{"id":435,"date":"2012-01-18T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/?p=435"},"modified":"2012-01-18T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:28:37","slug":"martin-luther-king-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2012\/01\/18\/martin-luther-king-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, January 16th it was Martin Luther King Day.\u00a0 Although this is celebrated in the US, it is also significant to Canadians and Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p>Division 3 and 4 have been learning about the biography genre.\u00a0 One of the biographies introduced last week was Martin Luther King Jr.\u00a0 However, most students were unfamiliar with him and his accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Today Division 3 heard <em>Martin&#8217;s Big Words<\/em> in the library.\u00a0 It is a picture book biography that gives important background information to the civil rights movement and Dr. King.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/titlepeek.fsc.follett.com\/tp\/query?action=3&amp;subnumber=6014935&amp;isbn=0786807148&amp;appid=4\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\"Click for more information on this title\" src=\"http:\/\/library.sd41.bc.ca\/passthrough?image=34537\/0786807148.gif\" alt=\"Click for more information on this title\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekingcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The King Center <\/a>site and watched a clip of Dr. King&#8217;s famous &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachertube.com\/viewVideo.php?video_id=20916\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to see the teachertube version.<\/p>\n<p>Other great books related to this subject:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/titlepeek.fsc.follett.com\/tp\/query?action=3&amp;subnumber=6014935&amp;isbn=0756603420&amp;appid=4\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\"Click for more information on this title\" src=\"http:\/\/library.sd41.bc.ca\/passthrough?image=34537\/0756603420.gif\" alt=\"Click for more information on this title\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/titlepeek.fsc.follett.com\/tp\/query?action=3&amp;subnumber=6014935&amp;isbn=9781404208582&amp;appid=4\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\"Click for more information on this title\" src=\"http:\/\/library.sd41.bc.ca\/passthrough?image=34537\/9781404208582.gif\" alt=\"Click for more information on this title\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come and see Mrs. Araujo in the library if you would like to check out these books on Martin Luther King Jr. or any other biographies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, January 16th it was Martin Luther King Day.\u00a0 Although this is celebrated in the US, it is also significant to Canadians and Canadian history. Division 3 and 4 have been learning about the biography genre.\u00a0 One of the biographies introduced last week was Martin Luther King Jr.\u00a0 However, most students were unfamiliar with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2012\/01\/18\/martin-luther-king-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Martin Luther King Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}