In this activity each student imagines he or she is one of these former leaders who has come back to visit. Ask students to think about what these leaders represented and to write a speech as if they were one of these leaders who has returned for a visit today.
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Each student will make a drawing of an event in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Once completed, they can be quilted together and displayed in the hall to celebrate Black History Month.
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Caldecott Honor book, Coretta Scott King Honor book, and an Orbis Pictus Award winner, tells of King’s childhood determination to use “big words” through biographical information and quotations. Using this book as well as other resources on Dr. King, students explore information on King’s “big” words then choose one of two options: (1) they write about their own “big” words and dreams in stapled or stitched books, or (2) they construct found poems using an excerpt from one of King’s speeches. 
Students will learn about the pain and injustice of segregation 
In this lesson students will learn more about who MLK was, what many of his contributions to society were and why those contributions were important. |
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