Tomorrow marks an historical event: the swearing in of the 1st African-American as President of the United States.Barack Obama wouldn't be where he is today if it went not for individuals like Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other civil rights folks. The Civil Rights Movement worked hard - blood, sweat, and tears - for the rights of African-Americans in our nation.
On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, we will be seeing the fruits of that labor with the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States.
In honor of MLK Day and the Inauguration, here are a few lesson plan/activities teachers can use in their classroom. I mixed it up with K-12 activities.
The city of Philadelphia provided this great site for their teachers (PDF files):
Jointly Produced by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) (PDF Files)
Education World does a nice job with some lessons on MLK.
Teachable Moments web site is amazing; they have some great stuff on here.
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PS: My apologies for the messy appearance; blogger wasn't being nice to me. :-)
3 comments:
Tomorrow will be a historical day, that's for sure. No matter how anyone voted, it will be a treasure to have the pictures and the experience. What a day it will be.
i understand the significance of all this... but do you know what could be done with all the money that is being spent for this? ugh!!!!
or what about all the money the candidates raised during the election?
i know lots of things in just IL that are being closed due to budget cuts... :-(
Sometimes Blogger is just a royal pain in the you-know-where! Your links may be ugly, but they work just fine. Thanks!
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