Aim

1. To think about whether the rights that we have are worth defending. • To learn more about a man, called Martin Luther King Jr, who defended people’s rights. Aim • …How were you a ‘Good Samaritan’? • What did you do? • How did you feel before you did your ‘Good Samaritan’ act? • How did you feel after you did your ‘Good Samaritan’ act? • How do you think the person who you were a ‘Good Samaritan’ to felt? • By being a ‘Good Samaritan’, what rights from last lesson (look in your books for help!) did you do?

2. Discuss in pairs... What would you do & how would you feel if… …Somebody fire-bombed your house simply because you were trying to help other people? …You felt that nobody respected you – even though you had done nothing wrong? …Somebody tells you that you can’t go to the same school as your best friend because of the colour of your skin? Discuss as a class... • What would you have done? • How would you have felt? • What rights would have been lost if these things had happened to you (look in your books from last lesson to remind you of the rights)? All these things happened to a Christian man called Martin Luther King Jr.

3. Think about... Where? Who? • Martin Luther King Jr lived in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, in the South of the USA. • The South of the USA was where there had been a lot of black slaves in the past. • Name: Martin Luther King Jr • Born in 1929 • His father was a Christian church minister • He was a Christian • He was a black man Martin Luther King Jr • Martin Luther King Jr lived in a time when black & white people were ‘segregated’ (What does ‘segregated’ mean?) • He campaigned, marched & suffered a lot, to try to change the law in America so that black & white people could be treated equally. • He was the leader of a big group of people who campaigned for black people’s rights, they were called ‘The Civil Rights Movement’. What? • As a Christian, Martin Luther King Jr believed that people were children of God & created as equal in God’s image. So, people should not be treated unfairly because of the colour of their skin. Why?

4. Think about... Martin Luther King Jr • Martin Luther King Jr grew up in an America where signs like this were normal… • How do you think this made him feel? • He also understood from a very young age what segregation meant. Watch this trailer for the film ‘HairSpray’, are the black people segregated or integrated? ‘Hairspray’ is set in the same part of America where Martin Luther King Jr was from… www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkzcNF-jlWw So, he campaigned for all people to be treated equally. He committed his life to defending the right: When children are born they are free & should all be treated in the same way. We can see this from this short film about his famous speech, ‘I have a dream…’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AItMg70kg

5. Challenge As a class, produce a timeline showing the main events in Martin Luther King Jr’s life. What? You are working in groups of 3. You will be given an event (or some events) in Martin Luther King Jr’s life to find out more about. How? You need to find out about the event in Martin Luther King’s life that your group has been given. You need to write about the event & find pictures on the internet or illustrate your work. For each event, we need to know the answers to these questions: Who was involved? – What happened? Why did it happen? - Where did it happen? How does it make you feel? You will then need to explain to the class the information that you have found out. How do we work together? Each person in the group must put in their fair share of work. Think about the ‘Fair Play Rules’.

6. How long? After today’s lesson you will have 1 and a half lessons to complete your part of the timeline. You will also need to use homework to work on your part of the timeline. What materials will you have? You will have large coloured paper, pencil crayons, felts, your exercise books & the computers. You can also use anything you bring in from home. You will also have a book called ‘Free at Last: The Story of Martin Luther King’ to help you with your research. Remember when doing research you need to write things in your own words. You can’t just copy from a book or the internet! How will your work be evaluated? We will spend half a lesson presenting our work to the class. We will evaluate our own work. There will also be a reward for the best work.

7. Fair play rules To do well in football you need to play by the ‘Fair Play Rules’. These mean that: All members of the team consider each other. All members of the team play for each other (it’s a team effort!) People don’t foul each other. It’s the team that will do well (or not!) not individual members. The team plays to it’s strengths. All team members work hard for each other. What do the fair play rules mean for us in our classroom today?

8. Chunk the Challenge! In your own words, in the back of your books, write down what you have to do in this challenge. Don’t put any of your own ideas down yet, just stick to writing down what I’ve just told you, in your own words.

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