Like many classes across the US we have been learning about Martin Luther King Jr. this week. Yesterday we read Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport. Then I gave the students copies of the important dates and asked them to choose the four that they thought were most important in describing why we celebrate Martin Luther King Day. I thought it might give them a little practice in picking out main ideas as we seem to still struggle a bit with this skill.
The students colored in pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. and pasted them to the beginning of their paper. They drew a timeline across and used speech bubbles to write down the events they chose. Here is what the final product looked like:
Then I asked the students to brainstorm the dreams that they had for their school, their community, and the World. This is what they came up with:
You can tell that some of their dreams are related to recent news events :(
We used the brainstorms to write a paragraph about each of these dreams. After the students wrote about their own dreams, we went to the computer lab to research Martin Luther King Jr.'s dreams. They wrote a paragraph about what they found. We put the two together for a cute craftivity.
Today we worked on our essays comparing our dreams to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dreams. We started with a graphic organizer that looked like this:
You can tell that some of their dreams are related to recent news events :(
We used the brainstorms to write a paragraph about each of these dreams. After the students wrote about their own dreams, we went to the computer lab to research Martin Luther King Jr.'s dreams. They wrote a paragraph about what they found. We put the two together for a cute craftivity.
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