Rice and Donald Hall - September 20

Grains of Learning and Poetry

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

• Today is IT Professionals Day, Fried Rice Day, Pepperoni Pizza Day, String Cheese Day, and National Gibberish Day.
• September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.
  
  
• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: Latino Americans:  Peril and Promise - Episode 6
  
  
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - People in Your Neighborhood - Conductor

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  RICE and DONALD HALL
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ON THIS DATE

• 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
• 1962 - The University of Mississippi bars James Meredith from entering because he is Black.
• 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match.
• 1973 - Singer Jim Croce and five others die when their plane crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• 2001 - President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror" in an address to a joint session of Congress.
• 2011 - The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
• 2017 -  Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico, leading to nearly 3,000 deaths and over 90 billion dollars in damages.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1898 - Writer Upton Sinclair
• 1917 - Basketball coach Red Auerbach
• 1928 - Poet and NH resident Donald Hall
• 1934 - Actor Sophia Loren
• 1948 - Writer George R. R. Martin
• 1951 - Hockey player Guy Lafleur

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle - LISTEN
  
• Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown - LISTEN

THEME: RICE

• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Rice and Beans from Mexico (2:00) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Jambalaya from New Orleans, USA (2:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Onigiri Rice Balls from Japan (2:00)- VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-4 - Crayola - RIce is All Around Us - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Fact or Fiction: Uncooked Rice is Bad for Birds (4:29) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Can New Rice Improve Health in the Philippines? (8:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Pamela Ronald Has Developed a More Flood-Tolerant Rice (1:30) - LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - Nova - Miracle of Rice - READ
• Grades 7-12 - EDSITEment - BackStory: What’s Cooking? A History of Food in America PodCast - LISTEN (Rice:16:30-25:20 mark)
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - America's Heartland  - Harvesting Rice (2:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - A Chef's Life - Amber Waves of Grain - VIEW (24:40)

THEME: DONALD HALL

• Grades K-4 - Reading Rainbow - Ox-Cart Man (28:11)  - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Donald Hall Reads Ox-Cart Man (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Lorne Green Reads Ox-Cart Man (6:56) - VIEW
• Grades 2-3 - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Ox-Cart Man Lesson - DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Donald Hall Saw Poetry As a School For Learning (3:14) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Media Meet - Poet Laureate Donald Hall (29:05) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Authors - Donald Hall (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Poetry Foundation - Donald Hall - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Academy of American Poets - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Donald Hall - READ

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THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST - Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)
Tuesday, 9/20 from 8:00-10:22 pm NHPBS
As World War II begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Nazi Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews. THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST Streaming Video

NEANDERTHAL
Tuesday, 9/20 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Follow Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, Ella Al- Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, and a group of experts who create, for the first time ever, a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal. NEANDERTHAL Streaming Video

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