Authors - November 1

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Monday, November 1, 2021

Today is Author's Day, Cinnamon Day, Dia de Los Muertos, National Calzone Day, National Family Literacy Day, and Prime Meridian Day.

November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month, National Family Literacy Month, National Novel Writing Month, Picture Book Month, Native American Heritage Month, Manatee Awareness Month, and Historic Bridge Awareness Month.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - Our New Hampshire - People of the Dawn - VIEW

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

• 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
• 1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1611- Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1800 - John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the White House.
• 1848 - The first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School, opens.
• 1861 -  Lincoln names George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army.
• 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau makes its first meteorological prediction.
• 1938 - Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century."
• 1952 - The U.S. detonates the first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.
• 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - Black physician and abolitionist Caroline Still Anderson
• 1849 - Artist William Merritt Chase
• 1871 - Novelist and poet Stephen Crane
• 1957 - Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett
• 1962 - Singer-songwriter Anthony Kiedis
• 1972 - Australian actor Toni Collette

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Beatles - Paperback Writer - LISTEN
• Elvis Costello  - Everyday I Write the Book - LISTEN

THEME: AUTHORS

• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Linda Sue Park - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-7- PBS LearningMedia - Candace Flemming - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 PBS LearningMedia - Patricia & Frederick McKissack - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosemary Wells  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Katherine Paterson - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-9- PBS LearningMedia - Jerry Spinelli - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-9- PBS LearningMedia - Shannon Hale - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-9- PBS LearningMedia - Anita Silvey - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Author Series - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Harper Lee - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women' - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Philip Roth: Unmasked- VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Book View Now Collection - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Author Visits - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Author Imprint Series - VIEW
• Grades 9-11 - PBS LearningMedia - Laurie Halse Anderson - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Lit - The Case for Fan Fiction - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters - Breaking Barriers - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS Learning Media - American Experience - Meet Willa Cather - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Phillip Roth -  I Work Every Day  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-adult- Learner.org - American Passages: A Literary Survey Video Course - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-adult - Learner.org - Voices and Visions Video Course (poets)  - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Jigonsaseh/I Am Sacagawea
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Buster Isn't Buying It/One Ornery Critter
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Mystery Of The Mini Monkey Models
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Sparks' Unplugged / Camp Catastrophe
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Alma's Showstopper/Ultimate Helper
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Blue Orleans/Bonjour, Au Revoir, Adios
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - Plants Got The Moves/Magnet Mania
• 10-11:30 pm NHPBS - P.O.V. - North By Current

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-1 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Armed with Language
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Water You Doing?/Thinking About Blinking
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - Sparks' Unplugged / Camp Catastrophe
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Invasion Of The Flutterbugs/Ballet Of The Bells
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Didgeridoo And Carmen Too/Not Home On The Range
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Haunt Squad/Safe House In The Woods
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - Secrets Of The Spider's Web
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Molly of Denali - Going Toe To Toe With A Dinosaur/Sassy Ladies On Ice

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nature - Season Of The Osprey

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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