BLACK HISTORY MONTH
SOCIAL VALUES
Discuss if the following shocking current facts are true or false. 10'
- During the last year only 15% of the students in the US were Black or Latino
- Interracial marriage in the United States was banned in 1664 and not overturned until 1967
- Last year, more than 70.000 immigrants arrived to the southern coasts of Europe in dinghies.
- Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to suffer a pregnancy-related death
Here you are the list with the thematic vocabulary on the topic.
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Listen to parts of the Martin Luther King's speech I have a dream and answer to some comprehension questions. Adaptation from The Guardian.
Graded version. Use the transcript.
I have a 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 of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state 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 little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, 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.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and before the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the mount with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the genuine discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, pray together; to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom forever, )mowing that we will be free one day.
And I say to you today my friends, let freedom ring. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the mighty Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only there; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain in Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill in Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we're free at last!"
Comprehension questions:
- What do they say about states such as Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama?
- What dreams do they mention? List them.
- What will all citizens do when the Black community is free?
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In pairs, choose one of these minority groups from the list provided and write a paragraph in which you explain their situation in society nowadays. 15'
The Samis
LGTB+ groups
Black community
Asian Community
Muslims
Disabled people
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