Tuesday, 19 February 2013

What's Your Dream?

Today I introduced the class to Martin Luther King Junior.

We watched this video:


Looked at these pictures:



And then listened to the last half of his speech from 1963 in Washington while looking at this gorgeous book written by his daughter:



This is my favourite picture:


This is my favourite piece of text:




After discussing what we learned, we re-watched Kid President's Pep Talk (see previous post for link) and then compared the 2 speeches and evaluated which one was more effective. Here are some of the groups as they worked in their Tribes









In honour of Black History month and our study on bullying and the poor treatment of others, we will learn about Rosa Parks as well as the Underground Railroad later this week (if all goes as planned!)

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Thank you to Rylee for speaking so loud today...awesome job!


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