Infonews n°322 from 13/01/2008
Online Pages of links to documents and activities
Worksheet and interactive timeline
Legacy : in MLK's footstep
Slideshows
Videos
Songs
Online activities
Bring Africa to the classroom
Online Pages of links to documents and activities
The references are the pages from Michèle Henry and the team from ac-Paris:
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/mlk.htm
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/index.php#act
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/civilrights.php
I updated my pages on my site:
http://perso.numericable.fr/~dreymondch46/infonews/themes/martinlutherking.htm
and you will find an update on Infonews n°264 and
Here are some new or updated sites I found while updating my pages:
Worksheet and interactive timeline
Time for Kids offers an excellent worksheet, ready to use and illustrated
(level A2-). There is a timeline and questions ( only the first page of the
document is about MLK)
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060113_wr1.pdf
This document goes with "the Fight for Rights"
from Time for Kids : a game (quiz) about black American's fight for their rights,
with nice photos and a timeline to find the answers (open both windows)
The game
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/bhm/0,8805,97501,00.html
The timeline for the fight for rights, from then till now, with a text and
a picture describing what happened at each step
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/bhm/0,8805,97502,00.html
Legacy : in MLK's footstep
"As the nation prepares for Martin Luther King Day, MEGAN SCOTT reflects
on eight people embodying Kings spirit who were lost in the past year, from
Coretta Scott King and Ed Bradley to James Brown and Lou Rawls. She considers
their greatness and the legacy they left behind, for the black community and
for all America. "
http://hamptonroads.com/node/207751
[ see the interactive with videos without script of several African Americans
who died in 2006, and a short text.]
Slideshows
The Washington Rally. "A slideshow with audio for The Sixties class".
Interesting beginning, told by an old man who was there. (7 years after Rosa
parks and three years after the lunch counter protests). Soundtrack : "We
shall overcome". Lots of written things in the slides, but interesting.
I would use it for students level B1 from the beginning until MLK's speech
at 02:20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs-CP6HJlA
pictures of violence against Black people with Billy Holidays' "strange
fruit" and "If I Had a Hammer" as sound track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXBvLbYqVMA
A school assignment about the end of racism and discrimination, without words,
with pictures of violence and them portraits of people who acted. It can raise
students' awareness and trigger their speech. it would be a good starting point
for B1/B2 students who already know a lot about this issue that they have studied
each year for 5 or 7 years. They can first share what they know ( for example
: Jim Crow laws, KKK, Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela), then start
researching about people they have never heard about like perhaps Marcus Garvey,
Booker T Washington, Emmett Till, Desmond Tutu and Trevor Huddleston. There
is also a young woman and a sportsman at the end that they may recognise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_638plRQWQ
Videos
history of the civil rights movement in 01:18, with an easy to understand
soundtrack level A2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC62HmApl0g
Civil Rights movement 1955-1965 : pictures and a comment that can be used for
global comprehension with students level A1, or for detailled comprehension
for students level A2 ( to discover despite?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxEkj40bRII
Songs
remember to watch carefully to videos from youtube that you select for your
students. I found on youtube a video called "civil rights video" with
the comment : "montage of civil rights pic". It seems a useful documents
because the words appear on the screen, with pictures of the civil rights movement
and the words are "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free". But
there is a picture of MLK at a communist training meeting which makes me uncomfortable.
The author of the video says he is a 44 year old man from Aruba, a West Indies
island. Yet, I would use this document with caution.
You will find the words of Strange fruit sung by Nina Simone in this video
but with hard pictures that can shock some students (but the lyrics in themselves
are rather shocking too...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsU01lfzLU
*** But if you are looking for simpler and happier songs, go to Michèle Henry's
page for MLK songs for lower secondary school:
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/mlk2.htm#song
Online activities
About.com offers us several links to online activities such as webquests
and role playing games.
http://712educators.about.com/od/afamonline/AfricanAmerican_History_Online_Activities.htm
Bring Africa to the classroom
A teacher has put online lots of simple activities and recipes to bring Africa
alive through folktales "collected by the author while serving as a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa".
http://www.phillipmartin.info/liberia/homepage.htm
See the lessons from "deep in the bush where teachers rarely go"
http://www.phillipmartin.info/liberia/text_teacher_lesson_cover.htm
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