I Have a Dream…
Subject Language Arts, Social
Studies
Description:
Ask your child what he/she knows about Martin Luther King, Jr., list the answers on paper. Watch this clip from the "I Have a Dream" speech, watch and listen to it together.
Learning Objectives:
- Listening for information
- Recall details of speech
- Research using the internet
- Recognize the social injustices of
the time
Keywords: civil
rights, segregation, demonstration, protest, discrimination
Materials needed:
- Computer with internet access
- A written copy of the speech
- Printout of the following worksheet
- Pen or pencil
Activities:
Explain that this is taken from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Use the words from the word bank to fill in the blanks of the speech. Fill in the blanks using the words in the word bank. You must use some words more than one time.
I have a ________that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true ________ of
its creed: "We hold these __________ to be self-evident: that all men are created
equal."…I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves
and the _________ of ________ slave owners will be able to ________down together at
a table of_________. I have a dream that one day even the ________ of Mississippi, a
desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and _________, will be transformed into
an oasis of _________and justice. I have a ________ that my four children will one day
live in a ________ where they will not be ________ by the _________ of their skin but
by the content of their ________. I have a dream today.
…Let ________ ring from every hill; and every molehill of Mississippi. From ______
Mountainside, let freedom ________. When we let ________ ring, when we let it
ring from every _________ and every hamlet, from every state and every _________, we
will be able to speed up that day when all of ________ children, black men and
_________ men, Jews and _________, Protestants and ________, will be able to join __
______ and sing in the ________ of the old Negro ________, "Free at ________! Free
at last! Thank God _________, we are ________ at last!
Word bank:
free white city freedom meaning sit state oppression color ring
God's Catholics words almighty judged dream truths dream sons
nation character every village Gentiles hands last nation spiritual
state oppression
nation brotherhood
Answers to
worksheet:
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."…I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
…Let freedom ring from every hill; and every molehill of Mississippi. From every Mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every nation, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!
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