"Turning Notes into Text" (40 points possible) (30 minutes)

     Using the bullet notes provided below, please do the following:

1. Write two or more paragraphs using these notes and your own knowledge.
2. Cite any information which you would not have known without using these notes.

1. 1 point for each complete sentence on this topic.
2. 2 points for each sentence which incorporates information from these research notes.
3. 1 point for each correct citation.

• born 2-12-1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky (1, 1)
• named after paternal grandfather, killed by Native American in 1786 (1,1)
• Father Thomas Lincoln, mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1,1)
• Thomas Lincoln, carpenter and farmer (2)
• As adult, Abe Lincoln did not like his father (2)

  -did not attend his father's funeral in 1851 (2)
• Mother, Nancy Lincoln, skilled seamstress, caring mother (2)
• both parents could not read or write (1, 1)
• Elder sister, Sarah, born 1807 (1, 1)
• Younger brother, Thomas, born and died in 1811 (2)
• Lincoln family moved to Indiana in 1816 (1, 1)
• when Abe 9, Mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died October 5, 1818 (1, 1)
• Father married widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, on Dec. 2, 1819 (2)
• Sarah Lincoln had 3 children of her own, Elizabeth, Matilda, & John (2)
• Sarah treated Abe kindly, and encouraged his studying (2)
• Abe Lincoln very fond of his step-mother, called her "my angel mother" (1, 1)
• Abe Lincoln worked, swinging an axe, on family farm (1, 1)
• Abe Lincoln had less than 1 year formal education in lifetime (1, 1)
• Lincoln family moved to Illinois in 1830 (1, 1)
• First full-time job, 1831, as clerk in a general store, at age 22 (1, 1)
• In 1832, at age 23, Abe Lincoln runs for Illinois House of Representatives ( 1, 1)
• Lincoln loses election; but gets 277 of 300 votes cast in his home precinct (1, 1)

     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>.