give you, you must make a list or outline of what you plan to say.
5. The card will be turned in for a daily grade.
6. The speech must be between one minute and two minutes long.
7. You will present your speech in class tomorrow.
8. It will be a daily grade.
9. This is not a joint project with anyone else, so stay in your seat and work on your speech.
10. If you finish and have absolutely nothing to do except be noisy, the teacher will be instructed to have you write the following (legibly) on paper and turn it in:

The Gettysburg Address

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.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 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. 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 – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.