Reply To: Martin Luther King Jr. Day – ok to teach?

Thanks for all the replies!

Here is what happened:

I had to get approval from the principal, and she said that I could only spend 10 minutes on it.

I spent 30.

I prepared a lesson with a short fact sheet on his life, spoke about the history of segregation and what he did, asked the girls why they thought he is a hero and discussed their responses.

Then, I selected a few sections of his “I Have a Dream Speech,” and discussed new vocabulary words from there, and also important terms concerning black history. Then the girls followed along as I played a recording of the actual speech.

After that we discussed what this all means to us as Jews, and how we have to be careful not to judge someone by what they look like, rather by their “insides.”

BH, I think it went over well.