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Martin Luther King Day professional development Common Core W.7.4 resources
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Martin Luther King Day Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School
This Martin Luther King Readers Theater Unit is one your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating MLK Day activities into your language arts instruction. This 10-character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making it a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This is the perfect resource for sharing information about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while staying on task with your reading and writ
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA American History Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Big Kids
Selma Lord Selma Video Viewing Guide - Black History Month Activity
This viewing guide can be used while students watch the film "Selma Lord Selma" about the freedom marches in Selma, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. It includes a characterization graphic organizer for students to record important information about the main characters in the film. Also included are several higher-order thinking questions for students to answer during and/or after the film viewing.In addition to the viewing guide, there is also a Venn Diagram Activity that requires stude
Grades:
6th - 9th
"I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King CCSS Literary Resources Unit
This product features numerous different graphic organizers that allow for a close reading of “I Have a Dream” as well as multiple writing opportunities. All of these tasks were created with Common Core in mind!
These rigorous organizers really ask students to closely read Dr. King's infamous speech. Students must analyze his iconic words and dig deep to determine what the ideas behind his speech were. This can be used in a multitude of ways. Students can complete these individually, with a
Grades:
5th - 8th
Writing Fluency: 90 15 Minute Quickwrites, 40 Writing Topics, Test Prep,Sub
Writing fluency! The Fifteen Minute Quickwrite Unit arms teachers with a writing tool that will increase how much students can write during a timed writing assessment. It also gives students a lifetime skill of improved writing fluency that will help them meet future writing goals. 40 Writing Topics can be used in shared classroom timed writing notebooks to improve fluency and allow students to have fun writing.Product includes:90 Quickwrites (4 pages) in PDF format. Printable.40 Writing Topi
Grades:
6th - 12th
Martin Luther King MLK Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers
Introducing essay writing for Martin Luther King MLK Day has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric,
Grades:
6th - 8th
Civil Rights Movement 1960s Research Project: MLK Jr. & Black History
Civil Rights Movement 1960s is a choice board research project that guides students through the writing process as they learn more about the Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Movement 1960s gives students the chance to become an expert on one part of this huge, history-changing movement. Students will discuss reliable sources, what they already know about the Civil Rights Movement before diving into research. Students will take the Civil Rights Movement facts they gather and choose from 9 pro
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Informational Writing Bundle
3 Classroom Bucket Lists for Back to School, End of the Year, and PD / $1 Deal
Bucket lists can be used as part of back-to-school, end-of-the-year reflection, and as part of professional development. Writing a bucket list is a good way to get to know students, to build classroom community, and to set classroom goals. This is a great activity for writing on the first day of school or as a way to wrap up the year! To make this useful for you, I've included 3 versions of each plus a Google Slides and fillable .pdf. Since this resource contains a Google Slides, TPT will create
Grades:
5th - 12th, Staff
Martin Luther King Jr. Inference Quotation Paragraph Expository Writing
If you are looking for an authentic learning experience for students to have while learning about Martin Luther King Jr., this is your assignment!
I show the "I Have a Dream" speech to my students and we talk about his words. We also discuss his life and different roles briefly before I hand out the following assignment.
I found several thought-provoking quotations from Martin Luther King Jr. that were challenging, but accessible to 7th grade students. Students discuss quotations in partn
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Martin Luther King Jr. Research One Pager- An Engaging Research Activity
In this activity, students have the opportunity to research Martin Luther King Jr., his life, his accomplishments, and other aspects. Students will use their research information from their planning page to create a one pager. One pagers are meant to be artistic illustrations of information so students are encouraged to add color and images to the one pager. What's Included:Teacher InstructionsResearch Planning Page with Guiding QuestionsOne Pager Instruction PageResearch One Pager TemplateTeach
Grades:
6th - 8th
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MLK Day: Martin Luther King Jr Activity, Webquest, Biography Summary
Looking for an engaging activity to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. or MLK Day? Your students will enjoy learning more about the life and achievements of this civil rights leader through a biography summary activity. In a user-friendly, graphic organizer template, students will summarize the life and biography of MLK. It’s no-prep for you, but quality content for your students. Make research fun and enjoyable with this biography summary webquest.What is Included:A detailed page of teacher ins
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Not Grade Specific
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MLK Writing Activity
Use these Martin Luther King Day writing prompts in your classroom to encourage thought about the civil right's leader's life and legacy. The following themes are included in these prompts: civil disobedience, non-violence, and race relations. The prompts ask students to consider Dr. King's methods and effectiveness in creating a change in society.
These prompts could be used as easily as a quick-write to spur thought in the classroom, or could be extended to include an essay or research pr
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Grade 7 English Language Arts (ELA) Tool Kit for Educators, PARCC Edition
Grade 7 English Language Arts (ELA) Tool Kit for Educators: Standards Aligned Sample Questions, Apps, Books, Articles and Videos to Promote Personalized Learning and Student Engagement, PARCC Edition
This book is a directory of educational resources that every teacher and parent will find useful while helping their students learn seventh grade English Language Arts (ELA) skills. It is designed to help educators easily find high quality resources to create personalized learning and differentiate
Grades:
7th, Staff
Civil Rights Movement Leader Book Report
Combine reading, writing, and social studies with this Civil Rights Movement Leader Book Report. Students will choose a leader of the Civil Rights Movement they would like to study more about and do a book report on that individual. This report includes:people to choose fromreport outlinegrading rubricThis is an excellent month long project.
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Black History Month Bundle
Writing the Five Paragraph Essay
This pack is a seven page FRAMEWORK for helping students to write a five paragraph essay. It is designed to use a combination of brainstorming, graphic organizer mapping, and an a peer editing process that uses specifics from the essay, as opposed to simple checklist editing. It is applicable not only in English/Language Arts, but is an excellent tool for any teacher across content areas who has been asked to include writing in their curriculum, and can also serve as an excellent, easy to expl
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Acrostic Poem (w/ example)
An educator can choose a variety of ways to use this resource!This Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day acrostic poem set is a fun resource for teaching (and/or reinforcing) students how to complete acrostic poems. This resource can be used to complete an "I do", "We do", "You do" activity. Or either of the three. Teachers can display the colored pages on their whiteboard for the "I do" and "We do" portions, and then print out the black and white option for the students to work on (and perhaps color i
Grades:
3rd - 8th
SEL Activity: What are you thankful for?
Take 10 minutes out of the beginning of your class for a quick check-in. Print this sheet for students to fill out at any point in the school year. They can keep it or turn it in to you. I find that taking a break from teaching and letting students reflect helps them to be better focused for the lesson.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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