I Have a Dream Speech Reader's Theatre: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
10-page Reader's Theatre Script of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech including a foreword.
It has been written with 20 parts but can be adjusted.
MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is the perfect opportunity to actively engage your students in a history lesson. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of America's finest orators of all time. Use his speech as a catalyst for students to work on their presentation skills.
Included in the packet are two essay prompts with writing pages. Specific instructions and notes for Teachers are also included.
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My students really loved this activity, and it was easy to assign parts to students according to their reading level! Everyone got to participate and they really liked the repeated practice of reading it over the course of several reading intervention classes, to work on fluency and vocal expression. At the end of the year when I asked students to reflect on what activities they particularly enjoyed in interventions all the students agreed that this was something they really liked and wanted more for the next year!
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This was a really beautiful script and was organized nicely. It almost seemed a bit on the younger side (I used with 7th and 8th graders), but I made it work. Would work REALLY well at the elementary level.
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