FREE Historical Speech Analysis & Copywork: Thanksgiving

We’ve all experienced the enduring power of words, something that someone says that stays with us for a lifetime. History is also full of such speeches that have endured. Help your students analyze President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation and understand why it has endured with this FREE Historical Speech Analysis & Copywork: Thanksgiving unit. 

Analyzing literature or historical speeches can seem intimidating, but this FREE Historical Speech Analysis & Copywork: Thanksgiving unit breaks down the steps to analyzing an historical speech and guides students to look at: 

• details surrounding the setting of the speech

• what the goal of the speech was

• how the speech was structured

• how the words used appealed to the audience in different ways

• and much more 

This unit is designed to supplement a student’s language arts study. It provides the questions to ask, notebooking lines to record answers, and the full text of the speech It also includes print copywork for the students to trace and/or copy. 

This unit’s featured speech is President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving issued October 3, 1863. 

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Bonnie Rose Hudson

Bonnie Rose Hudson’s heart’s desire is for every child to feel the love of God and know how special they are to Him. She would love for you to stop by her website WriteBonnieRose.com for homeschool and history curriculum, resources to help teach your children about missions and the persecuted Church, free history and writing printables, and to check out her newest release from JourneyForth, The Hidden Village, an early reader set in India.