Dr. King's Speech

This week in literacy we have been doing a close read of the first third of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech". Breaking down the high academic language and deciphering the metaphors has taken days. Feel free to ask your child how Dr. King pulled in history of the Civil War in his speech. Ask why the speech was held at the Lincoln Memorial. In fact, feel free to have him or her tell you what he was saying in his speech in simple, 5th grade terms.