Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream" Lesson Plan

The above video is the full speech given by Martin Luther King Jr.

LAUSD Teachers: The second video above is a shorter version that includes the section of his speech that is in the 9th grade Prentice-Hall anthology. You can assign this for home viewing, because it cannot be opened in the classroom due to LAUSD filtering. Just have students google "VeniceHighBuzz" and they should be able to easily find this page.

To view the Youtube videos in the classroom,  I have included links below, which should lead you to the LAUSD sign in and show allow you to view it in the classroom. To view it without pausing problems, click on "low quality" once you open the video.

Link to Part 2/2 of MLK Jr.'s speech, which includes the section of his speech in Prentice-Hall.

  Link to Full Speech on Youtube

Oprah Youtube videos for "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Youtube videos related to Night by Elie Wiesel
The following videos were created by Oprah Winfrey when she produced a special documentary on the Holocaust, which included collaboration by Elie Wiesel in person.

For teachers with filtering systems: To view them in the classroom, click on the links and go to the Youtube page. This should allow you to then sign in to your filtering system and hopefully view the videos in the classroom. Don't forget to click "low quality" when viewing, to avoid pausing problems.

Oprah and Elie Wiesel Part 1

Oprah and Elie Wiesel Part 2

Oprah and Elie Wiesel Part 3

Oprah and Elie Wiesel Part 4

How It Ends: The Lady or the Tiger Lesson Plan - ESL 4 (Highpoint Level C)

Here are various endings for the short story "The Lady or the Tiger," written by Ms. Zubiri's ESL 4 class, Sept. 2011:

Behind that door was the lady. The man married her, but the man and the princess were sad because they still loved each other. After a few days, the man escaped with the princess and they were happy. But the king was sad because he lost his daughter. After a few months they came back. The king was happy to see his daughter again. Then he accepted the man and the man married the princess.

Celina Valeriano

Suddenly the princess forgot the door that had the tiger and the fair lady. It all went too fast and she turned back to the young man and chose the door with the tiger. The people shattered in tears and the man died.

Elvis Martinez

The young man  saw two big eyes in front of him, then he

saw the tiger jumping on him in the arena.  All the people were watching  how the tiger was  tearing apart the young man. The princess was crying for making the wrong choice, but it was too late to change the decision to kill the young man . 

Damyan Tuchenishki

When the man opened the door that the princess pointed to, a beautiful lady came out of the door. Then the princess got really sad because she wasn’t going to be able to see him again. But when the princess was crying in her bed, the young man knocked on her door and he told her to escape with him to another country. The princess told him ‘’yes." When her father went to see her, she wasn’t there and her father got really sad because he wasn’t going to see his daughter again. And he promised  to never judge a person like he judged the young man again. 

 Abrahan Cortes

He saw the princess’ hand pointing to the right side. And when he opened the right door, he saw the lovely lady. The princess told him where the woman was although she was jealously. The princess was a good woman and she wanted the handsome man happy, because she loved him.

Neyda Reyes

 

When the young man opened the door on the right, the tiger came out. The people started to screaming and yelling because the tiger was going to eat him. The king was sad when the tiger started eating him in front of them. After that the king took the young lady out the door on the left and she saw the tiger eating the young man. She was crying and sad to watch that horrible death.

Christopher Zapata

Here is the original short story:


The Lady or the Tiger
Written by Frank Stockton


Long ago, in very olden times, there lived a powerful king.  Some of his ideas were progressive.  But others caused people to suffer.
One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice.  Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance.  When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena.
All the people would gather in this building.  The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair.  He gave a sign.  A door under him opened.  The accused person stepped out into the arena.  Directly opposite the king were two doors.  They were side by side, exactly alike.  The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them.  He could open whichever door he pleased. 
 If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land.  The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt.  The case of the suspect was thus decided. 
Iron bells rang sadly.  Great cries went up from the paid mourners.  And the people, with heads hanging low and sad hearts, slowly made their way home.  They mourned greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have died this way.
But, if the accused opened the other door, there came forth from it a woman, chosen especially for the person.  To this lady he was immediately married, in honor of his innocence. It was not a problem that he might already have a wife and family, or that he might have chosen to marry another woman.  The king permitted nothing to interfere with his great method of punishment and reward.

The Rest of the Story: The Lady or the Tiger

Another version of The Lady or the Tiger

Read the Top Educational Articles Each Day

Teachers:
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Persuasive Essays by Ms. Zubiri's Period 5 English class - December 2010

                                          Why Is Headgear an Issue at Venice High?
                                                                By Edgar Gutierrez

        Wearing hats, beanies, or any type of headgear shouldn’t be an issue at Venice High School. Staff assumes that hats are gang-related, but not all students are related to gangs. Just because a student wears a specific hat doesn’t mean they are in a gang.
    People believe this issue relates to gangs for the reason that members wear these type of  caps. It’s true that certain gangs do wear certain hats, but it’s not right to judge a person by the way they dress. Most of the students at Venice High don’t like the fact they get their hats taken away and are made to bring their parents to pick up the hat. In the winter season many students get cold and decide to wear beanies. Same with the summer, many students wear baseball caps for prevent sun burns. Staff should be less strict about this hat issue and more strict on other problems like drugs, alcohol, bullying, and violence.
    Most of Venice High School fights are started by gangs not by hats. Wearing hats or any headwear doesn’t mean you gang-related. This rule should change and only be applied to those that are gang-related. Many students would agree on banning this rule, but its up to the school board, and district.
                                                                                          

                                             More Students Should Graduate from High School
                                                                By Yadira Castaneda
                               The Los Angeles Unified School District should make sure that more students are graduating from high school.

A View of Standardized Testing by a Test Scorer

Teacher Dennis Danziger passed along this eye-opening article that starts like this:

Standardized testing has become central to education policy in the United States. After dramatically expanding in the wake of the No Child Left Behind Act, testing has been further enshrined by the Obama administration’s $3.4 billion “Race to the Top” grants. Given the ongoing debate over these policies, it might be useful to hear about the experiences of a hidden sector of the education workforce: those of us who make our living scoring these tests. Our viewpoint is instructive, as it reveals the many contradictions and absurdities built into a test-scoring system run by for-profit companies and beholden to school administrators and government officials with a stake in producing inflated numbers.

 

Read the rest of it on the website Truthout: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer 

Posted Wednesday 01 December 2010

by: Dan DiMaggio 

Making a Sports Video

This lesson will address:
Calif. English Language-Arts Standard L&S # 2.4:
Deliver multimedia presentations:

• a. Combine text, images and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMS, online information, television, videos and electronic media-generated images.
• b. Select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation
• c. Use the selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring it for quality.
• d. Test the audience’s response and revise the presentation accordingly.

Goal: In this lesson, journalism students will create a 1-minute video of a sports game to be placed on the school’s newspaper website.