This thematic unit is based on Martin Luther King, Jr. The unit plan has multiple different activities designed to help students practice close reading of a text, find and support central ideas within a text, learn how and then use accountable talk strategies, vocabulary building work, analysis of a text, comparing/ contrasting a text, and MORE. It also leads students through an analysis of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. All of the activities can work together as a complete unit, or c