Seneca Falls Convention - July 19

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Seneca Falls Convention

ON THIS DATE

• 64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome begins. It lasts for six days, destroying half the city.
• 1848 -  A women's rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
• 1903 - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
• 2005 -  President George W. Bush announces he has selected John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1817 - Civil War nurse and veterans advocate Mary Ann Bickerdyke 
• 1834 - French artist Edgar Degas
• 1860 - Accused murderer Lizzie Borden
• 1875 - Poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson
• 1922 - Politician and presidential candidate George McGovern
• 1947 - English musician, Queen guitarist, and astrophysicist Brian May
• 1976 - English actor Benedict Cumberbatch

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
• Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - LISTEN
• Beyonce - Run the World (Girls) - LISTEN
• Brian May - Love of My Life  - LISTEN
• Queen - We Will Rock You - LISTEN

THEME: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION

• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights - Seneca Falls, NY (6:10) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Seneca Falls Convention: The Suffrage Movement Begins (2:51) - Carrie Chapman Catt - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vote - Seneca Falls Convention (4:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention (10:16) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Declaration of Sentiments: Close Reading Activity -  READ and DO
• Grades 8-12 - Library of Congress - Seneca Falls Convention - READ
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Closer Readings Commentary - The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848) - VIEW, READ,  DO
• Grades 9-12 - C-SPAN - Lesson Plan: The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments (5:16) - VIEW, READ, DO

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