{"id":477,"date":"2026-07-21T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/?p=477"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:12:58","slug":"july-20-2026-debate-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/2026\/07\/21\/july-20-2026-debate-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"July 20, 2026-Debate Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"

To start the final week of classes, students discussed the election of 1864, looking at Frederick Douglass\u2019s \u201cMission of the War,\u201d Anna Dickinson\u2019s \u201cPerils of the Hour,\u201d and the Gettysburg Address. During the break, students met with the two grad TAs to decide positions for this week\u2019s Lincoln and Douglass debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Choosing positions with a coin toss<\/p><\/div>\n

After a subtext lecture with Professor Mealy and a quick lunch, students headed to their first debate prep session. They worked on familiarizing themselves with Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass\u2019s arguments over the best way to end slavery, honing their arguments for Friday. In the final few hours before close reading essays and videos were due at 7, students worked to fine-tune their arguments. Once everything was submitted, staff and students celebrated with a trip to Massey\u2019s for some ice cream. With work for the day completed, some students relaxed by watching a movie. Overall, it was another day full of learning, and the students felt proud of themselves for completing their close reading assignments!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Two

Yum!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A

A welcome treat\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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To start the final week of classes, students discussed the election of 1864, looking at Frederick Douglass\u2019s \u201cMission of the War,\u201d Anna Dickinson\u2019s \u201cPerils of the Hour,\u201d and the Gettysburg Address. During the break, students met with the two grad TAs to decide positions for this week\u2019s Lincoln and Douglass debate. After a subtext lecture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seminar-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2026teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}