Star Wars

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Today is Intergalactic Star Wars Day, International Firefighters Day, National Teacher Day, and World Asthma Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Theme: Star Wars
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ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III
• 1904 - The U.S. begins constructing the Panama Canal.
• 1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
• 1953 - Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1959 - The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
  1951 - The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1970 - The Ohio National Guard opens fire on a group of anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.
• 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1826 - Painter Frederic Edwin Church
• 1929 - Actor Audrey Hepburn
• 1979 - Singer Lance Bass

SONG OF THE DAY 

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Ohio - LISTEN

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asian Americans in Military Service during WWII 

THEME:  Star Wars

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Star S'mores- VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - C3PO and R2D2 Visit Sesame Street - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Star Wars Song - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performance of the Theme from Star Wars - VIEW
  
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - A 'May the Fourth' Musical Tribute -VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - National Air and Space Museum - Star Wars: The Magic of Myth Exhibit - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - SHANKS FX - Stop-Motion Star Wars - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBD Video - SHANKS FX - How to Create Star Wars Lightsaber Sound Effects - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - The Real Star Wars - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Teaching Star Wars with the NY Times Collection - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Star Wars Decoded - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Art of the Star Wars Costumes - VIEW

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• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Equal & Equivalent
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Dividing Rational Numbers
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD -  Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Describing Trends In Scatter Plots
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra I -How Many Solutions?
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Follow The Water
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Reconstruction: America After The Civil War
• 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Far East Deep South
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontline - Escaping Eritrea
  

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