If you know someone who has made significant and public contributions in any of the following categories, we invite you to nominate that person by virtue of a letter of recommendation. Members of the Task Force will review every nomination and select the honorees. They will be presented with their award at the 2024 MLK Community Breakfast and Celebration on Monday, January 15, 2024.
The awards and criteria are as follows:
2024 MLK Community Building Award:
- Nominees should be persons who have made significant contributions in building a sense of unity among Hamblen County citizens.
- Nominees should have publicly demonstrated their ability in building a stronger, more inclusive community through identifiable activities and programs.
2024 MLK Award for Advancing Cultural Awareness
- Nominees should demonstrate both an appreciation for diversity and inclusion and possess and use his/her/their skills in building and maintaining harmonious cross-cultural relationships through cultural activities or programs.
- Nominees shall have accomplished specific cultural initiatives that foster Dr. King’s vision of unity among people of diverse backgrounds.
2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Service and Advocacy
- Nominees should be persons engaged in providing services and/or advocacy for the human rights of those marginalized because of poverty, race or ethnicity, national origin, gender, age or any other reason.
- Nominees shall have publicly demonstrated and accomplished goals which have given voice and visibility to those who are marginalized.
Send the name of the nominee, the award you believe he or she deserves, his or her contact information and a letter of recommendation to
Dr. Alpha Alexander
230 Montrose Ave
Morristown, TN 37813-5259
The deadline for receiving nominations is January 8, 2024
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Prompt for K-Grade 12
The following quotes are from Martin Luther King Jr. Please see the following MLK grade guidelines and tell us what your thoughts and action would be for yourself from his quotes. How can his quotes aspire you to do something for the Morristown Community?
Grades K-2 essay or drawn picture
1. “If you can’t fly then run, If you can’t run then walk, If you can’t walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward”.
Grades 3-5
2. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Grades 6-8
3. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
Grade 9-12
4. Everything in the world is interconnected. For example, unhealthy living anywhere leads to lower productivity and increased health care costs which affects your business, workplace, health insurance premium, government, etc. and, in turn, your health. So, if a part of the population does not have access to healthy food, opportunity to exercise and affordable healthcare, you eventually will be affected. A healthy society benefits everyone.
Guidelines
Length and style:
K-2 – May be submitted in words or pictures
Grades 3-5 – An essay between 150-200 words
Grades 6-8 – An essay between 250-350 words
Grades 9-12 – An essay not to exceed 500 words
Format:
The essay may be handwritten or produced on a computer in 12 pt font
Submitting the essays: Individual essays should be accompanied by a separate but completed entry form, copy attached. If submissions are coming from a class in school, we ask that teachers number each essay from the class and include entry forms with numbers which match the essays in a separate folder or envelope.
Copyright: All essays become the property of MTFD which reserves the right to publish all essays.
Judging Criteria:
Download Grades K-2 Scoring Rubrics
Download Grades 3-12 Scoring Rubrics
Prizes:
A cash prize of $200 will be awarded to the winner in each age group. K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Winners and at least one adult family member will be expected to attend the Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast at First United Methodist Church at 9:00 am, to present his or her essay.
Deadline for Entries is January 8, 2024
Submit to Hamblen County School Board main front desk office
Others should mail to: Morristown Task Force on Diversity, ℅ Morristown Task Force on Diversity, 230 Montrose Ave, Morristown, TN 37813
Essays with entry form information can be E-mailed to: morristowndiversitytaskforce@gmail.com
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2024 MLK Essay Prompts
Prompt for K-Grade 12
The following quotes are from Martin Luther King Jr. Please see the following MLK grade guidelines and tell us what your thoughts and action would be for yourself from his quotes. How can his quotes aspire you to do something for the Morristown Community?
Grades K-2 essay or drawn picture
1. “If you can’t fly then run, If you can’t run then walk, If you can’t walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward”.
Grades 3-5
2. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Grades 6-8
3. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
Grade 9-12
4. Everything in the world is interconnected. For example, unhealthy living anywhere leads to lower productivity and increased health care costs which affects your business, workplace, health insurance premium, government, etc. and, in turn, your health. So, if a part of the population does not have access to healthy food, opportunity to exercise and affordable healthcare, you eventually will be affected. A healthy society benefits everyone.
Guidelines
Length and style:
K-2 – May be submitted in words or pictures
Grades 3-5 – An essay between 150-200 words
Grades 6-8 – An essay between 250-350 words
Grades 9-12 – An essay not to exceed 500 words
Format:
Download Entry Form
The essay may be handwritten or produced on a computer in 12 pt font
Submitting the essays: Individual essays should be accompanied by a separate but completed entry form, copy attached. If submissions are coming from a class in school, we ask that teachers number each essay from the class and include entry forms with numbers which match the essays in a separate folder or envelope.
Copyright: All essays become the property of MTFD which reserves the right to publish all essays.
Judging Criteria:
Download Grades K-2 Scoring Rubrics
Download Grades 3-12 Scoring Rubrics
Prizes:
A cash prize of $200 will be awarded to the winner in each age group. K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Winners and at least one adult family member will be expected to attend the Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast at First United Methodist Church at 9:00 am, to present his or her essay.
Deadline for Entries is January 8, 2024
Submit to Hamblen County School Board main front desk office
Others should mail to: Morristown Task Force on Diversity, ℅ Morristown Task Force on Diversity, 230 Montrose Ave, Morristown, TN 37813
Essays with entry form information can be E-mailed to: morristowndiversitytaskforce@gmail.com