Educator+Teaching+Materials

==**First Grade: ** == This lesson will take 2 days.

First Day:

 * 1) 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]
 * 2) Ask the students about various goals they have in life and what they aspire to be.
 * 3) Type up these words using a SMART board for all to see.
 * 4) Using the SMART board, search for images that go with the goals/jobs they have chosen. Create a PowerPoint as a group.

Second Day:

 * 1) Review the previous day's PowerPoint as a group.
 * 2) Ask your students to write down three words illustrating the picture they have chosen/their dream.
 * 3) Begin the paragraph starting with these words "I Have a Dream...."
 * 4) Use the Rubric in Student Performance to assess this paragraph.

==**Fourth Grade: ** == This lesson will take 2-3 days to complete. you will be writing a three paragraph essay based on Martin Luther King and three different important events in his life. __Three-Paragraph Essay Outline (First Draft)__ 1. PREWRITE 2. Writing your FIRST paragraph 3. Writing your SECOND paragraph 4. Writing your THIRD paragraph
 * Brainstorming & Organizing (Circle the TWO most important points you’re going to make)
 * For PreWriting, use the bookmark [|MLK Timelines] to find information for your essay.
 * Develop a graphic organizer at bubbl.us to organize your information.
 * LEAD (5-8 lines of a personal life experience story)
 * Topic Sentence(s) (Tells what’s going on in the entire essay and answers the given question or states your opinion)
 * State your __first and most important__ PRIMARY SUPPORT
 * THREE details for your Primary Support (Your details can be in the form of facts from an outside source)
 * Transition sentence to connect to the next paragraph (Use a transition word (Next, Second, Then, Soon) and use repetition (a word/phrase coming next)
 * Transition sentence to connect with the first paragraph (State your 2 or 3 SECONDARY SUPPORTS and use a transition word or repetition from the first paragraph)
 * Two to Three details for each Secondary Support (More facts from a outside sources, examples, quotes, or statistics)
 * Transition sentence to connect to the next paragraph
 * Transition sentence to connect with the first paragraph
 * FINAL SUPPORT (More facts from outside sources, examples, quotes, or statistics)
 * PERSONAL LIFE EXPERIENCE (Continuation of the LEAD with wrap up to the story)
 * Clincher Statement (Summarizes the essay (all three paragraphs), restates your answer to the question, restates your opinion and many times includes a ‘message for life’: a THEME)