Celebrate Black History Month 2016 Skip to main content <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension Search form ReadWorks Celebrate Black History Month 2016 Share now! Print Videos These videos are used with the generous permission of HISTORY® Kindergarten "Who Was Jackie Robinson?" 1st Grade "Martin Luther King, Jr." "Covers" Poetry by Nikki Giovanni 2nd Grade "A Hero in Disguise" with Paired Video: "Mini Bio: Harriet Tubman" Passage Lexile: 710 Video used with the generous permission of HISTORY® "American Heroes" with Paired Video: "Mini Bio: Jackie Robinson" Passage Lexile: 650 Video used with the generous permission of HISTORY® "Great Americans" Lexile: 560 3rd Grade "Maya Angelou" Passage Lexile: 590 "Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad" with Paired Video "Mini Bio: Harriet Tubman" Passage Lexile: 660 Video used with the generous permission of HISTORY® 4th Grade "Walking Tall" Lexile: 770 5th Grade 6th Grade
Standing With Malala: Meet the Teenagers Who Survived the Taliban and Kept Going to School by Jing Fong and Araz Hachadourian On a Tuesday in October 2012, a bus carrying the students of Khushal Girls High School and College in Pakistan’s Swat Valley came to a stop. The girls inside were on their way home from a day of exams. “I was looking outside daydreaming,” recalls Shazia Ramzan, who was 14 years old at the time. “I was talking with my best friend, Sana,” says Ramzan's friend, Kainat Riaz, who was 16. Moments later, Taliban gunmen boarded the bus looking for the girls’ classmate Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old advocate for girls’ education who wrote about the Taliban and education on her blog. In 2007, the Taliban arrived in the Swat Valley—known by locals as the “Switzerland of Pakistan” for its natural beauty—and began ordering the closure of schools, particularly for girls. The October 2012 shooting was just one act of terror used to enforce the ban. After the shooting, Malala was moved to Britain for months of medical treatment. At first, Ramzan and Riaz remained in Swat. YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
I, Too, Sing America Patriotism's a pretty complicated concept. It can mean standing up for your country or criticizing it. If you want to sum up patriotism, you can simply call it "love for one's country." Langston Hughes certainly doesn't think so. Hughes was often considered the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes published "I, Too, Sing America" in 1945, a good ten years or so before the start of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. We started this party talking about patriotism. Patriotism's all about loving your country and being proud to be its citizen, right? In Langston Hughes's case, he knows that by birth he's an American citizen. So Hughes pens this poem, in which he envisions a greater America, a more inclusive America. Freedom and equality.
English Conversation – Human Rights This is the preparation material for an English conversation lesson about human rights. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. Universal human rights are often guaranteed by the law of a country, general principles and other sources of international law. International human rights laws give down obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and freedoms of individuals or groups. Video about Human Rights How did you feel when you watched the video on human rights? Vocabulary Phrasal Verbs & Expressions Conversation Questions What human rights do you know about?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Articles & Videos Skip to main content <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension Search form ReadWorks Dr. Share now! Print This video is used with the generous permission of HISTORY® Articles & Question Sets Note: For read-aloud, it is appropriate to use passages at higher levels than your students' independent reading levels. Kindergarten - 1st Grade "Martin Luther King Jr." 2nd - 4th Grade "An American Leader" Lexile: 810 "A Great Leader" Lexile: 900 5th - 8th Grade "Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.' "The King Holiday" Lexile: 1300Primary Source 9th - 12th Grade "Oct. 14, 1964: King Wins Nobel Peace Prize" Lexile: 1320 This article is used with the generous permission of HISTORY® "Martin Luther King Jr. "10 Things You May Not Know About Martin Luther King Jr." "Selma to Montgomery March"Lexile: 1530This article is used with the generous permission of HISTORY® About ReadWorks
Book Excerpt: My Forbidden Face, by Latifa — When the Taliban took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, in 1997, Latifa was a 16-year-old teenager, listening to Elvis and dreaming of going to college. The Taliban's harsh rule transformed her life for the next four years. Following is an excerpt from her book, My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban — A Young Woman's Story, which she wrote in exile after fleeing the Taliban regime in 2001. Chapter One The White Flag Over the Mosque 9 A.M., September 27, 1996. Someone knocks violently on our door. Until this morning. Papa returns to the kitchen, followed by Farad, our young cousin, who is pale and breathless. "I came...to find out how you were. "No, no one's been here, but we saw the white flag waving over the mosque-Daoud spotted it a few hours ago. This morning, around five o'clock, my young brother Daoud went downstairs as usual to fetch some water from the tap in the courtyard of our building, but came hurrying back up with the basin still empty. "Can you imagine?
