The Fourteenth Amendment — The Answer After the War · Sitting 3
Proposition, Holding, Instrument
Keep Wills as thesis, Taney as holding, Bliss as speech, Section 1 as rule. Do not hagiograph Lincoln. Do not skip the speech.
- 32 min
- Companion
- Adult
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Everett's letter. Five copies. Train myth false. Chain: Dred Scott, Gettysburg, Section 1, Section 2 vs Fed 54.
Hard edges
- Gettysburg stays inside this pack.
- Do not ask whether Lincoln meant the 14th.
If they say
- “Gettysburg is the 14th.”
- Speech over graves vs five-section instrument. Read both.
Objective
The parent can teach Gettysburg inside the 14th pack without making it the next civic figure or a substitute charter.
How to sit them
Citizenship holding first, so the speech is not asked to do Taney's work. Bliss aloud. Section 1 four clauses. Section 2 vs 54 already taught. Ugly: Taney; 14th exclusions; unkeeping (Plessy). The parent refuses both the mascot speech and the cynicism that the speech was only words.
Big idea
A speech can dedicate a nation to a proposition. Only an amendment can change the operating rules.
Try this~30 min total
Parent sequence
30 min- Write the four-beat chain on an index card you will actually use.
- Add: Wills is a thesis. Bliss is the text. Section 1 is the instrument.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
After the reading.
- Test paraphrase of Bliss against Bliss; paraphrase of Section 1 against Archives.
- No swap.
- No train myth.
- No meant-the-14th.
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Dinner table
What do we lose when we let Gettysburg stand in for the 14th at the dinner table?
Sits beside
- Thinking. Source before summary. Bliss. Archives.
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Integrity. Do not ask the model whether Lincoln meant the 14th.