In this video, students were asked to read and analyze text from the Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. In order to have the students engage in a deeper level of thinking from this text, TJ Hanify(teacher) developed different strategies to keep their interest. First students must read the Letter from Birmingham and create notes from their findings. Students must include the main idea of the author’s purpose and any questions or concerns students might have. The next strategy Hanify identifies is putting students in groups to analyze the text and explore the central idea. This will allow students to acknowledge the information that helps build towards the main idea. Following that Hanify will ask students to present their
