Martin Luther King Book Martin’s Big Words By: Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier Follow the Drinking Gourd By: Jeanette Winter By: Karen Katz The Color of Us Web Sites: Extension Activities The students will write and draw in their journals about why they are happy to be free. Also they will write about something that they are thankful for that they wouldn’t be able to have if they were slaves. The purpose of this is to allow the students to take what they have learned and put it in their own words and/or image. This will help solidify the information as it will be in a context they relate to. Lesson in Appreciating Others: The Martin’s Big Words is truly a wonderful piece of children’s literature. It addresses the issue of civil rights in a very vivid and historically accurate lens. It mentions and depicts tragic times of violence in America; Violence that came about as a result of the fight for civil liberties. In the end of the book, Martin dies. I feel like this will sincerely hit home with children, particularly if we ask them at some point in the book if they feel Martin is a likeable man, and someone perhaps they would like to be friends with.
Martin Luther King Book Martin’s Big Words By: Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier Follow the Drinking Gourd By: Jeanette Winter The Color of Us By: Karen Katz Web Sites: Extension Activities The students will write and draw in their journals about why they are happy to be free. Also they will write about something that they are thankful for that they wouldn’t be able to have if they were slaves. The purpose of this is to allow the students to take what they have learned and put it in their own words and/or image. This will help solidify the information as it will be in a context they relate to. Lesson in Appreciating Others: The Martin’s Big Words is truly a wonderful piece of children’s literature. It addresses the issue of civil rights in a very vivid and historically accurate lens. It mentions and depicts tragic times of violence in America; Violence that came about as a result of the fight for civil liberties. In the end of the book, Martin dies. I feel like this will sincerely hit home with children, particularly if we ask them at some point in the book if they feel Martin is a likeable man, and someone perhaps they would like to be friends with.