Thomas Jefferson

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Today is Scrabble Day, Thomas Jefferson Day, and National Peach Cobbler Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Thomas Jefferson
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ON THIS DATE

• 1598 - King Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes, granting rights to the Protestant Huguenots.
• 1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1870 - Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
• 1873 - More than 60 Black men are murdered in the Colfax Massacre in Colfax, Louisiana.
• 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1964 -  Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
• 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes.
• 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1570 - English soldier Guy Fawkes
• 1743 - 3rd President of the U.S. Thomas Jefferson
• 1769 - English painter Sir Thomas Lawrence
• 1828 - English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler
• 1854 - Educator Lucy Craft Laney
• 1892 - Scottish engineer Robert Watson-Watt
• 1899 - Game designer (Scrabble) and architect Alfred Mosher Butts
• 1902 - Author Marguerite Henry
• 1906 - Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett
• 1909 - Novelist and short story writer Eudora Welty
• 1929 - Golfer Marilynn Smith
• 1939 - Irish writer Seamus Heaney
• 9146 - Singer-songwriter Al Green
• 1963 - Russian chess player Garry Kasparov

SONG OF THE DAY 

Al  Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Lorine Niedecker - Thomas Jefferson

THEME:  THOMAS JEFFERSON

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Thomas Jefferson Needs a Quill - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Monticello Digital Classroom - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 3-8 - BrainPop - Educator Resources for Thomas Jefferson - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - ICivics - Thomas Jefferson Mini-Lesson (need to register as an educator to access) - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - Thomas Jefferson - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns - Excerpts - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - EDSITEment - Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers Lesson - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Thomas Jefferson and the Sedition Act Lesson - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty - VIEW

Watch 

• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Finding This Percent Of That
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Interpreting Negative Numbers
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Tables, Equations
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra I - Standard Form And Factored Form
• 2-3 pm NH WOR:D - Prehistoric Road Trip - Welcome To Fossil Country
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Chasing The Moon: American Experience
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Ruby Ridge: American Experience
• 10-11:30 pm NHPBS - Frontline - American Insurrection
  

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