Overview

 First Grade:
**This unit will take up to a week to complete. The highlighted yellow section is a one-day lesson plan that has been expanded in Educator Teaching Materials.**

During snack time, give snacks to only the girls or only the boys- Watch and observe their reactions to not being given a snack. After about ten minutes, in order to prevent a mutiny, ask the "offended" group how they felt and why. Some questions to ask: How did you feel when I purposefully excluded you from snack time? How did you feel when I discriminated against you and made you wait to eat your snack? Explain to the students that you are demonstrating prejudice or unequal treatment.

Create a KWL chart listing information about Martin Luther King.

Read the story A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Adler to the class.

Martin Luther King is famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech. Listen to the speech. The speech can be found via this link: [|Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream in ASL]

Create a paragraph starting with the words "I Have a Dream...." When you have decided what your dream is, use the Google search engine or old magazines (use camera to take a picture) to search for images illustrating your dream. Use this information to create a Powerpoint slide to be compiled with everyone else's slides in a class project.

Ask students to come to school the next day in costumes showing what their dreams are- take a digital picture and they can use this in their powerpoint slide.

Print out each student's dream and print his/her picture in black/white and mount the images/paragraphs on a bulletin board for all to see.

 Fourth Grade:
 This unit will take up to two weeks to complete. The highlighted yellow section is a one-day lesson plan that has been expanded in Educator Teaching Materials.

Create a KWL chart listing information about Martin Luther King.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Martin Luther King is famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech. Listen to the speech. The speech can be found via this link: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream in ASL]

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