It Starts With Me! Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan
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About the Creator
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This lesson was submitted to the MDE by Ms. Keiryn Ajayi-Obe, the Supervisor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Port Huron Schools. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Assembly started years ago as a partnership between the local NAACP and Port Huron Schools. It has become a yearly, intergenerational, and cherished tradition at every elementary school in the district.
Ms. Ajayi-Obe encourages other educators to reach out to their local branches of the NAACP to create partnerships and powerful events centering Black community members and experiences.
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Description
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This lesson helps students become positive change agents in their own lives, community, and the world. The lesson consists of a read aloud, discussion, and art-based extension activity.
Originally designed as a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Assembly, this lesson plan could be used any day.
In Port Huron Schools, community members and elders led the assembly as written in addition to sharing their experiences with elementary students. As mentioned above, generations of students have experienced the NAACP-organized Martin Luther King, Jr. Day assemblies, and they are an event students, educators, and the community look forward to.
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Language
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English
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Content Standards
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K – C5.0.1 Describe situations in which they demonstrated self-discipline and
individual responsibility.
K – P4.2.2 Participate in projects to help or inform others.
1 – C5.0.2 Explain important rights and how, when, and where members of American society demonstrate their responsibilities by actively participating in civic life.
1 – P4.2.1 Develop and implement an action plan to address or inform others
about a school issue.
1 – P4.2.2 Participate in projects to help or inform others.
2 – C5.0.2 Distinguish between personal and civic responsibilities and explain why they are important in community life.
2 – P4.2.2 Participate in projects to help or inform others.
3 – P3.1.1 Identify public issues in Michigan that influence the daily lives of its citizens.
3 – P4.2.2 Participate in projects to help or inform others.
4 – C5.0.2 Explain rights of citizenship, why rights have limits, and the relationships between rights and responsibilities.
4 – C5.0.3 Describe ways in which people can work together to promote the values and principles of American democracy.
4 – P4.2.2 Participate in projects to help or inform others.
5 – P4.2.1 Develop and implement an action plan and know how, when, and
where to address or inform others about a public issue.
5 – P4.2.2 Participate in projects to help or inform others.
