“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”  -Abe Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863.

Mrs. Karen Pitts, middle school art teacher, spent a week this past summer in Springfield, Illinois with 39 other teachers throughout the United States on the SUIE college campus studying Abraham Lincoln. 

Each summer the National Endowment of Humanities conducts teacher seminars throughout the United States on historical subjects.   Mrs. Pitts was chosen out of 200 applicants to attend a week long study on Abraham Lincoln.  At the end of the seminar, teachers were required to create a lesson from the knowledge gained during the seminar.

Mrs. Pitts 8th grade art students began a lesson on “Political Cartoons and Abe Lincoln” with the making of Lincoln’s hat.  Mrs. Pitts said, “The hats were made to help the students start thinking like Abe Lincoln.”  At the conclusion of the lesson, the class will create a political cartoon using a current political event.