Millender,
D. (1969). Martin Luther King Jr.: Boy with a dream. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs-Merrill Company, INC.
This
book is a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his life growing up as a
young African America after the slavery was banned. He was named after the
famous Martin Luther who started the Lutheran Church and the Reformation. His
father, Martin Luther King, was a preacher in his own church and started out as
a slave, but had grown as a man and learned to stand up for himself as well as
to portray that behavior to his son. Early on as a child, M.L (Martin Luther
Jr.) he did believe in violence. He thought there was no point in it and it got
people nowhere in their disagreement. He thought that you should reason with a
person, because you thoughts are more powerful than your fists. He was a very
smart kid, and often helped his teachers teach the lower achieving students in
his class. He taught other students about topics important to them, and the
children loved hearing his stories and facts. It discussed much of who he
learned and admired most: his father Martin Luther King and the preacher one
block away, Reverend Borders.
One
of the connections I made with this book was one of his teachers, Miss Lemon.
She taught exactly the way we all should be teaching: with interactive
activities and through texts. She really seemed to love her job and want the
best of her students. She wanted all students to feel comfortable in her
classroom, and the students didn’t seem to mind being in front of the room and
doing a speech for their class over a report that had studied.
There
are so many different ways to teach a lesson that involved this book and this
topic. Even though it is a biography, it read like an interesting story of
events. You could teach about it from a social studies standpoint with cultural
inequalities, literature elements standpoint, or just well-rounded literature of
a famous person.
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