Celebrating MLK Day Updated: Jan., 2014 In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here is a collection of New York Times, Learning Network and other materials for teaching and learning about Dr. King, the civil rights movement he led and his legacy. Selected Times Resources Historical Front Pages and Articles “Martin Luther King Wins The Nobel Prize for Peace” Oct. 15, 1962Front Page | Article (PDF)“200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally” Aug. 29, 1963Front Page | Article (PDF) “The Big Parade: On the Way to Montgomery” March 21, 1965Front Page“25,000 Go to Alabama’s Capitol” March 25, 1965Front Page“Martin Luther King is Slain in Memphis” April 4, 1968Front Page | Article (PDF) Multimedia Video Articles and Opinion Pieces Slide Show Important Moments in Black History Times Topics Learning Network Lesson Plans and Resources Text to Text | ‘I Have a Dream’ and ‘The Lasting Power of Dr. Student Crossword Puzzles Other Resources Nobelprize.org The official Nobel Prize biography of Dr.
Making the World a Better Place - Warm Up - Mia Smith Som lärare återanvänder man gamla favorituppgifter, justerar, revider och förbättrar. Men ibland måste man få tänka nytt. Under våren tyckte jag att jag dök på ganska många saker i sociala medier som skulle kunna passa mina elever, om de bara kopplades in i ett sammanhang. Jag hade inget utrymme i planeringen under terminen, men bestämde mig för att börja samla för att göra något av detta till höstterminen. Att samla idéer digitalt Det viktigaste jag gjorde i det här läget var att jag skapade en mapp i Pearltrees där jag kunde samla inspirationen. När jag väl hade skapat denna mapp kunde jag börja samla idéer. Jag insåg snabbt att temat behövde delas upp i olika delteman. Warm up – strategies Vi värmde upp med en kort uppgift om Malala. När eleverna gruppvis hade hittat sina förklaringar och översättningar arbetade vi i klassen med att muntligt förklara orden med andra ord. Ytterligare tips Man kan ju självklart skapa egna ordkort utifrån gloslistor, möjligheterna är oändliga.
Reader Ideas | Teaching the Civil Rights Movement Jeremy M. Lange for The New York TimesThe International Civil Rights Center and Museum opened in 2010 inside a former Woolworth building in Greensboro, N.C. The store was the site of a series of luncheonette “sit-ins” against segregation beginning on Feb. 1, 1960. Go to related article » This month, we asked educators, How Do You Teach the Civil Rights Movement? Many echoed the findings of the Southern Poverty Law Center by writing that this era of history is little taught in their own schools and districts. Just as many educators mentioned the importance of teaching the civil rights movement in the context of African-American history as a whole, since many students bring very little background knowledge to the subject. A comment from John Padula, a Boston middle school teacher, brought together many of the points others raised: I teach grades 6, 7 and 8 in the Boston Public Schools. It’s not too late to add your own thoughts. History, Social Studies, Civics English Language Arts The Arts
Slavery WebEnglish.se A theme page about slavery in America, suitable for intermediate level (A2.2-B1) students, year 8-9, and B1 in Sweden. Related Pages: Black Lives Matter, Modern Slavery, Black History – Civil Rights, Racism, Human Rights Background The Atlantic Slave Trade Visualized in Two Minutes: 10 Million Lives, 20,000 Voyages, Over 315 Years | Open C Not since the sixties and seventies, with the black power movement, flowering of Afrocentric scholarship, and debut of Alex Haley’s Roots, novel and mini-series, has there been so much popular interest in the history of slavery. Warm-up Songs Vocabulary Lesson Plans Reading Listening Viewing Civil War End of Slavery Speaking Worksheets Interactive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Related
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