MLK's+Dream

vI HAVE A DREAM August 28, 1963
 * It’s been called the greatest speech in history – period. The words that Martin Luther King Jr. exclaimed in the nation’s capital in August of 1963 still ring in the ears of Americans. But what exactly did he actually say? What was his dream? Listen to the excerpts from Dr. King’s speech and summarize and illustrate each on the Power Point file. **

Click on the [|Dream template.ppt] with your group, enter your first names, and be prepared to analyze the words of King. For each segment (8 total), you will be summarizing it in your own words and selecting images (clip art, not historic) to illustrated the main ideas of what King was conveying on that hot summer day.

Once you are done, you will be embedding your illustrated "Dream" speech into your online notebook on a new page. To do so, you have a few options ...
 * Upload the finished file to your Google docs account, save it, and then get the embed code using "Share" on the top right of the screen.
 * Upload the file to voicethread ([], and you will want to start an account), save it as a voicethread, make it "public" and embed it.
 * Use a PowerPoint to flash converter online, save the file as an .swf file, and upload it to your wiki.

Once you have finished uploading it, copy and paste the following exercises onto your "Dream" page and complete them using the resources provided.

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KING

** Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] **. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?**  Because it got rid of hypocrisy that americans have been living under for years. This hypocrisy created tension amongst everyone in the nation. The hypocrisy could be summarized as, 'All men are created equal...except blacks.' MLK helped the nation get rid of hypocrisy ** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes he would be upset because people have taken his most famous quote and used it for purposes he would not have approved of.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, because the way he was successful in very difficult situation, which meant that probably few other people could have been as successful. The person would have needed lots of luck and good timing to get done what MLK had done. The author said, "Had he and the blacks and whites who marched beside him failed, vast regions of the U.S. would have remained morally indistinguishable from South Africa under apartheid, with terrible consequences for America's standing among nations."