Are you in need of a quick Valentines Day poetry lesson plan to share with your students tomorrow?
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Lesson Plans - Language Arts
Walk with Martin Luther King, Jr. on his historic march on Washington, hear parts of his inspirational speech, ?I Have a Dream? and envision your own dreams of freedom for all Americans and the people of the world. Students will review Dr. King’s life. 
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.
Encourage your students to explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.?s “I Have a Dream” speech by paying attention to the details of King’s speech as they read and as they gather words to use in their own original poems. 
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