Web Quest Lesson Plan

Introduction
Students have explored the topic of An Era of Protest. In this lesson, they will read speeches and letters written by Martin Luther King Jr. and song lyrics by folk singer Woody Guthrie. After exploring two Web sites, students will write a speech, song, or poem to express how they feel about an injustice or inequality and to inspire others to work for change.

Lesson Description
Students will read selected speeches and Letters of Martin Luther King Jr. found on the site http://members.aol.com/klove01/martinsp.htm, and lyrics from songs by Woody Guthrie http://www.woodyguthrie.org/. Then students will choose an inequality or an injustice that they feel strongly about and would like to see changed, and will write a speech, song, or poem to express how they feel and to inspire others to work for this change.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will use the Internet as a resource to get information.
2. Students will explore different ways in which people have expressed their ideas and worked for change.
3. Students will write a speech, song, or poem about an inequality or injustice they feel strongly about.

Student Web Activity Sample Answer
The Latch-Key generation
that was what we were known as—
but really we were the forgotten children
who were lost in the shuffle of working and paying the bills.

And people wonder why we are
the way we are
and lack
what we lack.

Gifts purchased for love lost,
time not spent,
bedtime stories not read,
baseball games missed.

I don’t care about keeping up with Joneses—
I don’t even know who they are!
My needs are simple but require too much sacrifice—
all I want is you.