The Memphis Sanitation Workers’
Strike and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
A Lesson Plan for Grades 5-8
By: Katie
Hickey Snyder
AHTC Memphis Trip 2010
Day 1
1. To
activate prior knowledge, students individually fill out the first two
sections of the following graphic organizer http://learningdisabilities.about.com/library/Learningtools/Thoughtjogger.pdf?once=true& Students
leave the last section blank. This will be filled out in the next
procedure.
2. View
the national primary source, AFSCME
documentary “I Am a Man”, about the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike Monument as a
class, using a Smart board, LCD projector, or computer lab.
http://www.afscme.org/about/17418.cfm
3.