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Use <a href="/cm/worksheets/2502/gettysburg.pdf">this worksheet</a> to help students use vocabulary and key lines from the address to discover Lincoln's lasting message to Americans. <a href="/cm/worksheets/getting-to-the-heart-of-gettysburg-2013/" class="readMore">Continue reading...</a> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="topics"> <h5 class="webfont related">Article Topics:</h5> <div> <a href="/topics/Teaching/" title="Read other articles about Teaching">Teaching</a> </div> </div> <a class="otherarticles" href="/cm/worksheets/">Click here to read more articles from Weekly Worksheet.</a> </div></div> <div class="story"> <div class="content"> <div class="header"><a href="/vocabgrabber/"><h4 class="webfont sectionname">VOCABGRABBER</h4></a></div> <a href="/vocabgrabber/"><img src="//d1r3b8xpnlyvar.cloudfront.net/vocabgrabber/images/tout-17hk9n.gif" style="float: right;margin-top: -8px;" ></a> <div class="abstract"> Automatically create lists of vocabulary from any text using the Visual Thesaurus <a href="/vocabgrabber/">VocabGrabber</a>. </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <a class="otherarticles" href="/vocabgrabber/">Try it now!</a> </div> <div class="story"> <div class="content"> <a href="/bee/"><img src="//d1r3b8xpnlyvar.cloudfront.net/images/bee/bee-sm-1tk9a6c.gif" style="float: right;" ></a> <div class="header"><a href="/bee/"><h4 class="webfont sectionname">SPELLING BEE</h4></a></div> <div class="abstract"> Think you are a good speller? 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