Black Poets - October 17

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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Today is Black Poetry Day, National Pasta Day, and National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day.

This is National Metric Week, Earth Science Week, and Teen Read Week.

October is Apple Month, Chili Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Country Music Month, National Arts & Humanities Month, Bat Appreciation Month, and Raptor Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Black Poets
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ON THIS DATE

• 1777 - British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, NY.
• 1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1814 - Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
• 1931 - Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
• 1933 - Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany.
• 1979 - The US Department of Education is created.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1859 - Artist Childe Hassam
• 1915 - Playwright Arthur Miller
• 1918 - Actor Rita Hayworth
• 1962 - Animator and director Mike Judge
• 1972 - Rapper Eminem

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Doobie Brothers -  Another Park, Another Sunday - LISTEN
• The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday - LISTEN

THEME: BLACK POETS

• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  A Walk Through Harlem -Symbolism in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (0:58)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Langston Hughes - Harlem (5:51) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Gwendolyn Brooks - To Prisoners (5:56) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gwendolyn Brooks: The Creative Person (1966) (29:09) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gwendolyn Brooks: Still ‘Real Cool’ at 100 (5:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gwendolyn Brooks Reads  "We Real Cool" (5:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Weekly Poem: Rita Dove Reads 'Chocolate' ():37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience -Maya Angelou and the 1993 Inaugural Poem: “On the Pulse of Morning” (4:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rita Dove - "American Smooth" (1:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Rita Dove Interview (7:36) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Book View Now - Rita Dove Interview (18:43) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Lucille Clifton - "won't you celebrate with me" (0:46)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Kwame Dawes -  "Tornado Child" (1:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Yusef Komunyakaa - "Facing It" (1:18) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Overheard with Evan Smith - Nikki Giovanni (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Write Around the Corner - Nikki Giovanni (27:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Nikki Giovanni reads ‘The Lost Cause ... Lost’ (1:07) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Write Around the Corner - A Continued Conversation with Nikki Giovanni (29:53) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Nikki Giovanni On Poetry & Truth (58:49) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Connections - Poet Nikky Finney (26:42)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Book View Now - Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric (9:14) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Author Claudia Rankine Answers Questions About ‘Citizen’  (5:59)- VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Langston Hughes on Trial (4:39) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Audre Lorde (6:33)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Passages - Rhythms in Poetry - VIEW

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• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Let's Go Luna!
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Arthur
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Curious George
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Nature Cat
• 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls
• 9:30-10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase
• 10-10:30 am NHPBS - Odd Squad
• 2-3 pm NHPBS - Nova
• 3-4 pm NHPBS - Life from Above
• 4-5 pm NHPBS - Impossible Builds
• 5-6 pm NHPBS - Impossible Builds
• 6-7 pm NHPBS - Eyes on the Prize
• 7-8 pm NHPBS -  Eyes on the Prize

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Impossible Builds
• 9-10 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Nova
• 10-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Life from Above

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• 9-10:30  am NH WORLD -  America ReFramed
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nature

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