EDSITEment: Dr. King’s Dream

In this lesson, students will learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Students will listen to a brief biography, view photographs of the March on Washington, view a portion of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in August 1963, and discuss what King’s words mean to them. Finally, they will create picture books about their own dreams of freedom for Americans today.

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