January Bulletin Board Ideas - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream..."

Access the American Rhetoric web site and allow students to listen to Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech. Here is the text for the speech. Depending on the age of your students, you may also need to do some additional learning. (You can visit Enchanted Learning for some great resources.)

After students have listened to the speech and done any other work you have asked, they write about their own dream. This writing can be as simple or detailed as you wish. You may want students to do their initial writing on a piece of draft paper.

When students have completed their writing, give them a copy of one of the clouds below. They will then copy their dream onto it, cut it out, and add it to the bulletin board.

You can add your own white clouds and images or photos of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the display.

EXTENSION:
You may want to have students create an illustration to accompany their dream cloud.

Blank Cloud	Lined Cloud	Unlined Cloud

(Each of the cloud patterns are a PDF file. Simply click on each to get the printable version.)

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