Kinda’ like learning about Winston Churchill’s gratitude speech without learning about the blitz over London. Or Roosevelt’s day of infamy speech wherein we declare war on Japan without learning about Pearl Harbor.
Common Core is an abomination. Homeschool your kids if you can.
History doesn't really work like that, because most of the noteworthy historical elements were conflicts, or the results of conflicts.
When you see college graduates on Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking” displaying tremendous ignorance on the easiest historic facts, you can thank the Department of Education.
Going through the links, one finally finds out that the passage is being read in English class. In that context, it makes some sense to stay on the subject and not cover history questions.
Common core are capitolists (soros and gates) who are now communists progagandizing your children!
Kind of remonds me of Baltimore Public Schools. I heard they begin teaching History at the Civil Rights movement.
They don’t want the kids to focus on how many white people were killed to free the slaves.
What’s the new official purpose of the Gettysburg Address? Global Warming?
This may be the lesson plan here. I couldn’t get the actual PDF of the Gettysburg Address to display (I suspect it is a variant without the mention of God/Creator).
It does discuss divorcing the context of the speech from the lesson plan.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/american-civil-war/resources/gettysburg-address
“Introduction - Tell the students that they will be learning what Abraham Lincoln was saying in the Gettysburg Address by reading and understanding Lincoln’s own words. Resist the temptation to put the speech into too much context. Remember, we are trying to let the students discover what Lincoln had to say and then develop ideas based solely on his words.”