Step 1: study this excerpt from the speech given by lincoln.

a house divided against itself cannot stand. i believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved—i do not expect the house to fall—but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other.

—abraham lincoln, springfield, illinois, june 16, 1858

step 2: respond to questions.

analyze the excerpt from lincoln’s speech by answering the following questions in one paragraph:

what is lincoln’s point of view regarding the future of the country?
which statement from the excerpt shows his point of view?
explain how the selected quote shows lincoln’s point of view.
what is an historical idea or event that supports lincoln’s point of view?

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

Which trait is common to the narrators in these excerpts? a the narrators were born in poverty the narrators were separated from their birth parents c. the narrators grew up to be criminals d the narrators worked hard in lide to improva their ocial status the narrators blamed themselves for their mistortunps

Match each excerpt to the epic characteristics it contains