Martin Luther King Jr. Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #5

Read Aloud

Performance Standard: MMSIC.7 – Evaluating music and music performances

MMSIC.8 – Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

MMSIC.9 – Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Objectives: Identify and describe relationships between music, dance arts, theatre arts, and visual arts.

Demonstrate literacy skills through reading and discussing musical settings of varied literature.

Reflect on the nature of performance in music and in related arts through discussion and writing.

Essential Question: How did the Civil Rights era influence the music of this period of time?

Supplies: Martin’s Big Words

By: Doreen Rappaport

                                                                             Music CD

Vocabulary Worksheet

1. The students will work in pairs and develop their own definitions for the new vocabulary words.

2. The students will listen to the book as it is read. Pictures will be shown after reading each page.

3. After reading the book, the teacher will read the author’s notes adding more factual information to the reading of the text.

4. Selected students are chosen to read their definitions to the class. The class chooses the correct words for the definitions that are given. Corrections are made in analysis of the text.

5. Vocabulary: Hymns; peace; freedom; strike; protest; and convinced

Extension activity: Students will listen to “Free at Last” based on the speech “I have a Dream”. Students will write a comparison of the spiritual and the speech.

The next time I do this lesson I will use it with sixth graders. The text of the book is too juvenile for 7^th grade students.