Frankenstein

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Friday, October 30, 2020

Today is Frankenstein Friday, International Bandanna Day, and National Candy Corn Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme

ON THIS DATE

• 1831 - Nat Turner is arrested for leading a slave rebellion in Virginia.
• 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.
• 1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
• 2003 - Lebron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• 2005 -  Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1632 - English architect Christopher Wren
• 1735 - Second president of the U.S. John Adams
• 1839 - French painter Alfred Sisley
• 1885 - Poet Ezra Pound
• 1896 - Actor and screenwriter Ruth Gordon
• 1915 - Broadcast journalist Fred Friendly 
• 1932 - French director Louis Malle
• 1939 - Singer Grace Slick
• 1945 - Actor Henry Winkler
• 1946 - Journalist Andrea Mitchell
• 1981 -  Ivanka Trump

SONGS OF THE DAY 
The Crystals - Frankenstein Twist - LISTEN
Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash - LISTEN

THEME:  Frankenstein

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Back and Front Frankenstein - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - I am Mary Shelley/I am Harry Houdini (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - How Did Mary Shelley Write Scary Stories? - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - Mary Shelley Reader - READ and DO
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Its Okey to Be Smart - The Real "Doctor Frankenstein" - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Frankenstein - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Allison Williams Explains Her Love for Frankenstein's Monster - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Monstrum - Rethinking Frankenstein's Monster - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Drama - Frankenstein - LISTEN and VIEW
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Great American Read -  Frankenstein: Analyzing Creative Works of Fiction Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Exploring the Drive to Create in Frankenstein Interactive - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read -Frankenstein: The Consequence of Creation Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Grade 6 - Introducing Double Number Line Diagrams
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Grade 7 - Using Equations To Solve Problems
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD -  Illustrative Math - Grade 8 -  More Balanced Moves
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra 1 - How Does It Change?
• 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD - Poetry In America - Fast Break - Edward Hirsch
• 2:30-4 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - Inventing Tomorrow
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Ursula K. Le Guin: American Masters
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Love Wins Over Hate
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - The Choice 2020: Trump Vs. Biden
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - EXHUMED: A History of Zombies

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