11th Grade Martin Luther King Day Resources

A Celebration of Black Geographers & Their Accomplishments!

Geography seeks to study our planet and tell the stories of the people who inhabit it. But what stories are told? And who is chosen to tell them? Throughout history, often Black geographers were not given credit for their explorations and discoveries. This is a great lesson for geography for Black History Month.

1492: Among the crew on the Santa Maria during Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas is Pedro Alonzo Nino, a black man. Africans also accompany Ponce de Leon, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Soto, and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in the early 16th century and it is said they helped with the discoveries.

This lesson brings to light and gives credit to 14 Blacks who were geographical explorers throughout history. Students also have the option to choose to research a past or present geographer outside of those specific to this lesson, which gives them student autonomy and ownership of their learning..

The learner will:

• Gain a greater understanding of Black geographers / explores contributions and role in history.
• Analyze how Black explorers impacted the occupations in geography.
• Gain an understanding of how unnoticed black geographers aided in creating a passageway for following Black generations to appreciate geography.
• Understanding how the Black populations have impacted and continue to impact geography.

This lesson includes:

• Suggested videos for an introduction (Not required)
• Detailed-teacher instructions including preparation, materials needed, procedures, and game instructions.
• Group or Individual Activity
• Research guide
• Exit cards

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These three differentiated lesson plans center around the beautifully powerful poems, "Still I Rise," "A Dream Deferred," and "Caged Bird." Each plan is meticulously explained using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. Students will analyze the figurative language within the poems and respond to the powerful messages they evoke through independent work, paired activities, and full class discussion. Lesson plans and accompanying materials strive to encourage students to interact deeply with some of the most breathtaking works of American poetry ever written. No teacher preparation is necessary for any of these lesson plans.

Bundled Product Includes:

• 3 Full lesson plans with warm-up, explanation, application, synthesis, and differentiated extension activities
• Comprehensive student packets for each poem
• Copies of each poem

Although these lesson plans are aligned to eighth grade Common Core standards, they can be differentiated to be appropriate for a middle or high school setting.

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CIVIL RIGHTS NONFICTION Google Slide BUNDLE includes 3 texts :

"I Have A Dream" speech by Dr. ML King

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. ML King

"Delivering Justice: WW Law and the Fight for Civil Rights" by Jim Haskins

These 3 introductory Google Slide lessons provide digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Historical facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the text details. Lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, graphic organizers and assessments.

*PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the Google Slide lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

EACH GOOGLE SLIDE CONTAINS:

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** (look at individual lesson for vocabulary) Our Google Slide lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: Worksheets, word walls, interactive notebooks

Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.

This bundle is also available in PowerPoint.

Enjoy!

-from Kiwious About Vocab!

These 2 Google Slide lessons provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for THE NONFICTION TEXTS BY Martin Luther King Jr; I HAVE A DREAM AND LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL

PDF links to text included

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms

EACH Google Slide:

• Opening slide

-genre, author photo and short bio.

• 2 setting slides

-Location photos with map

-Time period photos with live link to period music clip!

• Vibrant Vocab slides(Look at individual lessons for vocabulary)

-photo appearing without word for inference making

-vocab word which 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word

-part of speech

-concise definition

**•Differentiated Worksheet-**used as a pretest, posttest, or practice

• Quizlet link

• Part of speech sort

*Word connotation discussion slide

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion/prediction

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource ·

* Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

This lesson is also available in PowerPoint.

These 2 PowerPoint lessons provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for THE NONFICtION TEXTS BY Martin Luther King Jr; I HAVE A DREAM AND LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL

PDF links to text included

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms

EACH POWERPOINT:
• Opening slide
-genre, author photo and short bio.

• 2 setting slides
-Location photos with map
-Time period photos with live link to period music clip!

• Vibrant Vocab slides
-photo appearing without word for inference making
-vocab word which 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word
-part of speech
-concise definition

• Differentiated Worksheet-used as a pretest, posttest, or practice
• Quizlet link
• Part of speech sort
*Word connotation discussion slide

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion/prediction
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

This bundle is also available in Google Slides.

Enjoy -from Kiwious About Vocab!

Do you want to give your Secondary ESL students an engaging resource to teach them about Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement_?_ The resource comes with plenty of activities to work on developing and expanding on skills. Students will learn about the 1950s and what that looked like in the United States.

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

• 68 Google/Pear Deck Slides about the Civil Rights Movement, MLK, and the 1950's time period
• 10 Google slides for students with additional vocabulary work (great for pairs, independent work, or with a sub!)
• Engaging visuals and themes for secondary students
• Tons of language supports like frames, sentence starters, and vocabulary to support multilingual learners
• Lots of writing and interactive slides to support literacy
• Topics like: Selma to Montgomery March, Greensboro sit in, Little Rock 9, roles for men, women, and children in the 1950's, Brown vs. Board of Education + more!
• Printable Civil Rights timeline for students to complete with a guided video
• Printable timeline of MLKs speeches
• Printable vocabulary cards for small group and Entering/Emerging students
• Engaging videos that showcase the time period and events
• Printable group poster
• Two virtual field trips: MLK Memorial in DC & Civil Rights Museum

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Steve A. wrote, “Very engaging resource for my high school students. They loved the slides and I was impressed how much quality writing the students did with this Pear Deck activity. Thanks!”

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