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**Hey class! This week will be taking time to learn specially about the exciting life of Martin Luther King Jr. Here is our week’s schedule and all the activities that will take place each day:**

**__Monday:__**

Today you will begin learning about MLK with a partner. Each pair has to research at least 10 facts about MLK. Each fact has to be written out in one complete sentence. Your facts must come from 5 different sources on the Internet and you will write these on an index card. Be creative with your facts! Try to find something unique about Martin Luther King!

Here is source to get you started off: [|Martin Luther King Jr.]

**__Tuesday:__**

Today we will read “My Bother Martin” as a class. When I say it is time, please gather in the reading area and sit on the floor in a circle. Please pay close attention as I read the book to the class because afterwards we will then have circle talk activity. During circle talk activity, you as a class will discuss the different aspects of the book and explore in depth the early life of MLK. You then will each make a Venn diagram on Word, comparing your childhood with the childhood of MLK. The left side of the diagram will be facts about your childhood and the right side will be facts about MLK’s childhood. Please include at least 5 facts per side and at least 3 similarities in the middle. This is a basic example of what it should look like:



Here is also a link to give you instructions on how to make a Venn diagram in Microsoft Word: [|Venn Diagram]

**__Wednesday:__**

Today we will be making PowerPoint presentation timelines. You may do this with a partner but it is not required. Your PowerPoint will be a timeline of MLK’s life from the day of his birth (your first slide) to the day of his assassination (your last slide). The timeline will need to have a minimum of 8 slides total. The slides must represent important points of MLK’s life in order of date. Each slide needs to have a date, a short paragraph explaining the importance of that date and a picture. Although I will briefly go over with you the instructions on how to make your PowerPoint, here is a link you can go to for help while you are creating your timeline slideshow: [|PowerPoint]

**__Thursday:__**

Today we will be watching a video of MLK’s famous speech “I Have a Dream.” As you are watching, you will take notes what you observe in the video and will record your and opinions of his speech. Afterward you will each be writing your own poems, using the repeating line “I have a dream.” You must have at least 5 lines and an illustration at the bottom of the peom. Each line needs to be a sentence long and start with the phrase “I have a dream.” Other than those instructions I am not requiring your lines to be any specific structure and they do not have to rhyme. This poem can reflect your dreams you have for yourself, our country, and/or our world in general. Here are 4 consecutive lines of MLK’s speech that serve as an example for your poem:

**I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."**

**I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.**

**I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.**

**I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.**

**__Friday:__**

Today, in another circle talk activity, we will review everything we have learned about MLK and the times he lived in. After reviewing, you will return to your desks and write a letter to MLK as if he was alive and able to read it today. Your letter may include things like how he has affected and impacted you and our country today, and how his experiences, beliefs and struggles have made you feel. You may write whatever you feel like you would tell MLK today if he was standing in front of you.