Famous American Series: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Famous American SeriesAbraham Lincoln
andMartin Luther King Jr.
Designed for 2nd Graders at the Wolcott School
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Objectives

• Stregthen Language Arts Skills
• -reading comprehension
• -writing skills
• Develop a Sense of American History
• -gain knowledge of the lives of Abraham Lincoln
  and
  
• Martin Luther King Jr. and an understanding of
  the issues of
  
• their times
• -apply knowledge of the perspective time periods
  in the
  
• letters they will write to Booker T. Washington
  and a student in
  
• the 1960s
• -compare and contrast the time periods and the
  race
  
• relations within the periods

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Day One ActivitiesAbraham Lincoln

• KWL Chart
• -fill out what they know column individually
• -fill out what they want to know column as
• a class
• Break Students into Pairs (mixing higher and
  lower abilities)
  
• -read Addler Biography
• -answer the given questions on the book
• Go Over Questions as a Class
• Fill in What You Learned Column for Homework

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Day Two Activites Slavery

• Go over what they learned column as a class
• As a class read excerpts from Booker T.
  Washingtons
  
• Up From Slavery chapter one
• Class discussion of excerpt and topic of slavery
• Writing Assignment
• -write a letter to Booker T. Washington

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Day Three ActivitiesMartin Luther King Jr.

• Share letters
• Transition
• KWL Chart
• Separate students into different pairs, again
  mixed ability
  
• -read Addler biography of King and answer
  questions
  
• Review questions as a class
• What you learned column for homework

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Day FourActivitiesSegregation and Civil Rights

• Review what you learned column
• Segregation Experiment
• -separate children by eye color for the day
• Link classroom segregation experiment to the real
  world
  
• Read Kings I Have a Dream speech
• -reinforce Kings goal to end segregation and
  promote
  
• equality
• Writing Assignment
• -write a letter to a student living in the 1960s

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Day Five ActivitiesComparison of Lincoln and
King

• Share letters
• Compare Lincoln and King as a class
• Writing Assignment
• -what is similar and what is different about
  Lincolns
  
• time period of civil war/slavery and Kings time
  period of
  
• segregation/civil rights

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Linkage/Evaluation

• Worksheets and Writing Assignments
• -worksheets prove they have an understanding of
  
  
• biographical information
• -letters show an understanding of slavery
• and segregation
• -comparison assignment shows comprehension
• of the unit as a whole