Melissa Smuda

September 22nd 2017

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Digital Lesson Project

I chose to create my Digital Lesson Project about Martin Luther King Jr. This lesson is
developed for fourth grade students who are struggling learners and on-target learners. Civil
Rights is a required unit at my school and we start every year learning about Martin Luther King
Jr and reading his biography I Have A Dream. I created two versions of this lesson. The first
version, also known as group 1 is for struggling learners. The lesson starts with a pre-test, which
is the same as the on-target students since this is just for me to gather information about what the
students already know about Martin Luther King Jr. The video of his famous I Have A Dream
speech for group 1 is shorter than the video for group 2 (on-target learners). The activity after the
video is scaffolded for the students in group 1 to give them guidelines of the expectations. The
article and questions are differentiated for their reading level which is lower than a fourth grade
level (second to third grade level). The second lesson, also known as group 2 is for the on-target
learners. The students take the pre-test about MLK. Then, they watch his famous I Have A
Dream full speech and then the activity after is the same concept but more open-ended than the
activity for group 1. The article and questions are at a fourth grade level to make sure the
students are completing work at their independent level.

Links to digital lessons on blendspace (testeach):

Struggling learners (group 1) -
https://www.tes.com/lessons/CW9K2t6C4Tff5g/martin-luther-king-jr-group-1
On-target learners (group 2) -
https://www.tes.com/lessons/gqaorSHeUiEB0A/martin-luther-king-jr-group-2

Reference List:

(n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr/videos

I Have A Dream Martin Luther King Jr with Lyrics. (2016, January 21). Retrieved September
22, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qm7YYYsWs
X. (2013, January 21). Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 (Full
Speech). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0yP4aLyq1g&feature=youtu.be

Martin Luther King, Jr. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/famoushistoricalfigures/martinlutherkingjr/

MLK review game. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from

https://www.superteachertools.us/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=493249
#.WcWqpUt97rc

Sherwood, C. (n.d.). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Retrieved September 22, 2017, from
https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/reading-comp/3rd-martin-luther-king_WMFNW
.pdf?up=1466611200

Sherwood, C. (n.d.). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Retrieved September 22, 2017, from
https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/reading-comp/5th-martin-luther-king_WMFNZ.
pdf?up=1466611200