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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Similarities and Differences Between Two Text

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
For this lesson, through guided practice, the students use two texts about Martin Luther King to compare the similarities and differences between those texts. Includes videos of the lesson in action, printable charts, and a graphic...
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Article
Seeker

Seeker: Mlk Tested 'Dream' Speech as a Teen

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on a speech given by a teen Martin Luther King, Jr. and its similiarities to his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Includes a video.
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Activity
TES Global

Tes: 'Ain't I a Woman?' and 'I Have a Dream'

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this series of activities, students will compare Sojouner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech". Students will look at literal and implied...
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Website
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Mlk Murals

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a slide show documenting "city portraits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. across America."
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Graphic
Curated OER

Portrait Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A newspaper photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., taken during a 1964 press conference.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Martin Luther King, Jr., Speaking

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cartoon representation of Martin Luther King, Jr., at a podium
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Graphic
Curated OER

Martin Luther King Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
Pic of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Npr: Media: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Close-up view of the granite statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., part of the memorial to the slain civil rights leader located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Handout
Stanford University

Stanford University: King Institute: Encyclopedia: Memphis Sanitation Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the strike, in 1968, by sanitation workers in Memphis, a key episode in the long struggle for civil rights in America and the site of Martin Luther King's assassination in April of that year.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

National Park Service: Dr. King's Vision for World Peace [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site has a PDF file on Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech and his dream of world peace, students look at the possibility of peace in the world.
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Unit Plan
NBC

Nbc Learn: 1966 1968: Challenges

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this video/lesson series we will explore how Martin Luther King broadens his scope, speaking out against poverty and the Vietnam War. However,he is met with resistance - from white protestors, from Lyndon Johnson, and from some in his...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What's in a Dream?

For Teachers K - 1st
Young learners really struggle with multi-meaning words. Using Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, students will become familiar with 'dream' as the concept of 'dreaming' in the sense of a want rather than just something they...
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Primary
Other

Letter From Birminghham Jail [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This letter shares Martin Luther King's reflections about his involvement in peaceful demonstrations. The letter provides historical information about the plight of African Americans throughout history and why he and others are so...
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Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Coretta Scott King (1927 2006)

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Georgia Encyclopedia discusses in-depth the life and work of civil and human rights leader, Coretta Scott King.
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Handout
Other

Mlkcc: The Seven Steps of Non Violent Action

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Martin Luther King Celebration Committee Inc. gives an outline of the Seven Steps of Non-Violent Action as defined by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Find out more about this tremendous historical Civil Rights leader.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Special Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Multimedia collection of video, primary text documents and audio on Civil Rights, especially Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike Expanded the Civil Rights Struggle

For Students 9th - 10th
With the slogan, "I am a man," workers in Memphis sought financial justice in a strike that fatefully became Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final cause. On February 12, 1968, 1,300 Black sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike to demand...
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Website
US National Archives

Nara: Findings on Mlk Assassination

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the findings of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: An American Leader

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage includes a brief biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
This website from The Nobel Foundation on 1964 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968 ), is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Swedish Nobel...
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Primary
University of Florida

Mwen Gen Yon Rev (I Have a Dream)

For Students 9th - 10th
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" in both English and Haitian Creole.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Three Principles of Civil Disobedience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Both Mahatmas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were influenced by Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience." Have students research and read, using the Internet, the first part of Thoreau's essay. Then have students write an...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Living the Dream 100 Acts of Kindness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for mini-lessons that ask students to put the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in action by performing 100 acts of kindness. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: u.s. History: The Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work as a civil rights leader from the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 up until his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Describes the different protest movements, including the...

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