11th Grade Martin Luther King Day Cultural Activities

ESL MLK Jr Day - Civil Rights - ELL Activities - Pear Deck - Secondary

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

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

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Toby W. wrote, “Great resource and came in handy. I plan on using this as a base tool.”


This unit will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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