January 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day--No School January 22: Today we had the Hero and the Crown kick-off assembly with the entire seventh grade. We will be reading this book out of class in mid-March. January 23: Today we read Chapters 27-28 in Touching Spirit Bear and played Stump the Teacher. January 24: Today we began talking about segregation and civil right in regards to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. We completed an anticipatory activity in which half of the students received stars and half did not. Those who had stars could play games while those who did not had to write in the dictionary. This illustrated the segregation and inequality between the races during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. January 25: Today we completed a jigsaw activity about Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights movement and the March on Washington.
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