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Second Read
• Reread the sermon to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: Choose a sentence that shows that Dr. Gurley sees hope within the sorrow of Lincoln’s death. Explain how your choice shows this.
2. Craft and Structure: What does the word “arrest” mean in this sermon? How do you know?
3. Knowledge and Ideas: How do Dr. Gurley’s contrasting statements echo the feeling of that moment in history?
my Notes
About the Author
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) is now considered one of America’s greatest poets, but his untraditional poetry was not well received during his lifetime. As a young man, he worked as a printer and a journalist while writing free-verse poetry. His collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, first came out in 1855, and he revised and added to it several times over the years. During the Civil War, he worked in Washington, first caring for injured soldiers in hospitals and later as a government clerk.
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