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Activity

Martin Luther King

Key Learning

Students will investigate how vocabulary can express meaning, feeling and opinion. Students will learn about Martin Luther King and the impact of his “I Have a Dream’ speech on civil rights.

The Australian Curriculum

|English / Language / Language variation and change | |English / Literature / Literature and context |

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|Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can | |Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and |

|express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525) | |characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, |

|[pic] | |social and cultural contexts (ACELT1619) |

|Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of | |[pic] |

|meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different | |Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of |

|contexts(ACELA1512) | |characters and events represented in texts drawn from different |

|[pic] | |historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613) |

|Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own | |[pic] |

|texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498) | |Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information |

|[pic] | |about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (ACELT1608) |

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| | |English / Literacy / Creating texts |

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| | |Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts,|

| | |selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, |

| | |and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725) |

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Discussion Questions

1. In Australia it is illegal to discriminate against someone because of their race. True or false?

2. What was Martin Luther King’s famous speech called?

3. What year did Martin Luther King make his “I Have a Dream” speech?

4. Martin Luther King was an American civil rights activist, what does this mean?

5. Give some examples of segregation that occurred in America in the 1950s.

6. In which American state was Martin Luther King born? Find using Google Maps.

7. Martin Luther King led peaceful protests in the 1950s. What is a peaceful protest?

8. Name the Australian civil rights leader that was inspired by Martin Luther King.

9. When did segregation laws end in the United States?

10. What prestigious award did Martin Luther King win for his role in the Civil Rights Movement?

Activities

|Classroom discussion |

After watching the BtN Martin Luther King story hold a class discussion, using some of the following questions.

Images: tes.co.uk – The Martin Luther King Story (by David Adler)

As a class listen to Martin Luther King’s famous speech, ‘I Have a Dream’. Ask students to circle the following words as they hear them. Record any unfamiliar words.

Ask students to write what they think is the meaning of each word (including unfamiliar words). Swap definitions with a partner and ask them to add to or change the definition. Check these against the dictionary definition. As a class investigate how vocabulary can express meaning, feeling and opinion.

Further activities for students:

• Make your own word search

• Use these words in your own sentences

|I have a dream |

Ask students to write their own “I have a dream” speech, and then illustrate using the template on the following page.

I have a dream

because

|Who is Martin Luther King? |

Students will develop a biography on Martin Luther King. Establish what students already know about Martin Luther King. What sort of information is included in a biography? What does a biography tell us about a person?

The following website has examples of biographies for students to look at



The following plan provides a guide for students when writing a biography.

• Research

• Set a direction for your biography

• Create a plan

• Start writing

• Edit

For a more detailed plan download this pdf document.

Encourage students to present their research using maps, timelines, drawings and photographs in an interesting way, for example using:

• Prezi

• Glogster

• Bio Cube Creator

Remind students that they will need to cite all references in a bibliography at the end of their biography.

( Related Research Links

ABC News – US marks 50 years since Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech



ABC News – Martin Luther King delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963



ABC Splash – What makes a great speech?



Behind the News – Racism



Behind the News – Discrimination



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Episode 25

3rd September 2013

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Emancipation

Segregation

Equality

Racial Injustice

Civil Rights

Liberty

Justice

Independence

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Discussion questions

• When and where do you think this speech was made?

• How did this speech make you feel?

• What makes Martin Luther King’s speech memorable?

• What do you think are the things that are most important when making a speech?

Research questions

• When was Martin Luther King born and when did he die?

• Where was he born?

• What was his occupation?

• Who did he marry and did he have any children?

• What political movement was he a part of?

• Describe the language of his “I Have a Dream” speech.

• What awards did he win?

• Describe the impact that Martin Luther King had on civil rights in the United Stated of America.

• Create a timeline – highlight important events that occurred during Martin Luther King’s life on a timeline. Include some other key or interesting events that occurred during the same time.

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