I wanted to share with you a video we took this week. I decided this year that I wanted to do something for Martin Luther King Jr. that would mae it real to the students. So rather than just giving them some silly worksheet, I took them, as well as another sixth grade class and two fifth grade classes, into the auditorium, and after some from first hand experience from Mrs. Carlson, and some preteaching from Mrs. Lawrence, I gave the "I Have a Dream" speech. I really think it had the affect I was looking for. If your student hasn't mentioned it to you yet, bring it up with them, and see what they have to say.
"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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