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Word-grids

Here are some more word-grids. If you want to make it more difficult try using only adjoining letters. You can go up, down, sideways and diagonally. Can you find the nine-letter word?

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Key Stage 3           Wordswork!

I have a dream

I have a dream: Dr Martin Luther King

This is the climax of a speech delivered by the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King at a civil rights march in Washington on 28 August 1963. It is one of the most powerful and most famous speeches recorded this century.

 

Sentence
So I say to you , my friend, that even through we
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must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in
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the American dream that one day this nation will
rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed -
we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal.
   

I have a dream that one day on the red hills
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of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of
former slave-owners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood.
   

I have a dream that one day, even the state

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of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of
injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and
justice.
   

I have a dream that my four little children

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will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the colour of their skin but by the
content of their character. I have a dream today!
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I have a dream that one day, down in

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Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its
governor having his lips dripping with the words
of interposition and nullification, that one day,
right there in Alabama, little black boys and
black girls will be able to join hands with little
white boys and white girls as sisters and
brothers. I have a dream today!
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I have a dream that one day every valley
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shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be
made low, the rough places shall be made plain,
and the crooked places shall be made straight
and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and
all flesh shall see it together.
   

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go

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back to the South with.
   

With this faith we will be able to

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bear out of the mountain of despair a stone of
hope. With this faith we will be able to transform
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the jangling discord of our nation into a
beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
   

With this faith we will be able to work

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together, to pray together, to struggle together,
to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom
together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will
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be able to sing with new meaning - 'my country
'tis of thee; sweet land of liberty; land where my
farther's died, land of the pilgrim's pride; from every
mountain side, let freedom ring' - and if America is
to be a great nation, this must become true.
   
So freedom ring from the prodigious
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hilltops of New York.

Let freedom ring from the mighty

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mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening
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Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped
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Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous
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slopes of California.
But not only that.
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Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain

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of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of
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Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and
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molehill of mississippi,
from every mountain side, let freedom ring.

Activity 1

  1. Read the speech silently to yourself.
  2. Talk in pairs about how you feel the speech should be read. Practice reading the speech aloud in pairs.
  3. Make a list of five things that you find striking about the speech.
  4. Make a list of three questions you would like to ask about the speech; they might be about the words or the ideas or about Martin Luther King.

Activity 2

  1. There are 24 sentences in the extract. Count the number of words in each sentence. can you comment on the length of the sentences?

Activity 3

  1. There is one more sentence in the speech. How long do you think it is?
  2. Write your own version of the last sentence and rehearse the whole speech.
  3. Compare Martin Luther King's last sentence with your own.

The final sentence of Martin Luther King's speech is as follows:

  Sentence
And when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it
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ring from every village and hamlet, from every  
state and city, we will be able to speed up that  
day when all of God's children - black men and  
white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and  
Protestants - will be able to join hands and to  
sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,  
'Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty,  
we are free at last.'  

 

Wordswork was from North East Lincolnshire's Literacy Team

 

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