Friday, January 16, 2009

Week Seven: Preparing for MLK

We had a busy week getting ready for our field trips to the Martin Luther King Service Summit and the MLK Day of Service on MLK Day (It's a day ON!)

On Tuesday, Everyday Leaders prepared for the weekend by watching parts of the PBS special, Citizen King. Citizen King is a great documentary not only highlighting Martin Luther King's more notable accomplishments, but it goes beyond the I Have a Dream speech into more of his work with the Poor Peoples' Campaign as well as his opposition the Vietnam War. We a held a group discussion following the film.

On Thursday, students started to prepare for their day of service by making their own chemical-free all purpose cleaners and glass cleaners. Students will take these with them to clean senior's apartments at the Wheat Street Towers in the King District. Students also completed their final day of online research for project ideas for their Global Youth Service Day project.

Looking forward to the weekend!

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