In preparation for her school's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Elizabeth Brown developed an integrated language arts and social studies one-week unit of study on the civil rights movement, where she reinforced reading, writing, and speaking skills. The overarching goals for the five-day lesson on Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, was for fourth graders to understand that, historically, and currently, discrimination has been and continues to be an obstacle to many groups, and that progress against discrimination has been the result of mobilization by citizen activists. As a result of the lesson, students were expected to: (1) Define segregation and discrimination; (2) Identify historical or current evidence of discrimination or segregation; (3) Make meaning of a text, using sensory details, vocabulary, and figurative language; and (4) Make personal connections to a historical text through speaking and writing. Over the course of 5 days, Brown engaged students in an analysis of the text where they: (1) identified and defined rich vocabulary; (2) created visual representations of figurative language and sensory details; (3) questioned the text; (4) made text-to-self connections; and (5) responded to the text in writing. Each day's activities assisted the students' comprehension of the messages embedded within the text. After discussing the speech and reading their essays, Brown was impressed by students' insights about current discriminatory behaviors and inequities.