Test 25: Seventh and Eighth Grade: Friday, 5-21-04
Record: a) your extra credit for the week.
Keep it all. b) assignments/homework for week.
"Turning Notes into Text" (40 points possible) (30
minutes)
Using the bullet notes
provided below, please do the following:
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Write two or more paragraphs using these notes and
your own knowledge.
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Cite any information which you would not have known
without using these notes.
How this test will be graded:
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1 point for each complete sentence
on this topic.
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2 points for each sentence which incorporates
information from these research notes.
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1 point for each correct citation.
Bullet notes on the early life of Abraham Lincoln
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born 2-12-1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky (1, 1)
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named after paternal grandfather, killed by Native American
in 1786 (1,1)
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Father Thomas Lincoln, mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1,1)
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Thomas Lincoln, carpenter and farmer (2)
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As adult, Abe Lincoln did not like his father (2)
-did not attend his father's funeral in 1851
(2)
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Mother, Nancy Lincoln, skilled seamstress, caring mother
(2)
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both parents could not read or write (1, 1)
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Elder sister, Sarah, born 1807 (1, 1)
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Younger brother, Thomas, born and died in 1811 (2)
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Lincoln family moved to Indiana in 1816 (1, 1)
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when Abe 9, Mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died October
5, 1818 (1, 1)
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Father married widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, on Dec. 2,
1819 (2)
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Sarah Lincoln had 3 children of her own, Elizabeth, Matilda,
& John (2)
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Sarah treated Abe kindly, and encouraged his studying
(2)
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Abe Lincoln very fond of his step-mother, called her "my
angel mother" (1, 1)
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Abe Lincoln worked, swinging an axe, on family farm (1,
1)
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Abe Lincoln had less than 1 year formal education in lifetime
(1, 1)
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Lincoln family moved to Illinois in 1830 (1, 1)
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First full-time job, 1831, as clerk in a general store,
at age 22 (1, 1)
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In 1832, at age 23, Abe Lincoln runs for Illinois House
of Representatives ( 1, 1)
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Lincoln loses election; but gets 277 of 300 votes cast
in his home precinct (1, 1)
Works Cited:
1. "Lincoln Abraham," Microsoft Encarta
Online Encyclopedia. 2004. <http://encarta.msn.com>.
2. Abraham Lincoln Research Site.
"Abraham Lincoln's Parents." 19 Oct. 1999. 20 May 2004.
<http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln81.html>.