Martin Luther King
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Lesson Plans | Primary
Sources | Quotes
Lesson Plans:
Critical
Thinking: I have a Dream Speech - The lesson has individual sections
divided into vocabulary development, rhetorical structures (figures
of speech), understanding the speech, relating to the speech, and
an optional opportunity for students to record the speech
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Evaluating
Web Sites for Bias - In this activity, pairs of students visit
two Web sites about Martin Luther King Jr. and evaluate the content
and credibility. Students use a checklist that will guide them as
they consider the sponsor of each Web site, the validity of the information
presented, evidence of bias, and so on
Primary Source Documents:
Martin
Luther King Jr. - Words that Changed a Nation - CNN Special Report
-- Thousands of primary source documents collected from the papers
of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Woodruff Library for Morehouse
College in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection helps explore King's
philosophy, goals and even his fears as he and those around him created
a revolution.
Martin
Luther King Research and Education Institute - The King Papers
Project's principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume
edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches,
published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. The published volumes
of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., have already influenced
scholarship and become essential reference works.
Audio, Video and Full Text of MLK's
"I Have a Dream" Speech |
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