Immigrants - November 12
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Immigrants
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- 1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes baseball's first commissioner.
- 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party and Josef Stalin becomes the leader of the Soviet Union.
- 1954 - Ellis Island ends operations as an immigrant processing center.
- 1097 - The Oregon Highway Division unwisely attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives.
- 1980 - NASA space probe Voyager I takes the first images of Saturn's rings.
- 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 1815 - Women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- 1840 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin
- 1929 - Actor Grace Kelly
- 1934 - Cult leader Charles Manson
- 1943 - Actor Wallace Shawn
- 1945 - Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young
- 1970 - Figure skater Tonya Harding
- 1982 - Actor Anne Hathaway
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song - LISTEN- Neil Diamond - America - LISTEN
- K'naan featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product -
Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) - LISTEN - Irish Tenors - Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears - LISTEN
- Neil Young - Old Man - LISTEN
- Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Becoming a Citizen (10:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 2-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Faces of America Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Statue of Liberty - The Promise (3:37) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Statue of Liberty - Reactions to Arrival in the U.S. (3:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Triangle Fire: Immigrant Workers & the American Dream (1:15) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Teaching the Stories of the Immigration Debate Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Stepping Up: Immigration Issues with Walter (2:35) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Is There Really an Immigration "Line" to Wait In? (5:07) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - Ellis Island - READ and DO
- /Grade 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans - Angel Island and the Chinese Exclusion Act (5:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Prohibition - Immigrant Invasion (1:53) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Immigrant Stories Revealed (26:40) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Retro Report -Exploring the Recent History of U.S. Immigration Backlashes (9:52) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Zero Tolerance (54:17) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - Annenberg Learner - The Constitution: That Delicate Balance - Immigration Reform (57:43) - VIEW, READ, DO
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