12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 11, 2017
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 5
Make your celebration of
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
“a day on, not a day off.” This
year, thousands of people will
do just that by volunteering.
What if this news story were true? Are the schools
in Spottville treating all children equally?
Use the words in the word list
to complete this news article.
Dottie and lots of kids from her school are speaking out against
the Freckle Rule. Use the code to see what their signs say.
100 Hours of Service
Longmont, Colo. – Julie Kraus, a
___________ at Longmont High
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School, is working to _________
a few of her own volunteer hours
into 10,000 __________ of
community service.
Kraus ____________ a club with
100 students at her school who
each ____________ to volunteer
100 hours by the _______ of the
school year. When 100 students
volunteer 100 hours, that
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_________ 10,000 hours of
his story may seem a bit silly. Sadly, there
is some truth to it. For many years, groups
of people in the United States were treated
differently just because of the way they looked.
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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow written directions.
Did Dottie and her friends get rid of the Freckle
Rule? To find out, color the spaces with two
dots RED and the squares with one dot BLUE.
Dr. Martin Luther King knew what it was
like to be discriminated against. He had
been called names and told he could not do
all of things other people could do. It wasn’t
because of freckles that Dr. King had these
problems. It was because his skin was black.
Each year on his birthday,
Americans remember
this man who believed
the dream of equality and
freedom should ring true
for all.
Standards Link: Visual discrimination: Follow written directions.
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Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
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This week’s word:
VOLUNTEER
The verb to volunteer
means to work or help
someone for no pay.
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognizing identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Is the Dream Alive?
The fourth grade students
volunteer to read to the
kindergarten students.
Try to use the word
volunteer in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Leadership
Has Martin Luther King’s dream come
true? Look through the newspaper for
examples that show the dream is alive. Do
you see examples that show that his dream
still isn’t alive for all people?
ANSWER: Because their horQVGRQҋWwork.
Standards Link: History/Social Science: Students recognize the forms of diversity in
their school and community and the benefits and challenges of a diverse population.
Complete the grid by using all the letters
in the word DONATE in each vertical
and horizontal row. Each letter should
only be used once in each row. Some
spaces have been filled in for you.
Standards Link: History:
Students understand the
rights of citizenship.
Standards Link: Follow simple directions.
fter years of struggle,
the Civil Rights
Act made discrimination
against the law. However,
Dr. King knew it would
take more than a law to
change people’s hearts
and minds. He continued
to teach people that
discrimination was unfair.
Find the two bells that
are exactly the same.
Standards Link: Civics: Understand the
importance of volunteering as a characteristic
of American society.
Look through
the newspaper
for pictures and
stories that show
the freedoms
Americans enjoy.
Cut these out
and make a
poster called:
“The Spirit of
Freedom—The
Spirit of America!”
In the 1950s and 60s, many Americans,
black and white, spoke out and even fought
against unfair laws that discriminated
against black people. Dr. King was one of
the leaders of this struggle called the Civil
Rights movement.
Standards Link: History: Students understand the importance
of individual action and character.
community _______________.
What are the qualities of
a good leader? Who do
you know that is a good
leader? Why do you
think of that person?
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