Learning the Address

is a new project by documentarian Ken Burns to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

Here's the site.

You can record yourself reading the speech and he will display it on the site.

I love the video he has created of all the living presidents, Senators, liberal and conservative, and celebrities reading the Address.

Here's the background of his project:

The inspiration for this project is the tiny Greenwood School in the small town of Putney, Vermont. The school's students, boys ages 11-17, all face a range of learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. Yet each year they are encouraged to practice, memorize, and recite the Gettysburg Address.

The Greenwood School is the focus of Burns's next film, THE ADDRESS, which will air on PBS in the spring of 2014. The two-hour, feature-length documentary shines a light on this extraordinary school and its efforts to memorialize the Gettysburg Address.

How cool is that? Memorization of a speech to aid in discipline and learning.

Mark your calendars for next April….