Year 9 SEN
Higher Order Thinking Skills: Martin Luther King
Aims
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Materials
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To enable students to use Higher Order Thinking
Skills.
To consider the image of Martin Luther King.
To promote communication between the individual
students.
Mystery Cards (in images) on Martin Luther King
Question cards.
OHT: Martin Luther King Cartoon
Observation sheet
Key words
Martin Luther King, Mysteries.
Board prep
None. Leave for OHT.
Intro:
Starter
activity
0-20
Exposition
20-25
Individual
and
collective.
25-50
Put the students in to pairs. Give one of the pair some
plain paper and a pencil. The student with the paper must
turn their backs to the whiteboard. The other student
needs to be sitting opposite their partner so that they can
see the white board. Put up the OHT of the cartoon. Their
task is to describe the picture to their partner with the
plain paper. The other student has to then draw the
picture from the description. Give them 5-10 minutes to
do this. When the time is up get them to all face the
whiteboard. Feedback on the interpretations of the
cartoon. Also discuss how they completed the task and
what made the task hard.
Explain that the students are going to look at what people
thought about Martin Luther King.
Put the students in to groups of three. Handout the
mystery cards (in images) and the question cards. Each
group then has 20 minutes to use the cards to answer the
following question; ‘Was Martin Luther King a good man?’
As a class go over what the question means. Explain that
they need to categorise the cards so that they can gain an
effective answer to the question. Highlight that some
cards are irrelevant. Give each group an observation sheet.
Explain that while they are working one person needs to
write down what they have done to reach an answer. At
the bottom of the sheet they need to bullet point their
answer to the question.
Summary
Homework
50-60
Feedback on each groups answer. Discuss how they
approached the task.
None