MLK Lesson!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration!!!

I decided to dedicate an entire post to my MLK lesson :)

Here is what we did last Friday....

{We did not get to finish it all because of our Pep Rally}

We created a KWHL foldable for Dr. King & the Civil Rights Movement!

 

We used our Scholastic Action Magazine that arrived earlier this month 

and was centered around Dr. King!

We read through the fact sheet, Reader's Theater, and the back cover {a picture tells a story section}

We used the online resources Scholastic provides with the Magazine and watched 2 short video clips.

One, a short clip from Dr. King's Speech, and the second "Struggle for Equality."

We filled out our Foldables & the kids did an amazing job on their answers!!!

{my kids are VERY WELL trained on Foldables and make them in under 5 min.}

One of the most important things that we do when create foldables is THINK-PAIR-SHARE!!!

The kids really love to share the answers on their flaps and unfortunately I don't have the time to hear them all share, so.... we dedicate 5 minutes to
THINK-PAIR-SHARE!!!

Here are mini videos on how we do it :)
I LOVE my 6th graders!!!
{I'm also very biased since I had them as my 3rd graders :) }

It was a GREAT lesson filled with wonderful discussion!

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Today, we read & discussed these fantastic book!!!!

  

We completed this cute little packet, a FREEBIE from Mandy over at Cooperative Learning 365

Thanks Mandy!!!!

We watched Jane Elliot's A Class Divided, video

here is a little snippet:

WOW! What a discussion this video sparked!!! I wish I could do this experiment with my classes!

Lastly, every student wrote about their dream for improving the world we live in.
Their only instruction was to write about an issue that is close to their heart.

Click on the image below to grab this FREEBIE :)

I will be binding these up as a book for our classroom library :)

We had an AWESOME day!!!!!!

How did you celebrate MLK with your students?!?