Gettysburg Reflections

This worksheet presents an excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1863) and asks students to interpret its main message and historical significance. Learners analyze Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, and the endurance of democracy during the Civil War. Through short-response questions, students identify key themes, evaluate the speech’s impact, and select the most powerful phrase with reasoning. This exercise encourages deep reading of primary sources and connects literature to historical context. It develops analytical writing skills while fostering civic and historical literacy.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Analyzing Primary Source Documents

Social Studies – Understanding the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

English Language Arts – Determining Central Ideas in Historical Texts

English Language Arts – Citing Textual Evidence in Expository Responses

This worksheet is part of our Grade 9 Reading Comprehension collection.