Students celebrate MLK day with lessons geared towards civil rights

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While public school students in Duluth and most larger cities in America will have the day off because of Martin Luther King day, Lake Superior School District students will be in school on Monday, Jan. 16, as part of their regular four-day school week.

But teachers are planning to incorporate learning about the civil rights leader into their lesson plans for that day, like Carl Freund who is showing his class Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Students will write an assignment based on it.

Two Harbors High School choir director Nancy MacGibbon’s classes will be singing music from the Civil Rights movement and talking about the connection between the movement and its music. Other teachers like those at Minnehaha Elementary will be talking to their students about Dr. King’s contributions to American society in class.

Sydney Ross, a ninth-grader at Two Harbors High School, said that Martin Luther King Day is a good reminder to learn more. “It’s a day to remember what he did,” she said.

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