Martin Luther King Jr.

Essential Question

Can words about identity hurt people?
How can I live, work and play with others when we have differences?

Texts

Literature

What If There Were No Black People?

In this poem, the speaker explores how our culture would be lacking—in people, in music, in movements, in contributions—without contributions of African Americans.

Sean Mauricette (aka SUBLIMINAL)

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

History

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

July 3, 2014

Multimedia

StoryCorps: I Was the First Black Student

“The students wouldn't speak to me...”

A.P. Tureaud Jr. and Steven Walkley

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

July 8, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Word Work

Four-Fold Vocabulary

Interactive “foldables” help students learn new vocabulary through defining, illustrating and using words in sentences.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

L.3-5.4, L.3-5.6

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Picture Books

Students work in small groups to write and illustrate an original children's picture book to teach others about a social justice or diversity topic present in the central text.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

mromero93

Martin Luther King Jr.

What If There Were No Black People?

StoryCorps: I Was the First Black Student

Four-Fold Vocabulary

Picture Books

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