Active Reading Jot down events on the diagram below to help you keep track of the order in which events occur. As you read chapters 7-9, follow the arrows as you not important events in the boxes. Name______________________________________________________________ Across Five Aprils Chapters 10-12 Setting a Purpose Read to learn whether the end of the war will also mean an end to the conflicts between the North and South. Background Did You Know? On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that in its revised form would later become the Emancipation Proclamation. This official public announcement declared that in states that had seceded from the Union, all enslaved persons would be “forever free” unless the states returned to the Union by January 1, 1863. When these states failed to reenter the Union that January, the proclamation went into effect, but it did not actually free all enslaved people. More than eight hundred thousand enslaved people lived in border states that had remained in the Union or in Union-occupied areas. Under the terms of the proclamation, these people were not made “forever free.” By wording this early version of the amendment as he did, Lincoln was able to win the much-needed support of abolitionists and weaken the Confederacy without angering slaveholders in the Union. Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is a situation in which the audience is aware of something that a character does not know. For example, most readers of Across Five Aprils know that President Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865. Thus, when Ross Milton says that he is counting on Lincoln to help heal the bitterness between North and South, readers know, but Milton cannot know that this will not be possible. As you read, look for other examples of dramatic irony.
Active Reading Jot down events on the diagram below to help you keep track of the order in which events occur. As you read chapters 7-9, follow the arrows as you not important events in the boxes. Name______________________________________________________________ Across Five Aprils Chapters 10-12 Setting a Purpose Read to learn whether the end of the war will also mean an end to the conflicts between the North and South. Background Did You Know? On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that in its revised form would later become the Emancipation Proclamation. This official public announcement declared that in states that had seceded from the Union, all enslaved persons would be “forever free” unless the states returned to the Union by January 1, 1863. When these states failed to reenter the Union that January, the proclamation went into effect, but it did not actually free all enslaved people. More than eight hundred thousand enslaved people lived in border states that had remained in the Union or in Union-occupied areas. Under the terms of the proclamation, these people were not made “forever free.” By wording this early version of the amendment as he did, Lincoln was able to win the much-needed support of abolitionists and weaken the Confederacy without angering slaveholders in the Union. Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is a situation in which the audience is aware of something that a character does not know. For example, most readers of Across Five Aprils know that President Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865. Thus, when Ross Milton says that he is counting on Lincoln to help heal the bitterness between North and South, readers know, but Milton cannot know that this will not be possible. As you read, look for other examples of dramatic irony.
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