On Monday, the class was not surprised to see Mr. Boyle standing outside his door with a stack of papers. We walked in, sat down, and read parts of Lincoln's speech and answered questions. They were a little tricky this time around. Lately, the documents have been really hard to figure out, and it is disappointing because we do not really go over them or learn why they were significant besides the obvious reason of them being excerpts from Lincoln's speeches. The speech was talking about the government and preserving it, the government being an golden apple and the Constitution being a frame around it, protecting it from ever being harmed.
Today in class, we focused mainly on South Carolina seceding from the United States and why they did it. We read some dense documents and tried to answer the questions following the reading, but it was hard and the discussion after we were supposed to figure out the documents was a little bit strained. We also talked about how the rest of the lower south followed suit and left the United States to form a Confederacy.
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