I Have A Dream: Analyzing Speeches

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Go over the I Have a Dream worksheet with your students.
• Explain each dream to your students in detail with an example.
• An example for the first dream could be explaining to your students that even though the United States was based on the creed of equality, African Americans were not treated equally, as they were not allowed to sit in the same buses as other races..

Guided Practice

• Show your students the Martin Luther King Biography by Biography Channel.
• Ask your students to take notes on the video. Have them write at least ten facts from the video.
• Instruct them to share what they wrote with a partner.
• Direct your students to share one idea that they wrote with the class.

Independent working time

• Ask your students to complete the Martin Luther King, Jr. crossword using their video notes.
• Go over the crossword as a class.