week 12, November 18-22

1. FREE RICE.COM
2. review last week's class 
3. Martin Luther King, Jr. "March on Washington" speech reading activity
• In your groups from last week, review the key words that you decided on.
• In your groups, create a summary sentence (or two) using all the key words that you chose.
• By yourself, create a summary (a sentence or two) in your own words.  What is this passage about?  What is Martin Luther King, Jr. trying to say?
4. Choose a problem.
5. As a class we will work on the analyze portion of the worksheet.

Students will

• make connections to the reading through their written responses.
• summarize the reading.

week 11, November 11-15

1. review last week's class 
2. Class meeting - "I want to know someone who..."
3. Martin Luther King, Jr. "March on Washington" speech reading activity
• In your groups from last week, review the key words that you decided on.
• In your groups, create a summary sentence (or two) using all the key words that you chose.
• By yourself, create a summary (a sentence or two) in your own words.  What is this passage about?  What is Martin Luther King, Jr. trying to say?
4. Choose a problem.
5. As a class we will work on the analyze portion of the worksheet.

Students will

• make connections to the reading through their written responses.
• summarize the reading.
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week 10 - November 4 - 8

1. review Sneetches (6th) or FOR club (7th, 8th)
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. "March on Washington" speech reading activity
• worksheet
• Listen to Mrs. Rose read the passage while you underline words that you think are important.
• Get into small groups, work through words you don't understand.  Look up words that you cannot figure out together.  (Dictionary.com)
• Read quietly to yourself and see if your key words have changed.
• Listen to Martin Luther King Jr. read the speech.  Do your key words change?
• Choose 9-11 key words. (number 1)
• In your groups, write a summary sentence using all your key words. (number 2)
3. CLASS MEETING - "I want to know someone who..."

week 9 - 7th & 8th

1. Video on Rachel's Challenge
2. What does a FOR club mean?
3. Thank-you letters

Week 9 - 6th

Sneetches video

1. What does this story tell us about respect?
2. What does this story tell us about responsibility?
3. What does this story tell us about kindness?
4. How does it relate to leadership?

week 8 - even more VISION

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Students will be able to discuss vision as it relates to leadership.

1. On a piece of paper - What are the needs of our community?  How do you think you can help make those changes?
2. Class meeting - Discuss the answers to your questions.  Did anyone complete last weeks challenge?
3. Reading activity - "I have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Read silently by yourself.
• Listen to Mrs. Rose read the selection.
• Read the selection in your groups.
• What are the keywords? (small groups, then the whole class)
• Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. read this.
• Do the keywords change?
• In your groups, come up with a sentence using all the key words that summarizes this reading.
• In your own words, come up with a sentence that 
4. Writing activity - "I have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.

week 7 - vision continued

Vision

Students will be able to discuss vision as it relates to leadership.

1. Vision presentation
2. #26 Acts of Kindness
3. class meeting
4. worksheet