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Lesson
Objectives:
To show me that they
understand,
students will answer questions through the lesson, add to their books,
fill out
a work sheet, write their own dreams and share them, and complete a
fact poster
board. For their books they will be given three questions already
written that
they have to answer. These questions will be about Martin Luther King
and how
he helped with segregation. For the fact sheet they will have to put
definitions, dates and pictures on poster board.
1 Review
Activity
Have the students sit at their desks while you review what you have done in the previous five lessons. First hand out half of a sheet of poster board, scissors and fact sheets to each student and make sure there is a teacher copy. Explain to them that you are going to make a big fact sheet to help you all remember what you have learned so that they do well on the test. After they answer each questions have them cut out the answer and paste them on to their big poster board one after each other. In the end this will be a timeline of events/ a fact sheet of things we have learned about this semester. Ask the students the following questions:
a) Do you remember what we learned way back on the very first day?
Student Response: Allow students
to look through their paper books to find the answer of, “We learned
about
he was president. We
learned that the did not go to school, he was
a lawyer, he was honest, and he worked in a general store.”
b)
Good!
What year was he born in? Where?
c)
Where
did he live as a boy?
d) What job did he have? Worked in a general store, was a lawyer
e) Where did he live when become president? In the White House
f) When was the Civil War and what was it over? 1851-65-Slavery
g) What were slaves lives like? They often did not go to school, worked all week, had torn clothing, and did physical labor.
h)
Who
shot
i)
What is reconstruction? The way of putting the
amendments.
j)
Who helped with it? President Lincoln and Andrew
Johnson
k)
Where
did the slaves go after they were freed? To the North, to
l) What is segregation? When Blacks and Whites can not go to the same places because of racism.
After the students have
finished
thief fact sheets clean up
and move on to the day’s lesson.
2 Instruction
1)
I
will begin the lesson by telling the students that we are going to
learn about
Martin Luther King today. I will show them a picture of him and ask,
“Do you
know who this is and what he did?” I will waif for students to respond
with,
“He helped Black people and White people get along.” Then I will say,
“Good,
but today we are going to learn even more about it and how great he
really
was. First we need to know where he came
from and what he did with his life before he was an adult.” Then hand
out to
students a cross-word puzzle about MLK retrieved from http://www.surfnetkids.com. See Attached Work Sheet)
2)
Go
through each question with the students and guide them to find the
answers to
fill in the blanks. Then say, “Good, now that we know a little bit
about the
person he was we can look at what he did. What was the famous speech
that MLK
gave? What was it called?” Wait for a student to answer, “I have a
dream.” And
then say “Good job. Do you know what made him want to give this speech?
Wait
for a student to answer, “Because he was African American and he didn’t
like
the way that White people were treating him and his friends.” Then I
will say,
“Good! Remember how two weeks ago you guys acted out how it would feel
to not
be able to drink out of a drinking fountain just because of your race?
Well
imagine if that it how it was all of the time. Imagine if you got paid
a lot
less than other people, if you couldn’t’ go where you wanted to and if
you had
to stand on the bus. How do you think
that would make you feel?” Wait for students to share their ideas of
how that
would make them feel. Then say, “So, though there wasn’t any slavery
Blacks
were still not treated as equals. That is why Martin Luther King
decided to
take a stand.
3)
Now
that the concept of Why? Martin Luther King was needed though slavery
was gone,
move to the speech he gave. Give each
student a copy of the speech with a different part highlighted. Explain to students that they are going to
pretend that they are Martin Luther Kin and that they are making this
speech in
front of hundreds of thousands of people.
Tell them to imagine if their entire school was filled with
people
standing shoulder to shoulder and they had to make a speech. To all of
them. Then have them stand up and take
turns reading their part. Remind them that Martin Luther King was very
passionate about this speech because it meant a lot to him and his
friends.
4)
After
students have read the speech give them each a piece of paper in the
shape of a
cloud with the words “I have a dream that:” written at the top of it. Explain to the students that they are to
write their own dreams that they have.
Have them write one dream that they have for themselves and then
one
dream that they have for
5)
When
students are finished writing about their dreams have them share them
with the
group. Have them explain how they can
help make these dreams possible. Use
this to connect to the rest of the semester.
Ask the students questions and wait for appropriate responses.
Some
questions are, “Do you think
3 Response
Activity
Sharing
their dreams is part of the response activity. The final response
activity is
the final part to the student’s books. The students will get pages with
questions about Martin Luther King on it and his dream and be asked to
fill in
the answers based on what they learned during the lesson. Say to the
students,
“Answer all of these questions the best you can and raise your hand if
you can
not remember something. You and your neighbor can work together. Doing
this
book is just a way to review all the new things we learned today. When you finish up you can color a picture of
MLK that I have for you.” Then just walk around and help students as
needed.
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