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Write Your Own "I Have a Dream" Speech

Subjects: Arts & Humanities, Civics, Holidays, Language Arts, Social Studies, U.S. History
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Brief Description

Students use a fill-in-the-blanks work sheet to write speeches that imitate the form and content of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Objectives

Students

  • listen to King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
  • use a fill-in-the-blanks worksheet to express their dreams for the world in a format similar to King's speech.

Keywords

dream, Martin Luther King, speech

Materials Needed

  • recording of King's "I Have a Dream" speech:

    Lesson Plan

    Explain to students that they are going to learn about Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of the future and think about their own dreams.

    • Play a recorded version of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech so students can get a sense of King's delivery and of the excitement the speech generated.
    • Discuss with students King's dream for the country, and ask why people might consider the speech great. Ask students to think about their own dreams for the future.
    • Have students complete the ThinkQuest "I Have a Dream Too!" work sheet at http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Starter.htm.

    Assessment

    Students present their speeches to their classmates. Ask each student to privately grade his or her peers' speeches with a rating of 3 (good work), 4 (very good job), or 5 (superb effort). Average the peer scores to come up with each student's final grade.

    Lesson Plan Source

    Education World

    National Standards

    FINE ARTS

    • Theatre
      GRADES K - 4
      NA-T.K-4.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
      NA-T.K-4.2 Acting By Assuming Roles And Interacting In Improvisations

      GRADES 5 - 8
      NA-T.5-8.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
      NA-T.5-8.2 Acting By Assuming Roles And Interacting In Improvisations

      GRADES 9 - 12
      NA-T.9-12.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
      NA-T.9-12.2 Acting By Assuming Roles And Interacting In Improvisations

    LANGUAGE ARTS

    SOCIAL SCIENCES

    TECHNOLOGY

    GRADES K - 12
    NT.K-12.4 Technology Communications Tools

    See more lessons at Happy Birthday, MLK at
    http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson046.shtml.

    Click here to return to the Martin Luther King Jr. lesson plan page.

    Originally published 1/4/2002
    Links last updated 04/17/2007





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