I have a dream! Today was all about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Danny did not remember him from our study last year. We began with a Brain Pop Jr. learning video about him. We learned about the concepts of segregation, equal rights, sit-ins, and peaceful protests. I paused the video throughout to support the material with simplification and expanded language for this complex and delicate topic. We saw how Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on the bus and Dr. King gave a powerful speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. We enjoyed watching a portion of a recording of the famous speech. We then completed a fill in the blank passage about Dr. King, in which Danny used a word bank to provide the missing key words. Danny and I then worked on putting 10 words into ABC order. Danny really got into this after he figured out how it was done. I gave him a visual support of the alphabet and we worked through the alphabet and words together. As he found each word, I read it and reiterated how it was related to Martin Luther King, Jr. These included words such as freedom, rights, leader, and peace. Finally, we watched a reading of The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss. In this story, the Sneetches with stars on their bellies are snobs and segregate themselves from those without stars on their bellies. Through use of two machines, they go through the vicious cycle of adding stars and removing stars to try to fit in. By the end, they decide it doesn’t matter who has a star and who doesn’t and all are friends. We related this to America’s past. Danny, again, had two awesome sessions today. He was actively engaged, attentive, and asking appropriate questions. He maintained interactive discourse throughout and kept his story-telling to a minimum. He interpreted and responded appropriately to directives to continue on with our activity. We’ve been able to discuss concepts longer and deeper in both subjects these past two days. Simply fantastic!