Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Celebrated on the third Monday in January, Martin Luther King Day is a national holiday that honors the United States’ most famous civil-rights activist.
Spark your thinking!
1. Set up your social studies mini spark recording page: #33: Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Watch the following video.
- Start the video.
- When you hear a date or a number mentioned, pause the video.
- Write down the date or number.
- Include a brief explanation of what it means.
- Resume the video when you are ready.
3. The Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, is now the National Civil Rights Museum. Click on the video below to take a virtual tour of this museum. While watching the narrator talks about events and there is also information written on the screen. Pause the video as needed. Write one paragraph for each of outlined events: the Montgomery bus boycott, the student sit ins, and the Memphis sanitation strike.
4. Watch this short video.
What small act of kindness or act of service can you do to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.?
5. Share your social studies mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.